tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15276812498522826932024-03-19T06:44:30.205-04:00World Debate InstituteNews and reports from WDI sessions in Vermont and around the worldAlfred Charles Sniderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16478595639198105911noreply@blogger.comBlogger121125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1527681249852282693.post-8026171023436767872011-06-17T12:41:00.001-04:002011-08-05T15:46:58.551-04:00WDI Blog Moves to New Site<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">We have consolidated all WDI information as well as the blog at a new website. Check there for the latest information about our programs around the world.</span>Alfred Charles Sniderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16478595639198105911noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1527681249852282693.post-23009688908788031872011-05-23T12:19:00.000-04:002011-05-23T12:19:28.630-04:00EDI Adds Faculty, New Website for August Free Debate Workshop<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiKonG9gTN-cc-0sl4eBEi2ryx9WmjTDcJQC8NyJywORqU-jDrwM1s_KkPLUgAsXhS7MXmbXcVof52rwyh67CNjYoENkfgipRZMVzKzqQq9iZpAzXjTTfeiJKHPK-TT7aWGXIblhvXz_5oa/s1600/edi_faculty_2011.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="244" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiKonG9gTN-cc-0sl4eBEi2ryx9WmjTDcJQC8NyJywORqU-jDrwM1s_KkPLUgAsXhS7MXmbXcVof52rwyh67CNjYoENkfgipRZMVzKzqQq9iZpAzXjTTfeiJKHPK-TT7aWGXIblhvXz_5oa/s320/edi_faculty_2011.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #331201; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; line-height: 20px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The East Debate Institute is a FREE </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Universities_Debating_Championship" rel="wikipedia" style="color: #6430ff; text-decoration: none;" title="World Universities Debating Championship">WUDC</a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> debate training workshop that will be held at the </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a class="zem_slink" href="http://www.uvm.edu/" rel="homepage" style="color: #6430ff; text-decoration: none;" title="University of Vermont">University of Vermont</a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> 21-26 August 2011. Attendees must arrange their own housing and meals, but there is a nearby youth hostel.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">EDI has announced some new faculty members:</span></span><br />
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</ul><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; line-height: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">There is a new website for the program, complete with registration details, housing links and a tentative schedule.</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; line-height: 20px;"><a href="http://debate.uvm.edu/debateblog/edi/Welcome.html" style="color: #6430ff; text-decoration: none;">http://debate.uvm.edu/debateblog/edi/Welcome.html</a></span></span></div>Alfred Charles Sniderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16478595639198105911noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1527681249852282693.post-25132066434128930002011-05-08T19:09:00.000-04:002011-05-08T19:09:52.264-04:00WDI European Programs for Fall<span class="zemanta-img separator" style="clear: right;"><a href="http://commons.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Julian_Alps_with_Prisojnik_and_Razor.jpg" style="clear: right; display: block; float: right; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="View from the town Kranjska Gora in north-west..." height="159" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a4/Julian_Alps_with_Prisojnik_and_Razor.jpg/300px-Julian_Alps_with_Prisojnik_and_Razor.jpg" style="border: none; font-size: 0.8em;" width="300" /></a><span class="zemanta-img-attribution" style="clear: both; float: right; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; width: 300px;">Image via <a href="http://commons.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Julian_Alps_with_Prisojnik_and_Razor.jpg">Wikipedia</a></span></span><br />
<pre wrap=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The International Debate Academy in Slovenia is jointly sponsored by the World Debate Institute and ZIP SLovenia.</span></pre><pre wrap=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">
</span></pre><pre wrap=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">First, here is the link to the new web page that contains the educational elements of the 2010 program.
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://debateeuropeforcitizens.blogspot.com/">http://debateeuropeforcitizens.blogspot.com/</a>
with video lectures from <a class="zem_slink" href="http://www.kranjska-gora.si/" rel="homepage" title="Kranjska Gora">Kranjska Gora</a> and a lot of content and debate training material. Please, feel free to use it and circulate it in your debate circuits. We would also appreciate a lot if you can publisice the link to this debate training web to your ownweb page. Thanks a lot.
The second info is about IDAS 2011 - it will happen in Hotel Špik again and tournament in Ljubljana, from 19th - 28th of November. You can participate in the whole event or the tournament only. Here is the web page <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://debate.uvm.edu/idas.html">http://debate.uvm.edu/idas.html</a>
The registration is open. Please, do not wait with registration as the places are limited.
Some of you know that we did submit a new proposal to <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Europe" rel="wikipedia" title="Europe">Europe</a> for Citizens. We do expect the answer will be in June and I will let you know when we find out. I will also inform everybody if we are able to give scholarships for those who otherwise can not afford to participat. Right now we do not have any sponsor yet.
I will appreciate a lot if you can circulate this information in your debate community and globally.
Best, Bojana
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Svetosavska 24, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenija
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USUDC 2011 is hosted by the Lawrence Debate Union at the University of Vermont in cooperation with the World Debate Institute and the Debate Central websites, of which this is one.</span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br />
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Entries are now at 142 teams with 24 on the extra teams waiting list. It seems like we will really make our 200 team cap, so please enter now before you get shut out. Check the list to make sure you are there. If you have judges that are not listed let us know. </span> <span style="font-size: small;"><br />
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Many global teams have contacted us and we are negotiating with them on visas and issues like housing and they are arranging funding for transportation. We will add them to the list when we can. We have already added Alberta, British Columbia, ILCS Morocco, Manila, </span> <span style="font-size: small;"><a class="zem_slink freebase/en/marianopolis_college" href="http://www.marianopolis.edu/" rel="homepage" title="Marianopolis College">Marianapolis</a>, <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/national_university_of_singapore" href="http://www.nus.edu/" rel="homepage" title="National University of Singapore">National University of Singapore</a>, Queen's, <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/tshwane_university_of_technology" href="http://www.tut.ac.za/" rel="homepage" title="Tshwane University of Technology">Tshwane University of Technology</a>, and <a class="zem_slink freebase/m/0373qt" href="http://www.ucd.ie/" rel="homepage" title="University College Dublin">University College Dublin</a>. <br />
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We have considered the applications of the many DCAs and we have made decisions. We are contacting them now and will make an announcement later this week. Thank you so much for the impressive array of global talent that applied.</span> <span style="font-size: small;"><br />
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After our DCAs are announced we will be putting out a call for judges to add to our pool. Some subsidy will be available, rego waivers, housing and even limited travel sponsorship. Stand by for this. We will have an announcement about those agreeing to attend to judge in about a month.</span> <span style="font-size: small;"><br />
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There is still time to apply to be part of the America's Cup Debates. This open field is attracting some of the best debaters in the world. Application deadline for one of the 16 spots is the end of January. Send us your top 5 tournament finishes. </span> <span style="font-size: small;"><br />
<a href="http://debate.uvm.edu/debateblog/usu2011/Americas_Cup.html">http://debate.uvm.edu/debateblog/usu2011/Americas_Cup.html</a></span> <span style="font-size: small;"><br />
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We are working on finalizing the budget for this large event. We are still seeking sponsors. Point us at any you know of and we are in discussions now. </span> <span style="font-size: small;"><br />
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More news to come!</span> <span style="font-size: small;"><br />
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Alfred Snider</span> <span style="font-size: small;"><br />
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http://debate.uvm.edu/debateblog/usu2011/<br />
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</div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The World Debate Forum was held for two days after the WUDC <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/botswana" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Botswana" rel="wikipedia" title="Botswana">Botswana</a> as an opportunity for those interested in promoting debate in their countries. The original idea was to have a good size group swap ideas, make presentations and network. The hopes were not met but the event was nevertheless a useful one.</span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The original idea was to have four different sessions, and in each of then have 3-4 presentations followed by questions, and also allow for break-out groups and other discussions. I worked hard to get presentations for my section (education and training) and did succeed in getting four presentations: Bojana Skrt of <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/slovenia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slovenia" rel="wikipedia" title="Slovenia">Slovenia</a> on teacher training, Nur Asia of <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/malaysia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malaysia" rel="wikipedia" title="Malaysia">Malaysia</a> on using debate to develop soft skills, Gavin Ilsley on debate training as a preparation for business consulting, and myself about training debaters (exercises and workshops). These were the only four presentations that took place.</span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">There were 28 people but they represented 18 countries: Botswana, China, Ghana, Korea, Macedonia, Malaysia, Nigeria, Poland, Rwanda, South Africa, Sudan, Slovenia, Tanzania, Uganda, <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/united_kingdom" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Kingdom" rel="wikipedia" title="United Kingdom">United Kingdom</a>, <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/united_states" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States" rel="wikipedia" title="United States">USA</a>, Zambia and Zimbabwe. People from Macedonia, Poland, United Kingdom and USA had come as part of an Open Society Foundation/IDEA contingent. Logan and Ahyoung Kim were the organizers.</span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">It did not start well as we were told we would leave WUDC at 1 PM, then it was delayed until 5 PM, and then they put us on the wrong bus, and then we took off for a location we did not even know of and that had been not announced. It was the Sedibeng Lodge at the end of a dirt road, and it was fine but without real internet and the restaurant was very understocked and often out of what you wanted. They did have a small pool but it looked a little too green for me.</span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">On the first day Logan changed the start time again (something he seems to do a lot) and the first session was renamed to talk about competitive debate and he led the discussion. It ended up being about lots and lots of things. A spin off discussion about using the Internet was led by David Crane of Debatewise to promote OSI activities that are online. That was an interesting discussion and we heard that 2011 will be the year of the <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/internet_video" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_video" rel="wikipedia" title="Internet video">Internet video</a>, but also from the African countries that they simply did not have the bandwidth for videos. I vowed to take a group of 50 videos that would be good for beginner training (we have 1785 debate videos online) and strip the picture out of them and make them available as simple sound files. </span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The afternoon discussion was led by Alex Dukalkis of IDEA/OSI and dealt with using debate for advocacy. I had to miss part of it to complete some vital emails about my courses starting when I get back, but did join in and shared our programs for public debates and our television advocacy program, Flashpoint.</span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">That was the end of day 1. Bojana and I had been approached the day before by the cook who wanted to prepare us some local cuisine, and we had agreed on a dish. When I went to order it I was informed that she had not come to work that day. When we tried to order other things from the menu we were told they were all out. Frustrated, we got a cab and went to the famous Bull and Bush restaurant, which was a fantastic African barbecue place down at the end of a dirt road, and it was reasonable and very tasty. We came back and went to bed, still tired from WUDC I think.</span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Day 2 began with our session on debate education and training. Bojana did an excellent presentation about teacher training, which prompted a lot of questions from African debate organizers. I followed with a presentation of basic training exercises and drills along with a description of the "academy" (as in International Debate Academy Slovenia, and Iraq Debate Acaemy, Qatar Debate Academy, and many more). Nur Asia from Malaysia gave a very interesting presentation on the approach at Malaysia's <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/international_islamic_university_islamabad" href="http://www.iiu.edu.pk/" rel="homepage" title="International Islamic University, Islamabad">International Islamic University</a> and their program to build "soft skills" in students through debate. Gavin Ilsley of the UK then gave a presentation about using debate skills to engage in business consulting and training after university, and that led to a very interesting discussion about whether we were training ethical communicators or win at any cost competitors. Lunch came next, and after that a "catch all" session led by Logan where we tried to discuss other issues, but the event ended about an hour early as people did not seem to have much more to say. Some Africans expressed mild frustrations, as did I because so few people had organized presentations. </span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">It certainly could have been better, but for my part I learned a lot from African debate organizers about their situation and the challnges they face, I shared my ideas about how to conduct debate training, and I made a lot of good network connections that might lead to some interesting African training opportunities later.</span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">There was some talk about trying to organize another such event linked to WUDC Manila, but I am not sure about that. We shall see. As for me, I am all about doing what I can to promote debate in places were it is new or non-existant.</span></div><div class="zemanta-pixie" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; height: 15px; margin-top: 10px;"><span style="font-size: small;"><a class="zemanta-pixie-a" href="http://www.zemanta.com/" title="Enhanced by Zemanta"><img alt="Enhanced by Zemanta" class="zemanta-pixie-img" src="http://img.zemanta.com/zemified_e.png?x-id=316e5ae4-8285-4081-a766-b0caca94ff53" style="border: medium none; float: right;" /></a></span><span class="zem-script more-related more-info pretty-attribution paragraph-reblog" style="font-size: small;"><script defer="defer" src="http://static.zemanta.com/readside/loader.js" type="text/javascript">
