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 rhtorique: Trait de largumentation (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@uoregon.edu