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Announcement: 4th CRRAR Summer Institute on Argumentation

December 13, 2012 by SP

4th Summer Institute On Argumentation:-

Multi‐Modal Arguments: Making sense of images (and other non‐verbal content) in Argument

May 22-25, 2013

  • Can works of art, films, virtual realities and other kinds of non-verbal content operate as arguments?
  • Why have some objected to this suggestion? What can we learn from their objections?
  • How can the various theoretical perspectives that make up argumentation theory, such as informal logic, rhetoric, dialectics, dialogue theory, and discourse analysis, account for multi-modal arguments?
  • How can we construct a comprehensive theory of argument that makes room for, explains, and allows us to assess, arguments of this sort?

In conjunction with the tenth OSSA (Ontario Society for the Study of Argument) conference, CRRAR will offer a summer institute on multimodal arguments.

One trend in the development of argumentation theory is an  increasingly broad conception of argument which recognizes (among other things) the use of “multi-modal”  elements – images, music, and other non-verbal components – as key components of many arguments. In this course we consider the questions that this raises.

Lectures and discussion will emphasize the development of perspectives that can be used to analyze, explain and evaluate such arguments, and on the analysis of concrete examples of multi-modal arguments and will consider objections to “visual arguments” and other forms of multi-modal argumentation. Continue Reading »

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CFP: International Conference, Rhetoric: Between the Theory and Practice of Politics

December 13, 2012 by SP

RHETORIC, BETWEEN THE THEORY AND PRACTICE OF POLITICS

 

International Conference

 

CEHUM, University of Minho

Braga, Portugal 

June 21-22, 2013

 

 Call for papers

As one of the consequences of the lingering process of corrosion of the rationalist assumptions of the Enlightenment project, in the last decades we have witnessed an attempt in different areas of the humanities to revive the central role rhetoric used to have in antiquity. Despite its political origins, however, the contribution of political theory to this important endeavour has only come of late, as more and more theorists have started to expose the rhetorical nature of politics in multiple manners: showing how it can be used to offer more sophisticated accounts of public deliberation, more attentive toward emotive aspects and contexts; or revealing it as an important manifestation of practical reason; or studying its presence in canonical thinkers and critical moments in the history of political thought; or finally, taking it as an inspiring source for a post-foundationalist emancipatory political theory.

This variety of approaches testifies to the pervasiveness of the rhetorical dimensions in the whole realm of politics, from action to theory. The aim of this conference is to bring together scholars coming from disciplines such as political theory, philosophy, history, literature, or communication, to debate the multifaceted significance of rhetoric in politics and to explore new ways to incorporate a ‘rhetorical perspective’ in the study of political thought. Our hope is that this event could offer an important moment to assess and foster the still incipient revival of rhetoric in this area. Continue Reading »

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CFP: Rhetoric in Europe

December 13, 2012 by SP

Call for Papers –

International Conference 2013 – Rhetoric in Europe

Call for Papers
International Conference 2013 – Rhetoric in Europe
9.-13.10.2013 / Universität des Saarlandes / Université du Luxembourg

In autumn 2013, a conference on rhetoric will take place at the University of Saarland and the University Luxemburg. This conference will be international and multidisciplinary. The central theme of the symposium is ‘Rhetoric in Europe’. At the same time, we examine what is European in rhetoric and what is rhetorical in Europe. Because 2013 is an anniversary year in the history of rhetoric, the conference will be held in 2013. Presumably, 387 AC, 2400 years ago, Isocrates founded his school of rhetoric and philosophy.

Since antiquity, rhetoric has reigned as one of the great European traditions in education. Currently, as the importance of media of all kind is growing in daily communication, rhetoric is prevailing as an educational topic. The importance of intercultural communication is growing internationally as well as domestically, economically, and politically. Often political changes (from war, refugees, work migration, economical pressure, etc.) impact the crisis that the education system aggravates, (especially in the primary and secondary area), and this not since PISA. The worlds of work, along with public and everyday life, are altered since political (1989/1990), cultural (1968 and again 1989/90), and economical changes are not initiated, but accelerated by the globalization. Even this raw draft shows that schools, universities and adult education have important tasks and responsibili- ties in the formation of qualified teachers, university professors, and adult educators as well as in the research that is the basis for these formations. Because communication is the central category of the intercultural, medial, interpersonal problem, rhetoric is needed urgently in the mediation of “communication competence”, since media rhetoric, economical rhetoric, intercultural rhetoric, political rhetoric, and forensic rhetoric can advance the sectoral rhetorics at will. Continue Reading »