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While staying in <a class="zem_slink" href="http://www.ljubljana.si/" rel="homepage" title="Ljubljana">Ljubljana</a> in preparation for heading down south to WUDC Botswana I was called on by those here in <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slovenia" rel="wikipedia" title="Slovenia">Slovenia</a> to do some training. I was glad to do it as a representative of the World Debate Institute (<a href="http://debate.uvm.edu/debateblog/wdi/Welcome.html">http://debate.uvm.edu/debateblog/wdi/Welcome.html</a>) because Slovenian debaters are very serious and very anxious to learn and I love to teach debating.<br />
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On Tuesday evening 14 December 2010 I met with the debate club at the Law Faculty of the <a class="zem_slink" href="http://www.uni-lj.si/" rel="homepage" title="University of Ljubljana">University of Ljubljana</a>. Urska Derganc (sorry, I lack the right characters) and Gregor Janzek lead the club, and invited me to do a presentation on "Build Better Arguments." There were about 30 people there, and some of them were not debaters, but who wanted to learn more so they will write better essays as well as write better legal arguments. I reviewed the problems most often found in inductive, deductive and causal arguments. Then I talked about how to build "thicker" arguments that are deeper and more substantive, using my new models for mechanical, organic and stakeholder arguments. Then, I talked about 12 different forms of support you can use for an argument. We ended by asking volunteers to give 3 minute speeches on an assigned motion to illustrate their use of these "thicker" techniques. 17 of the 32 or so volunteered and spoke. After that we adjourned to a nearby pub for discussion and the telling of tall tales.<br />
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On Thursday afternoon 16 December 2010 I went to Gymnasia Bezigrad to meet with high school debaters. <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Universities_Debating_Championship" rel="wikipedia" title="European Universities Debating Championship">EUDC</a> ESL champion Maja Cimerman directs this club, and once again about 30 people showed up for a session on "How to Be a Dynamic Speaker." I did my usual talk about the three laws of dynamism and how to apply them to all facets of speech delivery, and then I added some new material I had developed for IDAS about what empirical research in persuasion shows are things to do and not to do while giving a speech. There was not time for an exercise, but the reception I received seemed warm and genuine. After that I had a farewell meeting with Maja and then trundled into a taxi.<br />
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On Saturday and Sunday December 18 and 19 December 2011 I met with the Slovenia world schools team that is preparing for a tournament in Istanbul as well as the upcoming <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Schools_Debating_Championships" rel="wikipedia" title="World Schools Debating Championships">World Schools Debating Championship</a> that will be held in 2011 in <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dundee" rel="wikipedia" title="Dundee">Dundee, Scotland</a>. On Saturday morning I did a "Principle" exercise with them where I would give each pair a motion and have them immediatekly tell me what the principle would be behind prop and opp. We did about 30 or more motions in a brief time. Then, we did a speaking exercise like the one at <a href="http://debatevideoblog.blogspot.com/2010/12/debate-exercise-speaking-drills-vermont.html">http://debatevideoblog.blogspot.com/2010/12/debate-exercise-speaking-drills-vermont.html</a> where they get a motion and have to start talking immeditely while a panel of students evaluates their speaking on various features: language choices and crutch words, hands and body, voice and face and finally a general style rating and evaluation. This went really well and we decided to do it again the next day. Then we ended with a debate on "in some cases violence is justified to protect the environment." I was first opp speaker. It was a very spirited debate and afterwards Bojana delivered a long critique (in Slovenian). The next day we met again in the morning and I did a follow up series of speaking drills, this time capturing them on video. Each student would list the things they had done wrong the previous day, then I would give them a motion that they had to start speaking on immediately, and then a panel of students evaluiated them, all captured on video. Then we had a debate (in which I weas second opp speaker) on the motion, "China should adopt EU environmental standards." This was a difficult motion to debate, and they did a fine job. I was better than the day before. Again, Bojana delivered a long critique in Slovenian. This team is a very talented group but does have some rough spots. I know that with Bojana Skrt's relentless preparation they will make Slovenia proud.<br />
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Today, Monday, I prepare to leave for Botswana tomorrow. I hope they clear the snow in Frankfurt so flying south is possible!<br />
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</div>I leave early this afternoon. I am beginning one of the longer debate journeys of my life. Global Debate will be there with me, because it is me. Follow here and on <a class="zem_slink" href="http://twitter.com/" rel="homepage" title="Twitter">Twitter</a> (asnider) and <a class="zem_slink" href="http://facebook.com/" rel="homepage" title="Facebook">Facebook</a> (Alfred Snider). Thanks to WDI for symbolic sponsorship.<span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse;"></span><br />
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</div><div>In <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slovenia" rel="wikipedia" title="Slovenia">Slovenia</a>: debate workshops, events, pubic debates and more. </div><div><br />
</div><div>In <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Botswana" rel="wikipedia" title="Botswana">Botswana</a>: arriving at WUDC early to help in planning for the logistics of this event. Thanks to OrgComm for inviting me. Watch for reports as you wing towards Africa.</div><div><br />
</div><div>At WUDC Botswana: motions, events, gossip, breaks, bid news, results. Lots of videos that will end up on Debate Video (<a href="http://debatevideoblog.blogspot.com/">http://debatevideoblog.blogspot.com/</a>). We will see how my digital service holds up in south central Africa.</div><div><br />
</div><div>At World Debate Forum in Botswana: people, topics, speculations, and also videos from this exciting post-WUDC event.</div><div><br />
</div><div>Post WUDC Tourism: Not so much news, but you never know what may happen when I get to the <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kalahari_Desert" rel="wikipedia" title="Kalahari Desert">Kalahari Desert</a>.</div><div><br />
</div><div>Back to Europe for a brief breather, then back to <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vermont" rel="wikipedia" title="Vermont">Vermont</a> to start the next semester of debate competition in the Northeast USA.</div><div><br />
</div><div>Thanks for paying attention!</div><div class="zemanta-pixie" style="height: 15px; margin-top: 10px;"><a class="zemanta-pixie-a" href="http://www.zemanta.com/" title="Enhanced by Zemanta"><img alt="Enhanced by Zemanta" class="zemanta-pixie-img" src="http://img.zemanta.com/zemified_e.png?x-id=789ee602-665a-4e27-81af-eaeeda8cf3af" style="border: none; float: right;" /></a></div>Alfred Charles Sniderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16478595639198105911noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1527681249852282693.post-56286892311044072082010-11-28T11:44:00.000-05:002010-11-28T11:44:02.534-05:00Vermont Wins IDAS 2010 Tournament<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhXTuxFN6wPQ_lAbC92DPVTWLg0wUBb3WSb162vdWL-R5C31E3nIRIsBESKZ6797jaWKxqvl2_mUhtQrliV-N88hvi1WTlombOcZheDbAwNgcrqyTsg1GrmIPxVpqREgN3xqxQ54W9FyPcP/s1600/IMG_1380.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhXTuxFN6wPQ_lAbC92DPVTWLg0wUBb3WSb162vdWL-R5C31E3nIRIsBESKZ6797jaWKxqvl2_mUhtQrliV-N88hvi1WTlombOcZheDbAwNgcrqyTsg1GrmIPxVpqREgN3xqxQ54W9FyPcP/s320/IMG_1380.jpg" width="320" /></span></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Stephen Boyle with his team from <a class="zem_slink" href="http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=44.0,-72.7&spn=3.0,3.0&q=44.0,-72.7%20(Vermont)&t=h" rel="geolocation" title="Vermont">Vermont</a>, John Sadek and Jessica Bullock</span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">John Sadek and Jessica Bullock have won the 60 team 24 country International Debate Academy <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slovenia" rel="wikipedia" title="Slovenia">Slovenia</a> 2010 tournament held at the Faculty of Administration, University of Ljubljana in <a class="zem_slink" href="http://www.ljubljana.si/" rel="homepage" title="Ljubljana">Ljubljana, Slovenia</a>. Filip Dobranic and Maja Cimernan of Ljubljana, the reigning EUDC ESL champs, came second, other teams in the final Were Anna England Kerr and Crt Podlogar from Ljublljana along with the Serbian team of Goran Jankuloski and Pedrag Pevicevic from <a class="zem_slink" href="http://www.beograd.rs/" rel="homepage" title="Belgrade">Belgrade</a>. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">JUDGES:</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse;"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span class="SpellE"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Anne Valkering, <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netherlands" rel="wikipedia" title="Netherlands">Netherlands</a></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> (chair), John </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Hampson, <a class="zem_slink" href="http://www.britishcouncil.org/" rel="homepage" title="British Council">British Council</a>, Loke Wing Fatt, <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singapore" rel="wikipedia" title="Singapore">Singapore</a>, TJ Senamngern, <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thailand" rel="wikipedia" title="Thailand">Thailand</a> and Maja Nenadovic, Netherlands.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Semifinals: </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">bold go through</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">ROOM:</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">AUDITORIUM</span></div></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse;"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Kerr </span><span class="SpellE"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Podlogar</span></span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> 1O<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Williams Eng 2O<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span class="SpellE"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Cimerman</span></b></span><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><span class="SpellE"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Dobranic</span></span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> 1P<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span class="SpellE"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Pitic</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><span class="SpellE"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Moscovici</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> 2P</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">ROOM: 14</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span class="SpellE"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Dicu</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><span class="SpellE"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Gadeke</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> 1O<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span class="SpellE"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Jankuloski</span></b></span><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><span class="SpellE"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Petricevic</span></span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> 2P<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span class="SpellE"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Sobocan</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><span class="SpellE"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Denkovski</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> 1P<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span class="SpellE"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Sadek</span></b></span><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> Bullock</span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> 2O</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Quarterfinals: bold go through</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">ROOM: 2<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">1 </span><span class="SpellE"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Cimerman</span></b></span><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><span class="SpellE"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Dobranic, Slovenia/Ljubljana</span></span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">16 </span><span class="SpellE"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Alexandrescu</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><span class="SpellE"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Sovaiala-Ionescu, Romania/Argo</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">8 </span><span class="SpellE"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Pitic</span></b></span><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><span