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<h5 align=center style='text-align:center'><b><font size=2 color="#4b4b4b"
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color:#4B4B4B'><a href="http://www.RhetoricSociety.org" target="_blank">RHETORIC
SOCIETY OF AMERICA</a></span></font><o:p></o:p></b></h5>
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FOR PAPERS<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=1 color="#4b4b4b" face=Verdana><span style='font-size:8.0pt;
font-family:Verdana;color:#4B4B4B'>THE PROMISE OF REASON: <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><i><font size=1 color="#4b4b4b" face=Verdana><span style='font-size:
8.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:#4B4B4B;font-style:italic'>THE NEW
RHETORIC</span></font></i><font size=1 color="#4b4b4b" face=Verdana><span
style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:#4B4B4B'> AFTER FIFTY
YEARS<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceType w:st="on"><font size=1
color="#4b4b4b" face=Verdana><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:
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size=1 color="#4b4b4b" face=Verdana><span style='font-size:8.0pt;
font-family:Verdana;color:#4B4B4B'> of <st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Oregon</st1:PlaceName></span></font></st1:place><font
size=1 color="#4b4b4b" face=Verdana><span style='font-size:8.0pt;
font-family:Verdana;color:#4B4B4B'> – May 17-20, 2008<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=1 color="#4b4b4b" face=Verdana><span style='font-size:8.0pt;
font-family:Verdana;color:#4B4B4B'>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 <i><span style='font-style:
italic'>Le nouvelle rhétorique: Traité de l‘argumentation</span></i>
(1958), one of the most influential twentieth-century rhetorical works. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=1 color="#4b4b4b" face=Verdana><span style='font-size:8.0pt;
font-family:Verdana;color:#4B4B4B'>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:<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=1 color="#4b4b4b" face=Verdana><span style='font-size:8.0pt;
font-family:Verdana;color:#4B4B4B'>· legal argument and justice <br>
· rhetoric and human rights <br>
· ethical rhetoric and communications <br>
· argumentation as a substitute for violence <br>
· international diplomacy and conflict resolution <br>
· rationality and reasonableness in international relations <br>
· negotiated assent in public debate <br>
· opposition and cooperation is conflict situations <br>
· argumentation across cultures <br>
· persuasion and leadership<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=1 color="#4b4b4b" face=Verdana><span style='font-size:8.0pt;
font-family:Verdana;color:#4B4B4B'>Featured speakers at the conference
will include:<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=1 color="#4b4b4b" face=Verdana><span style='font-size:8.0pt;
font-family:Verdana;color:#4B4B4B'>· Jeanne Fahnestock, University of
Maryland <br>
· Alan G. Gross, University of Minnesota <br>
· Michael C. Leff, University of Memphis <br>
· Noemi Mattis Perelman <br>
· Francis J. Mootz III, Dickinson School of Law, Pennsylvania State
University <br>
· Christopher W. Tindale, University of Windsor <br>
· Barbara Warnick, University of Pittsburgh<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=1 color="#4b4b4b" face=Verdana><span style='font-size:8.0pt;
font-family:Verdana;color:#4B4B4B'>250 words abstracts and/or proposals
may be sent electronically via the conference website at: <a
href="http://convention2.allacademic.com/one/perelman/perelman08">http://convention2.allacademic.com/one/perelman/perelman08</a><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=1 color="#4b4b4b" face=Verdana><span style='font-size:8.0pt;
font-family:Verdana;color:#4B4B4B'>DEADLINE FOR SUBMITTING PROPOSALS:
August 3, 2007<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=1 color="#4b4b4b" face=Verdana><span style='font-size:8.0pt;
font-family:Verdana;color:#4B4B4B'>Special features of this conference include:<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=1 color="#4b4b4b" face=Verdana><span style='font-size:8.0pt;
font-family:Verdana;color:#4B4B4B'>· A public "Contrarian
Forum" including a debate by advocates for public policy with
responses on the rhetoric of the debate by conference participants <br>
· Master Classes conducted for graduate and undergraduate students by
conference speakers <br>
· Competitive scholarships for undergraduates to attend the conference
and master classes <br>
· Organized outings to experience Oregon's pleasures: rafting,
wine-tasting, mountain hiking, coastal sight-seeing <br>
· Proximity to the Rhetoric Society of America's annual conference in
Seattle Washington, May 23-26, 2008<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=1 color="#4b4b4b" face=Verdana><span style='font-size:8.0pt;
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website at: <a href="http://www.uoregon.edu/~promreas">www.uoregon.edu/~promreas</a>
or email: <a
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