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Call for Submissions: Special Issue, Journal of Argumentation in Context

December 13, 2012 by SP

Call for Submissions

Special Issue of Journal of Argumentation in Context: Argumentation in Interpersonal Relationships

Argumentation scholars from the communication field have been interested in studying arguments between friends, lovers, ex-spouses, co-workers, task group members, and family members in face-to-face, online, court-ordered mediation, and numerous other contexts. A growing number of researchers in a variety of argumentation related disciplines are paying attention to the ways in which people manage disagreements while managing their relationship. We welcome submissions from any field of inquiry using any methodology appropriate to the research question. We are especially interested in papers examining argumentation in close personal relationships such as married couples, family members, co-workers, and friends. The editor for the special issue is Harry Weger from the University of Central Florida. All submissions should be emailed to him at Harry.Weger@ucf.edu. Deadline for submissions is February 1, 2013.

Editorial Policy for the Special Issue

The following procedures should be followed when submitting manuscripts:

  • Only electronic submissions will be considered.
  • Manuscripts should be prepared using MS Word and should be submitted as a doc or docx file.
  • The manuscript should include a title page without any information that identifies the author(s) and a separate title page that includes the names of all contributing authors, contact information, and academic affiliations.
  • If the manuscript reports statistical analyses of data, the authors should follow all conventions listed in the 6th edition of the American Psychological Association style manual for reporting reliability of measurement instruments, formatting and reporting of statistical tests, and formatting of tables and figures. All statistical tests of significance should include appropriate effect sizes, whether or not the tests meet conventional levels of significance.
  • Manuscripts should not exceed about 5,000 words excluding references, notes, and tables.
  • All manuscripts will be read by the editor of the special issue and at least one other scholar with expertise in the area.

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CFP: ICAIL 2013

December 13, 2012 by SP

14th International Conference on
Artificial Intelligence & Law (ICAIL 2013)
June 10 – June 14, 2013
ITTIG-CNR
Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (National Research Council of Italy)
Rome, Italy
http://icail2013.ittig.cnr.it

Sponsored by:
The International Association for Artificial Intelligence and Law (IAAIL)
ITTIG-CNR

Call for Papers, Workshop Proposals and Demonstrations

The field of AI and Law is concerned with:

* the study of legal reasoning using computational methods
* the study of AI and other advanced information technologies, using
law as an example domain
* formal models of norms, normative systems, norm-governed societies
* legal and quasi-legal applications of AI and other advanced
information technologies

The ICAIL conference is the primary international conference
addressing research in Artificial Intelligence and Law, and has been
organized biennially since 1987 under the auspices of the
International Association for Artificial Intelligence and Law (IAAIL).
ICAIL provides a forum for the presentation and discussion of the
latest research results and practical applications; it fosters
interdisciplinary and international collaboration. The conference
proceedings are published by ACM. The journal Artificial Intelligence
and Law regularly publishes expanded versions of selected ICAIL
papers. Continue Reading »

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CFP: Alta 2013

December 13, 2012 by SP

Call for Papers, Panels, and Abstracts
18th Biennial NCA/AFA Conference on Argumentation, 2013
The Cliff Lodge at Snowbird, Alta, UT, August 1-4, 2013.

Theme: Disturbing Argument


…as in argument that disturbs, contains disturbing words or images, or is about disturbing topics; as in argument that disturbs relationships of power; as in theories and approaches that disturb traditional approaches to  argument. So, “disturbing” is quite polysemous and polyvalent (if not wholeheartedly equivocal).

All submissions about some aspect of argumentation are welcome and encouraged, but preference will be given to those addressing the conference theme.

Submission Process: Please submit electronic versions of completed papers, panel proposals, or extended abstracts to the Conference Program Planner, Catherine H. Palczewski at the Alta submission website. To access the submission site, go to http://www.altaconference.org and click on the 2013 Conference link.