class="SpellE"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Moscovici, Romania/Argo</span></span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">9 </span><span class="SpellE"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Durrani</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> Joyce, USA/St. John's</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">ROOM: 3<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">4 </span><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Kerr </span><span class="SpellE"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Podlogar, Slovenia/Ljubljana</span></span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">13 </span><span class="SpellE"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Vignevic</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><span class="SpellE"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Cirovic, Serbia/Belgrade</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">5 </span><span class="SpellE"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Suleic</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><span class="SpellE"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Kolundzic, Serbia/Belgrade</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">12 </span><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Williams Eng, USA/Air Force Academy</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"></span></b></div><b><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">ROOM: 4<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">2 </span><span class="SpellE"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Dicu</span></b></span><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><span class="SpellE"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Gadeke, Romania-Germany</span></span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">15 </span></span><span class="SpellE"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">Jutersek</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"> </span></span><span class="SpellE"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">Polsak, Slovenia/Maribor</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">7 </span><span class="SpellE"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Jankuloski</span></b></span><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><span class="SpellE"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Petricevic, Serbia/Belgrade</span></span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">10 </span></span><span class="SpellE"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">Salapic</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"> </span></span><span class="SpellE"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">Martinic, Croatia</span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span class="SpellE"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">ROOM: 5<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">3 </span><span class="SpellE"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Sadek</span></b></span><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> Bullock, USA/Vermont</span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">14 </span><span class="SpellE"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Sobocan</span></b></span><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><span class="SpellE"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Denkovski, Slovenia/Maribor-Cambridge</span></span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">6 </span></span><span class="SpellE"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">Vrecic</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"> </span></span><span class="SpellE"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">Zitek, Slovenia/Ljubljana</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">11 </span></span><span class="SpellE"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">Velikovski</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"> </span></span><span class="SpellE"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">Georgievska, Macedonia</span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span class="SpellE"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
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<tr><td><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">1</span></td><td><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Maja Cimerman</span></td><td><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Cimerman Dobranic</span></td><td><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">481</span></td><td><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">80,16</span></td><td><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
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<tr><td><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">2</span></td><td><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Filip Muki Dobranic</span></td><td><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Cimerman Dobranic</span></td><td><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">479</span></td><td><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">79,83</span></td><td><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
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<tr><td><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">3</span></td><td><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Marietta Gadeke</span></td><td><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Dicu Gaeke</span></td><td><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">475</span></td><td><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">79,16</span></td><td><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
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<tr><td><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">4</span></td><td><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Eveline Dicu</span></td><td><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Dicu Gaeke</span></td><td><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">473</span></td><td><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">78,83</span></td><td><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Finals. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">THBT the free market does not make the workers free.</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The oprogram is sponsored by ZIP Slovenia, World Debate Institute USA, European Union, Europe for Citizens Program and the law firm of Bickell and Brewer. </span></span><br />
<div class="zemanta-pixie" style="height: 15px; margin-top: 10px;"><a class="zemanta-pixie-a" href="http://www.zemanta.com/" title="Enhanced by Zemanta"><img alt="Enhanced by Zemanta" class="zemanta-pixie-img" src="http://img.zemanta.com/zemified_e.png?x-id=c7a81898-51a5-4e2b-afd4-56506a347580" style="border: none; float: right;" /></a></div>Alfred Charles Sniderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16478595639198105911noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1527681249852282693.post-84309516443089645692010-11-27T17:49:00.002-05:002010-11-27T17:49:53.804-05:00Breaking Teams at IDAS 2010<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-4kB-b_kcHSTRdl093tB6-X9QU6UUYLfYyn_kV3zxmHKFA5vVqyb6AKrQdr5XfdDLWkfsj5M2-8uXs-xmAZioxCjbdWlglkvN0w26pEa2KAVwiS1hyphenhyphen3jBMay6JHFWzKUS1X1mZWHpL0m7/s1600/IDAS+Groupsmall.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><img border="0" height="262" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-4kB-b_kcHSTRdl093tB6-X9QU6UUYLfYyn_kV3zxmHKFA5vVqyb6AKrQdr5XfdDLWkfsj5M2-8uXs-xmAZioxCjbdWlglkvN0w26pEa2KAVwiS1hyphenhyphen3jBMay6JHFWzKUS1X1mZWHpL0m7/s400/IDAS+Groupsmall.jpg" width="400" /></span></a></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
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<div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>60 teams pose before round one</i></span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Top 20 teams, top 16 advance to quarterfinals in the morning:</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">1. Cimerman Dobranic 15-960 Slovenia/Ljubljama</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">2. Dicu Gadeke 14-948 Romania/Germany</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">3. Sadek Bullock 14-940 USA/Vermont</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">4. Kerr Podlogar 14-935 Slovenia/Ljubljana</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">5. Suleic Kolundzic 13-932 Serbia/Belgrade</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">6. Vrecic Zitek 13-896 Slovenia/Ljubljana</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">7. Jankiloski Petricevic 12-939 Serbia/Belgrade</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">8. Pitic Moscovici 12-930 Romania/Argo</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">9. Durrani Joyce 12-917 USA/St. John's</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">10. Salapic Martinic 12-899 Croatia</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">11. Velkovski Georgievska 12-898 Macedonia</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">12. Williams Eng, 11-913 USA/US Air Force Academy</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">13. Vignjevic Cirovic 11-912 Serbia/Belgrade</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">14. Sobocon Denkovski 11-911 Slovenia/Maribor & Cambridge</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">15. Juterek Polsak 11-909 Slovenia/Maribor</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">16. Alexandrescu Sovaiala-Ionescu 11-902 Romania/Argo</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">17. Brach Krakowski 11-894 Poland</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">18. Lipovsek Arvaj 11-890 Slovenia</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">19. Weese Jager 10-911 Austria/Vienna</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">20. Duque Diaz 10-907 Venezuela/AUDAS</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">20. Bencik Fink 10-907 Slovenia</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">IDAS is sponsored by ZIP Slovenia and the World Debate Institute at the <a class="zem_slink" href="http://www.uvm.edu/" rel="homepage" title="University of Vermont">University of Vermont</a>, with support from <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Union" rel="wikipedia" title="European Union">European Union</a> and the law firm of Bickel and Brewer. </span><br />
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<div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>This is the view from the room at Hotel Spik where I was staying.</i></span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The International Debate Academy </span><a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slovenia" rel="wikipedia" title="Slovenia"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Slovenia</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> instructional portion ended on Thursday night.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">After a day of three lectures, nine exercise groups, twelve practice debates, ten electives and then twelve more rooms of practice debates, the day ended with the famous "Kitsch Party." Everyone came in their funkiest styles and Gavin Ilsley got his legs waxed (so his short skirt would look better) in an effort to raise money for </span><a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breast_cancer" rel="wikipedia" title="Breast cancer"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">breast cancer</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> and </span><a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prostate_cancer" rel="wikipedia" title="Prostate cancer"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">prostate cancer</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> research. I am sure there will be lots of photos later.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Friday morning buses will take everyone to </span><a class="zem_slink" href="http://www.ljubljana.si/" rel="homepage" title="Ljubljana"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Ljubljana</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> for the tournament held at the Faculty of Public Administration at the University of Ljubljana. Some teams added, a couple had to go home, but we are looking at a field of 60 teams at roll call. Rounds one and two will be today, three through six on Saturday, and then elimination rounds on Sunday.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Stay tuned for all details. </span><br />
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People have asked me what all those electives (12 a day) from IDAS are. So, I thought I would post them from the first two days to give people ideas for training and also an idea of how we are training university students and teachers here.<br />
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<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">ELECTIVES: IDAS 2010<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">SUNDAY<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">ELECTIVE 1 1500<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Room: Jezerci<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Principled argumentation - Boyle<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: Arial;">Learn how to argue from a principled standpoint and make theoretical arguments more convincing.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Room: Spik<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">How to improve your Manner/Be an effective speaker - Loke<o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Tips on how you could improve your style as a speaker will be discussed. You will take home some useful ways to help yourself and others to become more effective, stylistically, as a public speaker.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Room: Gobela</span><span style="font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Persuasive<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> Appeals</i> - Wright<o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Social science as a weapon of mass consumption. This lecture will address some of the more socially scientific visions of contemporary persuasion. Including some of these devices in a debate works to demonstrate the shared space between debaters, judges, and audiences.</span><span style="font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Room: Elevator 3</span><span style="font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Debating Technologies, Internet and Media – Zheng Bo<o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Discussion of How technologies shaped our life and our social network.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Room: </span><span style="font-family: Arial;">Rute<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="margin-top: .1pt; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="SL" style="font-family: Arial;">Yugoslavia: Once Upon a Time, There Was a Country… - Nenadovic & Avbar</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="SL" style="font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: .1pt; mso-para-margin-top: .01gd;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">History, politics, culture and religion of a country that once was and is no longer. The elective pays special attention to the breakup of the country in the 1990s, the issues that arose in the process, and the (post-conflict) democratization processes as well as EU accession prospects for the countries formerly known as ‘Yugoslavia’.