FW: Call for Papers from University of Oregon (Rhetoric)

[Leila Monaghan]

Please see below for information on responding.

all best,

Leila


RHETORIC SOCIETY OF AMERICA <http://www.RhetoricSociety.org>





CALL FOR PAPERS

THE PROMISE OF REASON:

THE NEW RHETORIC AFTER FIFTY YEARS

University of Oregon - May 17-20, 2008

Faculty and Graduate Students are invited to submit proposals for 
papers and panels for this international conference commemorating the 
fiftieth anniversary of the publication of Chaim Perelman and Lucie 
Olbrechts-Tyteca's Le nouvelle rhétorique: Traité de l'argumentation 
(1958), one of the most influential twentieth-century rhetorical works.

Submissions are welcome dealing with any aspect of Perelman's work and 
influence, or argumentation, informal reasoning, or modern rhetoric in 
general. Interdisciplinary work in rhetoric and/or argumentation theory 
is welcome. Of specific interest are proposals dealing with the 
following:

· legal argument and justice
· rhetoric and human rights
· ethical rhetoric and communications
· argumentation as a substitute for violence
· international diplomacy and conflict resolution
· rationality and reasonableness in international relations
· negotiated assent in public debate
· opposition and cooperation is conflict situations
· argumentation across cultures
· persuasion and leadership

Featured speakers at the conference will include:

· Jeanne Fahnestock, University of Maryland
· Alan G. Gross, University of Minnesota
· Michael C. Leff, University of Memphis
· Noemi Mattis Perelman
· Francis J. Mootz III, Dickinson School of Law, Pennsylvania State University
· Christopher W. Tindale, University of Windsor
· Barbara Warnick, University of Pittsburgh

250 words abstracts and/or proposals may be sent electronically via the 
conference website at: 
http://convention2.allacademic.com/one/perelman/perelman08

DEADLINE FOR SUBMITTING PROPOSALS: August 3, 2007

Special features of this conference include:

· A public "Contrarian Forum" including a debate by advocates for 
public policy with responses on the rhetoric of the debate by 
conference participants
· Master Classes conducted for graduate and undergraduate students by 
conference speakers
· Competitive scholarships for undergraduates to attend the conference 
and master classes
· Organized outings to experience Oregon's pleasures: rafting, 
wine-tasting, mountain hiking, coastal sight-seeing
· Proximity to the Rhetoric Society of America's annual conference in 
Seattle Washington, May 23-26, 2008

For more information, visit our website at: www.uoregon.edu/~promreas 
or email: promreas at uoregon.edu 
<mailto:promreas at uoregon.edu%3c/P%3e%3c/SPAN%3e%3c/SPAN%3e%3c/H5%3e%3c/SPAN%3e>



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Leila Monaghan, PhD
Department of Communication and Culture
Indiana University
Ashton Mottier Hall
1760 E. 10th Street
Bloomington, IN 47405-9700
(812) 855-4607
monaghan at indiana.edu
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