Deadline for Submissions: Friday, March 1, 2013

Submission Format:  The Alta Conference invites completed papers, panel proposals, and paper abstracts written from any of the methodological approaches to argumentation. A submission’s approach to argumentation may be applied, critical, cross-disciplinary, empirical, interpretive, pedagogical, philosophical, and/or theoretical. We also welcome studies
of arguments in particular domains (e.g., legal, political, interpersonal, scientific, etc.) and forms (e.g., verbal, visual, etc.). Continue Reading »

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CFP: Political Decision and Truth

December 13, 2012 by SP

Political Decision And Truth: Interdisciplinary Symposium
Submission deadline: January 30, 2013
Notification of acceptance: March 30, 2013
Format of proposals: One page (a maximum of 2500 to 3000 characters, including spaces) abstracts – in French or English – should be submitted via email in Word or PDF format.Along with your submission, please attach a short biography, including your contact information, selected publications, and affiliation.
Confirmed invited speakers(provisional list):
  • Bruno Latour (Professor at Sciences Po Paris (Institut d’Études Politiques de Paris))
  • Frédéric Lordon(Research director at CNRS and researcher at CESSP, Paris-Sorbonne)
Scientific committee:
  • Sophie Guérard de Latour (Université Paris I)
  • Laurent Jaffro (Université Paris I)
  • Jean-François Kervégan (Université Paris I / IUF)
  • Catherine Larrère (Université Paris I)
Date and place of event: November 15-16, 2013 – Panthéon-Sorbonne University, Paris, France
Accepted contributed papers will be allocated 30 minutes, plus 15 minutes discussion.
Contact:

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Clay Shirky on Argumentation and Social Change

October 30, 2012 by SP

In this video Clay Shirky discusses how open source programmers channel social media technologies in ways that could, if thoughtfully and creatively adopted, bring about powerful changes in the way that democratic institutions work.  There are a number of features of this talk that should be of interest to argumentation theorists.  Students of pragma-dialectics and others who believe that disagreement is of central theoretical importance to argumentation theory, for instance, will find welcoming Shirky’s assertion that “The more ideas there are in circulation, the more ideas there are for any individual to disagree with. More media always means more arguing.”  Also of interest for those of us interested in the intersection between argumentation theory and democratic theory is Shirky’s account of how the method of distributed version control used by early open source programmers enabled “cooperation without [top-down] coordination”. Perhaps most interesting, though, is Shirky’s description that changes in media bring about cultural changes largely by introducing new modes of argument.

Whether one agrees with everything Shirky says here or not, it is hard to disagree with the fundamental intuition that I think  lies underneath his points:  that argumentation is the core technology of democracy, and that improving democracy means attending, carefully and critically, to the modes in which we argue.

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Video: CRRAR Symposium on the Mercier-Sperber Theory

October 26, 2012 by SP

As many will be aware, two weeks ago the Centre for Research in Reasoning, Argumentation and Rhetoric (CRRAR) hosted a symposium on Mercier and Sperber’s argument-based theory of reasoning at the University of Windsor.  Hugo Mercier himself gave the keynote. The panelists were Ian Hacking, Burkhard Schafer, Mark Aakhus, and Lori Buchanan. The co-chairs were Doug Walton and myself. The event took place over two days. The first day was a public presentation and discussion of the theory. The center of the second day’s events was an open (but moderated) roundtable discussion on the theory in which the speakers, CRRAR fellows, and guests all participated.  Both days saw intense, but very stimulating and rewarding conversations.

Spurred by several requests from abroad, we decided to have the events of the first day recorded so that they could be shared with the entire argumentation studies community. I am pleased to be able to announce that that video is now available.  You can watch it by clicking here. Unfortunately, however, there were technical problems with the camera that resulted in our not having usable video. That said, the audio quality is good and the slides for the keynote presentation are synced so that they can be followed with the talk. The panelists’ responses to the keynote presentations are still included too. They were excellent and are well worth the listening.

Thanks again to all who participated, attended, and in other ways great and small helped to make it a great weekend!

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CFP: 13th International Pragmatics Conference, New Dehli, India

October 17, 2012 by SP

13th International Pragmatics Conference
08.09.13-13.09.13
New Delhi, India

All info and call for papers at http://ipra.ua.ac.be/main.aspx?c=.CONFERENCE13&n=1438.

Note the deadlines:

– 15 June 2012 for early submission of panel proposals (allowing for revision if necessary)
– 15 September 2012, final deadline for panel proposals
– 1 November 2012, deadline for panel contributions, lectures, and posters

Please read the instructions in the ´Call for papers´ carefully well in advance of the deadlines.

The special theme of this edition is Narrative pragmatics: Culture, cognition, context. But as always, the conference is open to ALL OTHER PRAGMATICS-RELATED TOPICS as well (where pragmatics is conceived broadly as a cognitive, social, and cultural perspective on language and communication).

The call for papers for the 13th International Pragmatics Conference is now open. Continue Reading »

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