</span><span style="font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Room: Elevator 2</span><span style="font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Strategic style – Ilsley<o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Learning the value of a stylistic range and how best to deploy it</span><span style="font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">ELECTIVE 2 1600<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Room: Jezerci<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">EU Integration and expansion - Boyle<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: Arial;">An exploration of the EUs expansion to date, and a discussion of the countries currently under consideration for accession.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Room: Spik<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Multiculturalism in Singapore/Asia - Loke<o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">This is a Content Lecture on how Singapore and Asian countries pursue multiculturalism in its politics, laws, and social norms. It will be useful for EU students to learn how people from Asian countries devise policies to accommodate the multiplicity of race, religion and language in their diverse populations.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Room: </span><span style="font-family: Arial;">Rute<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Yugoslavia – Part 2 – Nenadovic & Aybar<o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Contunies from part 1.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Room: Gobela</span><span style="font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Narrative<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> Reasoning</i> – Wright<o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">This elective discusses the persuasive form and function of narrative. Defining narrative reasoning and combining it with more traditional appeals to reason makes debaters more persuasive to various audiences.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Room: Elevator 3</span><span style="font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Setting Cases for Gov and Opp – Zheng Bo<o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Discussions on how Opp avoid panicking and develop a coherent case to negate the Gov case in 7-min, and how Gov can well utilize their 15-min prep time to develop a case that is logically sound.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Room: Elevator 2<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">The lightning bug and the lightning – Ilsley<o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Word choice and framing in winning debates<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">ELECTIVE 1 1500<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Room: Gobela<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><b>Ecological Philosophies - Snider</b></span><span style="font-family: Arial;"><br />
</span><span style="font-family: Arial;">There are philosophical perspectives on the relationship between human beings and the ecology that can help you create coherent, consistent and compelling arguments in debates about ecological issues. They range from very human-centered to very bio-centered. These can also help you, as an individual, determine what your relationship with the ecology is and how it should operate in your life as well as in debate. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Room: Rute<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .1pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: .1pt; mso-para-margin-bottom: .01gd; mso-para-margin-left: 0in; mso-para-margin-right: 0in; mso-para-margin-top: .01gd;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial;"><b>EU democratisation promotion policies – chances of success - Valkering</b></span><span style="font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Room: Spik<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><b>Economics for debating - Boyle</b><br />
Learn how to debate some of the most pressing economic issues of the day<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Room: Jecerzi<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><b>How to find the "core issues" in a debate motion - Loke</b><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">This is an interactive session where the students will be guided to systematically discover the key ideas which should be given air time in a debate topic. Students will go away with some key concepts/questions they should ask when discovering "core issues" in a debate motion.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Room: Lobby 3<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><b>Speaker Roles and Team Strategies – Zheng Bo</b><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Discussions about speaker roles and team strategies, with focus on the dynamic nature of BP debates.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .1pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: .1pt; mso-para-margin-bottom: .01gd; mso-para-margin-left: 0in; mso-para-margin-right: 0in; mso-para-margin-top: .01gd;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .1pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: .1pt; mso-para-margin-bottom: .01gd; mso-para-margin-left: 0in; mso-para-margin-right: 0in; mso-para-margin-top: .01gd;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial;">Room: Lobby 2<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .1pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: .1pt; mso-para-margin-bottom: .01gd; mso-para-margin-left: 0in; mso-para-margin-right: 0in; mso-para-margin-top: .01gd;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><b>Aristotelian</b><i><b> rhetoric</b></i><b> – Wright</b><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .1pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: .1pt; mso-para-margin-bottom: .01gd; mso-para-margin-left: 0in; mso-para-margin-right: 0in; mso-para-margin-top: .01gd;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">The form and function of different rhetorical forms. Recognizing the particulars of a case and a motion, using the parameters set forth by rhetorical scholarship, debaters could prep more fluid and convincing arguments.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .1pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: .1pt; mso-para-margin-bottom: .01gd; mso-para-margin-left: 0in; mso-para-margin-right: 0in; mso-para-margin-top: .01gd;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .1pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: .1pt; mso-para-margin-bottom: .01gd; mso-para-margin-left: 0in; mso-para-margin-right: 0in; mso-para-margin-top: .01gd;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Room: AW 1<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><b>WHAT IS THE PROBLEM? – Nenadovic</b><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Analyzing the debate motion in order to get a clear problem definition. Many governments fail to specify what the problem is that they are addressing, and in doing so, they miss to outline the relevance of the motion. This is a highly practical elective, where we will together take apart different debate motions, review problems inherent in those motions, and devise relevant government and opposition strategies.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .1pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: .1pt; mso-para-margin-bottom: .01gd; mso-para-margin-left: 0in; mso-para-margin-right: 0in; mso-para-margin-top: .01gd;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Room: Spik<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: .1pt; mso-para-margin-top: .01gd; text-indent: -.25in;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"> <b> Position & Treatment of the Roma in Europe - Nenadovic</b></span><span style="font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Starting with the brief history of the Roma people in Europe, this electives covers the current biggest controversies relating to their position and treatment. This elective will discuss both the recent deportations from France and the rise of right-wing parties such as Jobbik in Hungary and the implications this has on the position of Roma, as well as the intended mechanisms of protection (such as the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg, laws on protection of national minorities).</span><span style="font-family: Arial;"> <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Room: Lobby 3<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><b>Debating China – Zheng Bo</b><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Information and discussions about China, such as Mainland/Taiwan relationships, Tibet, China as World Factory, etc.</span><span style="font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Room: Rute<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><b>EU and Asylym – Valkering</b><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .1pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: .1pt; mso-para-margin-bottom: .01gd; mso-para-margin-left: 0in; mso-para-margin-right: 0in; mso-para-margin-top: .01gd;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial;">Asylum policies in the EU and how they work.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Room: Lobby 2<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><b>Histories – Wright</b><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">How historiography and the epideictic shape us. Considering the international flavor of Worlds-style debate, learning and applying historical narrative in a debate could establish credibility to various argumentation claims.</span><span style="font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .1pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: .1pt; mso-para-margin-bottom: .01gd; mso-para-margin-left: 0in; mso-para-margin-right: 0in; mso-para-margin-top: .01gd;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Room: Gobela<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;"><b>Needs and Motivation – Morgan</b><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: 28.0pt 56.0pt 84.0pt 112.0pt 140.0pt 168.0pt 196.0pt 224.0pt 3.5in 280.0pt 308.0pt 336.0pt; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">From Maslow to Max-Neef: a look at the classic <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: 28.0pt 56.0pt 84.0pt 112.0pt 140.0pt 168.0pt 196.0pt 224.0pt 3.5in 280.0pt 308.0pt 336.0pt; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">hierarchy of needs contrasted with conflicting models of need <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">satisfaction</span><span style="font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;"><br />
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<a href="http://vimeo.com/17045302">Debate - WUDC - Guaranteed Income - IDAS 2010 Exhibition</a> from <a href="http://vimeo.com/user1244229">Alfred Snider</a> on <a href="http://vimeo.com/">Vimeo</a>.<br />
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With a total of 140 hearty souls on hand, the 8th International Debate Academy <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slovenia" rel="wikipedia" title="Slovenia">Slovenia</a> has begun in <a class="zem_slink" href="http://www.kranjska-gora.si/" rel="homepage" title="Kranjska Gora">Kranjska Gora</a>, Slovenia. The program is sponsored by Za in Proti Slovenia, the World Debate Institute at the <a class="zem_slink" href="http://www.uvm.edu/" rel="homepage" title="University of Vermont">University of Vermont</a>, the law firm of Bickell and Brewer, and the EU <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Europe_for_Citizens" rel="wikipedia" title="Europe for Citizens">Europe for Citizens</a> Program.<br />
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The event will feature ten practice debates, fifteen lectures, fifteen debate exercise sessions, over thirty elective classes and a number of exciting social events. Participants have come from over 24 countries to this year's event.<br />
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The event kicked off with an exhibition debate on Saturday night on the motion, This House believes that all citizens should be entitled to a basic income without the requirement of work. The first proposition team was Anna England Kerr of <a class="zem_slink" href="http://www.uni-lj.si/" rel="homepage" title="University of Ljubljana">Ljubljana University</a> and Stephen Boyle of <a class="zem_slink" href="http://www.ucd.ie/" rel="homepage" title="University College Dublin">University College Dublin</a> and the University of Vermont, the second proposition team was Jessica Bullock and John Sadek of the University of Vermont, the first opposition team was Gavin Ilsley and Rhydian Morgan of the UK's Stylus Communications, and the second opposition team was Filip Dobranic and Maja Cimerman of Ljubljana University (the reigning EUDC ESL champions).<br />
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The event is being held at the Hotel Spik, a beautiful mountain resort with breathtaking views of the Julian Alps as well as lovely work rooms, living rooms and delicious food.<br />
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The director is Bojana Skrt and the academic director is Alfred Snider. Faculty include Stephen Boyle, Gavin Ilsley, Rhydian Morgan along with Loke Wing Fatt of Singapore, Maja Nenadovic of the Netherlands, Jaime Wright of <a class="zem_slink" href="http://www.stjohns.edu/" rel="homepage" title="St. John's University (New York)">St. John's University</a> in the USA, Zheng Boof Peking University in China, Anne Valkering of the Netherlands, TJ Senamengern of Assumption University in Thailand, Steve Llano of St. John's University in the USA. Peter Mesarec and Helena Felc of Slovenia are important parts of the program. <br />
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There is a group of some 20 trainers and teachers who are attending the additional trainers' workshop. They will learn the WUDC format, coaching and training skills, as well as judging. They will begin judging as the week goes on and will also judge at the tournament.<br />
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On Friday everyone will take buses to Ljubljana where a three day tournament will take place at the University of Ljubljana's faculty of administration. Other teams from around Europe will join those already at IDAS for a major central European tournament.<br />
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For more information, check out <a href="http://debate.uvm.edu/idas.html">http://debate.uvm.edu/idas.html</a> and <a href="http://internationaldebateacademy.blogspot.com/">http://internationaldebateacademy.blogspot.com/</a><br />
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We will have more information as the program advances.<br />
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<pre style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;" wrap=""><span style="font-size: small;">This is a letter that Bojana Skrt sent to the 112 attendees of IDAS 2010. </span></pre><pre style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;" wrap=""><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></pre><pre style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;" wrap=""><span style="font-size: small;">There is still room due to our new luxurious hotel with indoor pool.
