CALL FOR PAPERS FOR THE 7TH ISSA CONFERENCE

From June 29 to July 2, 2010, the 7th Conference on Argumentation of the International Society for the Study of Argumentation (ISSA) will be held at the University of Amsterdam. The aim of the conference is to draw together scholars from a variety of disciplines that are working in the field of argumentation theory.

The keynote speakers are:

Maurice Finocchiaro (University of Nevada, Las Vegas)
James Klumpp (University of Maryland)
James Freeman (Hunter College, City University of New York).

The planning committee of the 7th ISSA Conference invites presentations of original,
non-published work on argumentation. Argumentation theorists, (informal) logicians, discourse analysts, communication scholars, rhetoricians, legal scholars, and other scholars involved in the study of argumentation are all encouraged to take part.

Anyone who wishes to present a paper can submit an abstract in English to the planning committee by sending an e-mail attachment to issa-fgw@uva.nl. Abstracts (ca. 250 words), prepared for blind refereeing, must be submitted in Word no later than November 1, 2009. All abstracts should be accompanied by a separate file in which the author indicates his/her research interests and provides a list of key publications on argumentation. Please include your surname and "issa abstract" in the subject entry of your e-mail message.

Among the conference themes are:

Argument schemes
Argumentation structures
Fallacies
Theoretical issues
Argumentative strategies
Argumentation and stylistics
Ethos and pathos in argumentation
Analysis of controversies
Argumentation in debate
Persuasion research
Interpersonal argumentation
Visual argumentation
Religious argumentation
Argumentation and epistemology
Argumentation in the media
Argumentation in a medical context
Argumentation in a legal context
Argumentation in a political context


Further information on the 7th ISSA Conference is available at: http://www.hum.uva.nl/issa. The address of the planning committee is: Frans H. van Eemeren, University of Amsterdam, Department of Speech Communication, Argumentation Theory and Rhetoric, Spuistraat 134, 1012 VB Amsterdam, email: issa-fgw@uva.nl.