It is top instruction in the <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/world_universities_debating_championship" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Universities_Debating_Championship" rel="wikipedia" title="World Universities Debating Championship">WUDC</a> format and there will be an excellent tournament at the end.
The price is very reasonable. Room and food included.</span></pre><pre style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;" wrap=""><span style="font-size: small;"></span></pre><pre style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;" wrap=""><span style="font-size: small;">Organized by <a href="http://www.zainproti.com%20/">Za in Proti</a> (ZIP) and <a href="http://debate.uvm.edu/debateblog/wdi/Welcome.html">World Debate Institute, University of Vermont</a>.
Contact Bojana Skrt at bojana.skrt@siol.net
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Dear all,
We are very glad you decided to participate at IDAS 2010 and we are all looking forward to host you in <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/slovenia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slovenia" rel="wikipedia" title="Slovenia">Slovenia</a>. With your help IDAS 2010 will again be a great event. It seems this year IDAS with more than 100 participants and trainers from 20 countries: Albania, Austria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, China, Croatia, Finland, Germany, Great Britain, Ireland, Italy, Kosovo, Macedonia, Netherlands, Serbia, Singapore, Slovenia, Thailand, Ukraine, USA, Venezuela, will be the biggest ever. Please, check IDAS web page and blog for the program and all updates.
Website: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://debate.uvm.edu/idas.html">http://debate.uvm.edu/idas.html</a>
Blogsite: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://internationaldebateacademy.blogspot.com/">http://internationaldebateacademy.blogspot.com/</a>
CHANGE OF LOCATION The very important news is that due to the bigger number of participants we moved IDAS from Ormož to <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/kranjska_gora" href="http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=46.4833333333,13.7833333333&spn=0.1,0.1&q=46.4833333333,13.7833333333%20%28Kranjska%20Gora%29&t=h" rel="geolocation" title="Kranjska Gora">Kranjska gora</a>, which is the other part of Slovenia. Kranjska gora is 80 km north from <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/ljubljana" href="http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=46.0513888889,14.5055555556&spn=0.1,0.1&q=46.0513888889,14.5055555556%20%28Ljubljana%29&t=h" rel="geolocation" title="Ljubljana">Ljubljana</a>, in <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/julian_alps" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julian_Alps" rel="wikipedia" title="Julian Alps">Julian Alps</a>, very close to Austrian and Italian border. The venue is Hotel Špik in a small village 3 km before Kranjska gora, called <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/gozd_martuljek" href="http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=46.4864166667,13.8261611111&spn=0.1,0.1&q=46.4864166667,13.8261611111%20%28Gozd%20Martuljek%29&t=h" rel="geolocation" title="Gozd Martuljek">Gozd Martuljek</a>. The hotel is much better than the Hotel Ormož, it has an indoor pool and very nice working rooms. So, do not forget to bring swimming clothes with you. The rooms are 4-beds, 3- beds and limited number of 2-beds. </span></pre><pre style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;" wrap=""><span style="font-size: small;">
Here is the web address if you want to check the hotel, Kranjska gora and Gozd Martuljek:
<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="http://www.kranjska-gora.si/home">www.kranjska-gora.si/home</a>
<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="http://www.gradtur.si/zima/slovenija/gozd_martuljek/hotel_Spik.html">www.gradtur.si/zima/slovenija/gozd_martuljek/hotel_Spik.html</a>
<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="http://www.slovenia.info/">www.slovenia.info</a> </span></pre><pre style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;" wrap=""><span style="font-size: small;"><b>
Because we did move to Hotel Špik, we can still accept applications – so, please, share the information about IDAS with everybody who might be interested. </b></span></pre><pre style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;" wrap=""><span style="font-size: small;"><b> </b>
EU PROJECT Participants from: Lithuania, Poland, Romania, Italy, Macedonia and Slovenia participate at IDAS 2010 as part of project entitled “»DEBATE ANSWERING THE CHALLENGES OF IMMIGRATION AND MUTLICULTURALISM« supported by European Union’s <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/europe_for_citizens" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Europe_for_Citizens" rel="wikipedia" title="Europe for Citizens">Europe for citizens</a> program. There will be a few additional events organized during IDAS because of this project. Consequently, there will be also lecture topics and some debate topics connected with immigration and multiculturalism issues, role of EU in the world and similar. And of course there will be lots of EU logos all around the venues.
SCHOLARSHIPS FUND Special thanks go to Bickell&Brewer foundation, which gave us 2000 EUR for scholarships, which was divided among 21 participants asking for scholarships. I am sorry for not being able to award all the participants seeking scholarships, due to the limited resources we have. I do hope you will be able to come anyway and would be able to get missing funds for some other donor.
<b>More: </b>
1. In case you can not come, please, inform me immediately – we need to know how many people are coming. .
2. Schedule
We start on Saturday, the 20th t – registration starts at 16.00, the programme starts at 20.00. We finish on Sunday, the 28th around 14.00.
2. IDAS 2010 tournament venues
In Ljubljana we will be staying in high school dormitory Dijaški dom Bežigrad, the adress. Kardeljeva ploščad 28, <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="http://www.ddb.si/">www.ddb.si</a>, There are mainly three bed rooms. The dorm is 3 minutes walk from the tournament venue. The ones who are coming for tournament only – you can check in after 14.00 on Friday.
If you need an extra night in Ljubljana on Thursday or Sunday you need to make your own reservation. VERY IMPORTANT – YOU CAN NOT BE IN DIJAŠKI DOM BEŽIGRAD FOR EXTRA NIGHTS. You need to make reservations in some other hotels - there are plenty of low costs options in Ljubljana which can be booked via Internet. </span></pre><pre style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;" wrap=""><span style="font-size: small;">
The tournament will be held at Faculty of administration, University of Ljubljana, <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="http://www.fu.uni-lju.si/">www.fu.uni-lju.si</a>
3. Registration fee
The registration fee 250 EUR covers the whole Academy - from dinner on the 20th to breakfast on Sunday, the 28th.
</span></pre><pre style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;" wrap=""><span style="font-size: small;">Tournament only
The registration fee for the ones who are coming only for the tournament is 60 EUR, it covers the accommodation and food from dinner on the 26th till breakfast on the 28th. You should plan your departure from Ljubljana in the afternoon.
The participation fee doesn't cover any extra nights. All the extra nights should be paid by you directly to the hotel. If you need an extra night in Hotel Špik in Gozd Martuljek, please, inform me about it and I will make the reservation.
Registration fee should be paid in cash at registration. In case somebody prefers to pay via bank transfer, please, let me know and I will send you our bank account info.
Everybody from Hotel Špik, Gozd Martuljek will leave together by rented bus from Hotel Špik to Ljubljana, no extra fee for this travel.
6.Travelling to Gozd Martuljek
There are buses for Kranjska gora from Ljubljana. You should go to Gozd Martuljek, Hotel Špik ask the driver to stop at the Hotel Špik. The other option is taking a train from Ljubljana to <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/jesenice" href="http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=46.4333333333,14.05&spn=0.1,0.1&q=46.4333333333,14.05%20%28Jesenice%2C%20Slovenia%29&t=h" rel="geolocation" title="Jesenice, Slovenia">Jesenice</a> and than in Jesenice taking a bus to Gozd Martuljek. If you are coming from Austria, you go from Villach to Jesenice, train or bus.
Here is the Ljubljana – Kranjska gora bus schedule: 06:30 a m , 07:30 a m, 09:30 a m, 10:30 a m. 12:30 p m 13:30 p m 14:30 p m 16:30 p m, it costs 8,75 EUR, it takes 2 hours.
Here is the Ljubljana – Jesenice train schedule: Ljubljana 06:50, Ljubljana 07:27, Ljubljana 09:27, Ljubljana 09:45 Ljubljana 11.26, Ljubljana 12:50 Ljubljana 14:41, Ljubljana 15:25, Ljubljana 15:33, Ljubljana 16:55, Ljubljana 17:50, Ljubljana 18:55, Ljubljana 20:48m, Ljubljana 23:50, it costs 6,75 EUR, it takes 1,20 minutes. Jesenice are 25 km away from Gozd Martuljek.
The last bus from Jesenice to Kranjska gora goes at 17.57, than taxi is an option.
If you want to book a special transport, especially from the airport, but can be done from Ljubljana train/bus station as well, you can send an email to <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:borut.markun@siol.net">borut.markun@siol.net</a> – they do have vans and cars and doing pick us services. The same is true if you want to come from the airport to Ljubljana or vice versa.
7. Visas
In case you need visa for entering Slovenia and I didn't send you the visa invitation letter yes, please, contact me immediately – we do not have lots of time left.
8. COUNTRY EXHIBITION
It is the habit that we organize a country fair. This means you need to bring some items – food, drink, things, posters, music …. which present your country the most. More information about this and other social events will be given by our social directors Helena Felc and Gregor Janžek.
</span></pre><pre style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;" wrap=""><span style="font-size: small;">9. SMOKING
Slovenia has very strict smoking law – you are not allowed to smoke at any public places, no restaurants, no hotel room – meaning you can only smoke outside.
</span></pre><pre style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;" wrap=""><span style="font-size: small;">10. WEATHER
We are going to be in Alps, meaning can be cold, not necessarily, but can be bellow zero Celzius, can be snowy. But, it might be also still warm. Have this in mind when packing.
</span></pre><pre style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;" wrap=""><span style="font-size: small;">11. WIRELESS
I was told it is available at least in some parts of hotel.
12. EMERGENCY PHONE NUMBER
Bojana + 386 41423377
</span></pre><pre style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;" wrap=""><span style="font-size: small;">That’s it for now. If you have any additional questions, please, feel free to ask. Really looking forward meeting you all in Slovenia, Bojana
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Bojana Skrt
direktorica
Za in proti, zavod za kulturo dialoga
Svetosavska 24, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenija
<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="http://www.zainproti.com/">www.zainproti.com</a>
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The conference featured scholars, experts and enthusiasts from nineteen countries.</span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">During the sessions there were over 50 papers presented on a variety of topics. There were two keynote speeches, one by Debbie Newman (former president of the Cambridge Union, England and Wales debate champion, former head of the <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/english-speaking_union" href="http://www.esu.org/index.asp" rel="homepage" title="English-Speaking Union">English Speaking Union</a>'s Centre for Speech and Debate, and world champion schools coach for England) from the UK on "The Noisy Classroom" and one from Sam Greenland (Sydney University, WUDC semifinalist, current World Debating Council President) on "Measuring Debate's Impact on Classroom Performance."</span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Eighty attendees spent three days sharing ideas, scholarship and fellowship while networking on future projects. A major panel discussion on "Cultural Variation - Debate and Argument" had participants from Yemen, Morocco, Hungary, Venezuela, Japan, UK and USA. There was a lavish banquet on Saturday night and productive discussions during the twenty panel sessions that were held.</span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Papers from this conference as well as the 2006 and 2008 events will be published in a volume entitled <u>Thinking and Speaking a Better World</u> edited by Alfred Snider of the <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/university_of_vermont" href="http://www.uvm.edu/" rel="homepage" title="University of Vermont">University of Vermont</a> and David Cratis Williams of <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/florida_atlantic_university" href="http://www.fau.edu/" rel="homepage" title="Florida Atlantic University">Florida Atlantic University</a> due out at the end of 2011. </span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Videos of many of the presentations, both keynotes, and the panel discussion on culture will be available in coming weeks at the conference websites. </span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">There will be an announcement soon about the fourth and next conference.</span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Further details can be found at the conference websites:</span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Basic information at <a href="http://debate.uvm.edu/debateblog/better/Welcome.html">http://debate.uvm.edu/debateblog/better/Welcome.html</a></span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">News blog at <a href="http://betterworldconference.blogspot.com/">http://betterworldconference.blogspot.com/</a></span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The conference was organized by the Department of Philosophy, Faculty of Arts, <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/university_of_maribor" href="http://www.uni-mb.si/" rel="homepage" title="University of Maribor">University of Maribor</a> in Slovenia <a href="http://www.uni-mb.si/">http://www.uni-mb.si/</a> , </span><span style="font-size: small; line-height: 115%;">ZIP, Za in proti, zavod za kulturo dialoga/Pro et contra, institute for culture of dialogue <a href="http://www.zainproti.com/">http://www.zainproti.com/</a> , and the World Debate Institute of the University of Vermont <a href="http://debate.uvm.edu/debateblog/wdi/Welcome.html">http://debate.uvm.edu/debateblog/wdi/Welcome.html </a>.</span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small; line-height: 115%;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small; line-height: 115%;">The organizers are grateful for the support of our sponsor <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/qatardebate" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QatarDebate" rel="wikipedia" title="QatarDebate">QatarDebate</a> <a href="http://www.qatardebate.org/">http://www.qatardebate.org/</a> .</span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small; line-height: 115%;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">Thanks to organizers Boris Vezjak, Alfred Snider and Bojana Skrt. Special thanks to Peter Mesarec, Monica Sobocan and </span></span><span style="font-size: small;">Aljoša Polšak.</span></div><div class="zemanta-pixie" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; height: 15px; margin-top: 10px;"><span style="font-size: small;"><a class="zemanta-pixie-a" href="http://www.zemanta.com/" title="Enhanced by Zemanta"><img alt="Enhanced by Zemanta" class="zemanta-pixie-img" src="http://img.zemanta.com/zemified_e.png?x-id=dec47404-1f72-4134-ab64-c78f89fc1f22" style="border: medium none; float: right;" /></a></span><span class="zem-script more-related more-info pretty-attribution paragraph-reblog" style="font-size: small;"><script defer="defer" src="http://static.zemanta.com/readside/loader.js" type="text/javascript">
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0.1pt 0in;"><b><i><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt;">Third international conference on argumentation, rhetoric, debate and the pedagogy of empowerment - thinking and speaking a better world</span></i></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0.1pt 0in;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0.1pt 0in 0.1pt 0.5in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-family: Wingdings; font-size: 10pt;">§<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">Department of Philosophy, Faculty of Arts, University of Maribor, Slovenia (Oddelek za filozofijo, Filozofska fakulteta, Univerza v Mariboru, Slovenija),</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0.1pt 0in 0.1pt 0.5in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-family: Wingdings; font-size: 10pt;">§<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">World Debate Institute (University of Vermont USA) </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0.1pt 0in 0.1pt 0.5in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-family: Wingdings; font-size: 10pt;">§<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">ZIP (Za in proti, zavod za kulturo dialoga/Pro et contra Institute for culture of dialogue Slovenia)</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0.1pt 0in;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><b><span lang="SL" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">Friday, 22nd October 2010 </span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span lang="SL" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">13.00 – 14.30 Registration, Lobby</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><b><span lang="SL" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">14.30 Welcome Remarks from hosts and organizers, Main Auditorium </span></b><br />
<b><span lang="SL" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">Dr. Lučka Lorber, Vice - dean of Faculty of arts, University of Maribor - host </span></b><br />
<b><span lang="SL" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">Boris Vezjak, University of Maribor - host </span></b><br />
<b><span lang="SL" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">Alfred Snider, University of Vermont, USA - organizer </span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><b><span lang="SL" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">15.00 - 17.00 </span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><b><span lang="SL" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">Argumentation, room 1, chair Boris Vezjak, University of Maribor, Slovenia</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">Public Argument and Debate</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-left: 0.5in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-family: Wingdings; font-size: 10pt;">§<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">“Climategate”: Good Science, Bad Arguments, and Problems for Public Discourse, Steven Woods, Western Washington University, Bellingham, WA, USA and Misa Haring, Western Washington University, Bellingham, WA, USA</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-left: 0.5in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-family: Wingdings; font-size: 10pt;">§<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">Argumentation in the Online Media Debate on the Blogs, Ivanka Mavrodieva, Sofia University, Bulgaria</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-left: 0.5in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-family: Wingdings; font-size: 10pt;">§<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">Rhetoric of B. Obama, Natalija Kocijan</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-left: 0.5in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-family: Wingdings; font-size: 10pt;">§<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">Latino National Identity and the 2006 English as the National Language Debate, Donathan L. Brown, Ithaca College, Ithaca, NY, USA</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><b><span lang="SL" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">Debate, room 2, chair, Korry Harvey, </span></b><b><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">Western Washington University, Bellingham, WA, USA</span></b><b><span lang="SL" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;"> </span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><b><span lang="SL" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">Debate and Social Progress</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-left: 0.5in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span lang="SL" style="font-family: Wingdings; font-size: 10pt;">§<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span><span lang="SL" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">Debate as agency: Preparing students for civic engagement, Allan Louden, Wake Forest University, USA </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-left: 0.5in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span lang="SL" style="font-family: Wingdings; font-size: 10pt;">§<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span><span lang="SL" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">Debate as a tool for social progress, Arlan A. Narvaez R., Universidad Central de Venezuela, Venezuela</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-left: 0.5in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span lang="SL" style="font-family: Wingdings; font-size: 10pt;">§<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span><span lang="SL" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">The role of trust in political culture when teaching debate: The Kosovo case study, by Leela Koening, Netherlands and Maja Nenadović, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-left: 0.5in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span lang="SL" style="font-family: Wingdings; font-size: 10pt;">§<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span><span lang="SL" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">Challenges of on-line deliberation: the case of Citizen's forum, Simon Delakorda, & Matej Delakorda , Institute for Electronic Participation (InePA), Slovenia </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><b><span lang="SL" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">Pedagogy, room 3, </span></b><b><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">Sam Greenland, University of Sydney, Australia</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">Argument and Debate in Different Social and Cultural Contexts</span></b><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-left: 0.5in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span lang="SL" style="font-family: Wingdings; font-size: 10pt;">§<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span><span lang="SL" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">Critical Thinking in Indian High schools – the TIC experiment, Ameya Kilara and Aditya Verma </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-left: 0.5in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span lang="SL" style="font-family: Wingdings; font-size: 10pt;">§<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span><span lang="SL" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">Debating and argumentation skills in the speaking strand of Qatari National English and Arabic Curriculum Standards: A critical review, Abdul Gabbar Al – Sharif, Qatar Debate</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-left: 0.5in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span lang="SL" style="font-family: Wingdings; font-size: 10pt;">§<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span><span lang="SL" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">The critical social and political thinking and the methods of educating students in secondary level education, Georgios D Bikos, University of Athens, Greece </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-left: 0.5in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span lang="SL" style="font-family: Wingdings; font-size: 10pt;">§<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span><span lang="SL" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">Attending the process in philosophical discussion, Rudi Kotnik, University of Maribor, Slovenia </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span lang="SL" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">17.00 – 17.30 Coffee break </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span lang="SL" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">17.30 – 19.30 </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><b><span lang="SL" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">Panel discussion: Cultural Variation and Debate, Main Auditorium, chair Alfred Snider, University of Vermont</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span lang="SL" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">Invited: Abdul Gabbar Al – Sharif, Abdel Latiff Selami, Debbie Newman, Arlan A. Narvaez R.,</span><span lang="SL" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;"> </span><span lang="SL" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">Masako Suzuki Takahashi, David WIlliams</span></div><b><span lang="SL" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;"><br clear="ALL" style="page-break-before: always;" /> </span></b> <br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><b><span lang="SL" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">Saturday, 23rd October 2010 </span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span lang="SL" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">9.30 – 11.00 Presentations </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><b><span lang="SL" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">Argumentation, room 1, chair Steven Woods, Western Washington University, Bellingham, WA, USA</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">Processes of Rhetoric and Argumentation</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-left: 0.5in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-family: Wingdings; font-size: 10pt;">§<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">Pain as rhetoric: Photographic depictions of suffering as an argumentative strategy, Taylor Hahn, Clarion University of Pennsylvania, U.S.A.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-left: 0.5in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-family: Wingdings; font-size: 10pt;">§<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">Aesthetic Public Deliberation, Michael Bruner, Georgia State Univ., USA</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-left: 0.5in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-family: Wingdings; font-size: 10pt;">§<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">Motivational Consubstantiation as Starting Points for Arguments of Rhetorical Identification: A Burkean Approach, David Cratis Williams, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, Florida, USA</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><b><span lang="SL" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">Debate, room 2, chair Debbie Newman, UK</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><b><span lang="SL" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">Explorations in Competitive Debating </span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-left: 0.5in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span lang="SL" style="font-family: Wingdings; font-size: 10pt;">§<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span><span lang="SL" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">Judging paradigms, Andrej Schulcz, Slovak Debate Association</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-left: 0.5in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span lang="SL" style="font-family: Wingdings; font-size: 10pt;">§<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span><span lang="SL" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">Power pairing for Worlds Schools Debate Chamiponship, Alfred C Snider, University of Vermont </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-left: 0.5in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span lang="SL" style="font-family: Wingdings; font-size: 10pt;">§<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span><span lang="SL" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">Assessing the role and use of international relations theory in competitive debate, Samo Novak, University of Leiden, Netherlands </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><b><span lang="SL" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">Pedagogy, room 3, chair Sam Greenland, University of Sidney, Austalia</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><b><span lang="SL" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">Active Methods in Different Learning Environments </span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-left: 0.5in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span lang="SL" style="font-family: Wingdings; font-size: 10pt;">§<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span><span lang="SL" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">Introducing a model for blending together traditional and modern teaching methodologies, George Yeoman, Slovenia/UK</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-left: 0.5in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span lang="SL" style="font-family: Wingdings; font-size: 10pt;">§<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span><span lang="SL" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">Argumentative learning style of Arab learners of English as a second language, Abdel Latiff Selami, Qatar Debate, Qatar </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-left: 0.5in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span lang="SL" style="font-family: Wingdings; font-size: 10pt;">§<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span><span lang="SL" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">Hosting competitive debates at the Faculty of arts in Ljubljana, Mirjana Želježič, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><i><span lang="SL" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">11.00 – 11.30 Coffee break </span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><b><span lang="SL" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">11.30 – 13.00 Keynote, Main Auditorium <br />
Debbie Newman, The Noisy Classroom: Thinking aloud</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><i><span lang="SL" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">13.00 – 14.00 Lunch </span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span lang="SL" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">14.00 – 15.30 Presentations </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><b><span lang="SL" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">Argumentation, room 1, chair: Michael Lane Bruner, Georgia State Univ., USA </span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><b><span lang="SL" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">Fallacies</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-left: 0.5in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span lang="SL" style="font-family: Wingdings; font-size: 10pt;">§<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span><span lang="SL" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">Logical Fallacies = Rhetorical Fallacies?, Monika Kavalir, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-left: 0.5in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span lang="SL" style="font-family: Wingdings; font-size: 10pt;">§<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span><span lang="SL" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">Aristotle and »ad hominem« arguments, Boris Vezjak, University of Maribor, Slovenia</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-left: 0.5in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span lang="SL" style="font-family: Wingdings; font-size: 10pt;">§<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span><span lang="SL" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">»Begging the question« in a philosophical argument - epistemic or pragmatic?, Danilo Šuster, University of Maribor, Slovenia</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><b><span lang="SL" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">Debate, room 2, Allan Louden, Wake Forest University, USA</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><b><span lang="SL" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">States of Debating in the USA </span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-left: 0.5in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span lang="SL" style="font-family: Wingdings; font-size: 10pt;">§<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span><span lang="SL" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">When classes collide – suburban and inner city debater, Chris Wheatly, Aspen Colorado Schools, USA</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-left: 0.5in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span lang="SL" style="font-family: Wingdings; font-size: 10pt;">§<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span><span lang="SL" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">Failure in the public eye: The need for renewed engagement of the public sphere in academic debate communities within the United States, Taylor Hahn, Clarion University of Pennsylvannia, USA</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-left: 0.5in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span lang="SL" style="font-family: Wingdings; font-size: 10pt;">§<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span><span lang="SL" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">Outcome based life choices: An outcome assessment comfirmation study measuring positive social outcomes beyond undergraduate experiences for participants and society in competitive intercollegiate debate, Jack E. Rogers, Department of communication, University of Central Missouri and Arthur Rennels, Interim Director of Forensics, University of Central Missouri, USA</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><b><span lang="SL" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">Pedagogy, room 3, chair David Williams</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><b><span lang="SL" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">New Approaches to Active Education</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-left: 0.5in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span lang="SL" style="font-family: Wingdings; font-size: 10pt;">§<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span><span lang="SL" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">Critical understanding as an issue of problem solving in mathematics and physics education, Patronis Tasos, University of Patras and Rousiakis George, Greece </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-left: 0.5in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span lang="SL" style="font-family: Wingdings; font-size: 10pt;">§<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span><span lang="SL" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">Numerical thinking, Simon Belak, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-left: 0.5in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span lang="SL" style="font-family: Wingdings; font-size: 10pt;">§<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span><span lang="SL" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">Theory of knowledge versus debate – parallel universes or two sides of the same coin, Matus Kurian, Gymnazium Jura Hronca/Slovak Debate Association, Slovakia </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><i><span lang="SL" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">15.30 – 16.00 Coffee break </span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><b><span lang="SL" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">16.00 – 17.30. Sam Greenland, Keynote, Main Auditorium</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span lang="SL" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">18.00 – 19.30 Presentations </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><b><span lang="SL" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">Debate, room 1, chair Samo Novak, University of Leiden, Netherlands</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><b><span lang="SL" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">Active Learning About Communities and Minorities </span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-left: 0.5in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span lang="SL" style="font-family: Wingdings; font-size: 10pt;">§<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span><span lang="SL" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">Debate as a praxis for global citizenship, Anja Šerc, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia and Alfred C Snider, University of Vermont, USA </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-left: 0.5in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span lang="SL" style="font-family: Wingdings; font-size: 10pt;">§<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span><span lang="SL" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">An approach to analysis on discourse toward minority, Masako Suzuki Takahashi, Research Center for Foreign Language Education, Keio University, Japan</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><b><span lang="SL" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">Debate, room 2, chair George Yeoman, UK/Slovenia</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><b><span lang="SL" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">Encounter Society Through Debate</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-left: 0.5in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span lang="SL" style="font-family: Wingdings; font-size: 10pt;">§<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span><span lang="SL" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">Youth understanding politics – how youth initiatives can create an impact in society with debate, Monika Sobočan, University of Maribor </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-left: 0.5in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span lang="SL" style="font-family: Wingdings; font-size: 10pt;">§<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span><span lang="SL" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">Why do people start debating? Helena Felc, Slovenia </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-left: 0.5in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span lang="SL" style="font-family: Wingdings; font-size: 10pt;">§<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span><span lang="SL" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">Debate as a tool response for Venezuelan situation, Alejandro Duque, Universidad Central de Venezuela</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><b><span lang="SL" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">Pedagogy, room 3, chair Anja Šerc, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia/Za in proti, zavod za kulturo dialoga, Slovenia</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><b><span lang="SL" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">Designing and Implementing Debating in Schools </span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-left: 0.5in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span lang="SL" style="font-family: Wingdings; font-size: 10pt;">§<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span><span lang="SL" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">Secondary schools debates with visiting experts or how to implement debate in the interdisciplinary approach of curriculum and empower youth for active citizenship, Romana Čemažar, Gimnazija ESIC Kranj, Slovenia </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-left: 0.5in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span lang="SL" style="font-family: Wingdings; font-size: 10pt;">§<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span><span lang="SL" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">Culture of debate in High school Domžale, Sofija Baskarad, Srednja šola Domžale, Slovenija </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-left: 0.5in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span lang="SL" style="font-family: Wingdings; font-size: 10pt;">§<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span><span lang="SL" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">Tayloring debate formats for your specific educational goals, Manuele de Conti, University of Padua, Italy </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><b><span lang="SL" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">20.00 BANQUET<br clear="ALL" style="page-break-before: always;" /> Sunday, 24th October </span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span lang="SL" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">10.00 – 11.30 Presentations </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><b><span lang="SL" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">Argumentation, room 1, chair David Cratis Williams, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, Florida, USA</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">Critical Thinking and Debate</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-left: 0.5in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-family: Wingdings; font-size: 10pt;">§<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">Reason in the Balance: Teaching Critical Thinking as Inquiry, Sharon Bailin, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, Canada and Mark Battersby, Capilano University, Vancouver, Canada</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-left: 0.5in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-family: Wingdings; font-size: 10pt;">§<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">Rhetoric, oratory and philosophy in the debate, Cattani Adelino, Padua, Italy</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><b><span lang="SL" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">Debate, room 2, chair Bojana Skrt, Za in proti, zavod za kulturo dialoga Slovenia</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><b><span lang="SL" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">Debating Scenarios on Three Continents: Europe, East Africa and Japan </span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-left: 0.5in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span lang="SL" style="font-family: Wingdings; font-size: 10pt;">§<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span><span lang="SL" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">The transfer from debater to coach – how experienced debaters can contribute to the quality of high school debate education, Monika Sobočan, University of Maribor, Slovenia </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-left: 0.5in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span lang="SL" style="font-family: Wingdings; font-size: 10pt;">§<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span><span lang="SL" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">Debate for Youth Empowerment in East Africa, Takako Mino, Claremont McKenna College, USA</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-left: 0.5in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span lang="SL" style="font-family: Wingdings; font-size: 10pt;">§<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span><span lang="SL" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">Debate in Japan, Andrew Nishizaki, Japan</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><b><span lang="SL" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">Pedagogy, room 3, chair Masako Suzuki Takahashi, Research Center for Foreign Language Education, Keio University, Japan</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><b><span lang="SL" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">Using Debate in the Classroom</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-left: 0.5in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span lang="SL" style="font-family: Wingdings; font-size: 10pt;">§<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span><span lang="SL" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">Teaching rhetoric at continuining education courses, Boštjan Debelak, Ljudska univerza Koper, Slovenia </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-left: 0.5in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span lang="SL" style="font-family: Wingdings; font-size: 10pt;">§<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span><span lang="SL" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">Instructional Communication as a rhetorical process: political speech as a model of persuasion to be taught and studied, Irina Antonova, Russian State University for the Humanities, Moscow, Russia</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-left: 0.5in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-family: Wingdings; font-size: 10pt;">§<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">Active methods and debate in a classroom, Karlina Koželj, High school for tourism Celje, Slovenia</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-left: 0.5in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span lang="SL" style="font-family: Wingdings; font-size: 10pt;">§<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span><span lang="SL" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">Debate in the classroom, successful experience in Venezuela, Arlan A. Narvaez R., Universidad Central de Venezuela, Venezuela</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><i><span lang="SL" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">11.30 – 12.00 Coffee break </span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span lang="SL" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">12.00 – 13.30 Presentations</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><b><span lang="SL" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">Argumentation, room 1, chair David Cratis Williams, Florida Atlantic University, USA</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-left: 0.5in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-family: Wingdings; font-size: 10pt;">§<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">Philosophizing Without Argument, Nenad Miščević, Central University Budapest, Hungary </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-left: 0.5in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-family: Wingdings; font-size: 10pt;">§<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">Level of Generality as a Rhetoric Device, Katarzyna Kobos, University of Lodz</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><b><span lang="SL" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">Debate, room 2, chair Steven Woods, Western Washington University,Bellingham, WA, USA</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><b><span lang="SL" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">Different Paths to Debate in the USA </span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-left: 0.5in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span lang="SL" style="font-family: Wingdings; font-size: 10pt;">§<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span><span lang="SL" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">National policy debate circuit in U.S.A, Chris Wheatly, Aspen, Colorado Schools, USA </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-left: 0.5in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span lang="SL" style="font-family: Wingdings; font-size: 10pt;">§<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span><span lang="SL" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">Debate as transformative experience, Amanda Feller and Kelly Ryan, Pacific Luthern University, </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-left: 0.5in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span lang="SL" style="font-family: Wingdings; font-size: 10pt;">§<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span><span lang="SL" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">Negotiating expertise: Translating debate techne into community practice, Jeff Kurr and John Ried, University of Pittsburgh</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><b><span lang="SL" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">Pedagogy, room 3, Allan Louden, Wake Forest University, USA</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><b><span lang="SL" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">Training Citizens and Training Debaters </span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-left: 0.5in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span lang="SL" style="font-family: Wingdings; font-size: 10pt;">§<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span><span lang="SL" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">An argumentation and debate text book for not debaters: Understanding Argument: the journey from consumer to critic, critic to advocate, Korry Harvey </span><span lang="SL" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">and Paul Bingham</span><span lang="SL" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">, Western Washington University, USA </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-left: 0.5in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span lang="SL" style="font-family: Wingdings; font-size: 10pt;">§<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span><span lang="SL" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">Training model: Debate academy, Alfred C Snider, University of Vermont, USA and Bojana Skrt, Slovenia </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><b><span lang="SL" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">13.30 Closing, Main Auditorium</span></b></div>Alfred Charles Sniderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16478595639198105911noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1527681249852282693.post-15419126351141352112010-09-06T16:25:00.000-04:002010-09-06T16:25:15.963-04:00WDI Sponsors Conference in Europe<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi4xjiKC5dNaWaZw-51FD-TrLAUak20TCLPIyaDfbHrJc-dApz9a7ZvXurhN9a839JWYToyyaF85LNS0mMGzLjUvLcUFR7ekyIj1C7C9Bymy3G1VU0EK56REykUIHFk0Dri7CBWFR9FRc4/s1600/shapeimage_1.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="226" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi4xjiKC5dNaWaZw-51FD-TrLAUak20TCLPIyaDfbHrJc-dApz9a7ZvXurhN9a839JWYToyyaF85LNS0mMGzLjUvLcUFR7ekyIj1C7C9Bymy3G1VU0EK56REykUIHFk0Dri7CBWFR9FRc4/s400/shapeimage_1.png" width="400" /></a></div>The Third International Conference on Argumentation, Rhetoric, Debate and the Pedagogy of Empowerment -- THINKING AND SPEAKING A BETTER WORLD will take place in <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/maribor" href="http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=46.55,15.65&spn=0.1,0.1&q=46.55,15.65%20%28Maribor%29&t=h" rel="geolocation nofollow" title="Maribor">Maribor</a>, <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/slovenia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slovenia" rel="wikipedia nofollow" title="Slovenia">Slovenia</a> on October 22-23-24 2010. Full information can be found at <a href="http://debate.uvm.edu/debateblog/better/Welcome.html">http://debate.uvm.edu/debateblog/better/Welcome.html</a><br />
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The conference in sponsored by ZIP Slovenia, World Debate Institute USA and the University of Maribor.<br />
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We have some exciting news to share with you:<br />
<ul><li>Boris Vezjak, Department of Philosophy, Faculty of Arts, University of Maribor, Slovenia has been working hard to host us, with Peter Mesarec assisting him. </li>
<li>We have over 55 papers from 19 countries accepted with more coming in and under revision. </li>
<li>The conference has a major sponsor, and we will announce the new sponsor as soon as the agreement is finalized.</li>
<li>The conference has a site for the next year, and it will be an exotic one. Again, as soon as the agreement is finalized it will be announced officially.</li>
<li>The sponsor will be publishing a book of accepted papers from the first three conferences (<a class="zem_slink freebase/en/koper_-_capodistria" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koper" rel="wikipedia nofollow" title="Koper">Koper</a>, <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/ljubljana" href="http://www.ljubljana.si/" rel="homepage nofollow" title="Ljubljana">Ljubljana</a> and now Maribor). If you would like to be a part of this publication, now is the time to act and submit an abstract.</li>
<li>Our three keynote speakers <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/rastko_mo_nik" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rastko_Mo%C4%8Dnik" rel="wikipedia nofollow" title="Rastko Močnik">Rastko Mocnik</a>, Debbie Newman and Sam Greenland have accepted and confirmed. Read about them at <a href="http://debate.uvm.edu/debateblog/better/Keynotes.html">http://debate.uvm.edu/debateblog/better/Keynotes.html</a></li>
<li>Beautiful city, good hosting, stimulating colleagues all go together to make this an event not to be missed. </li>
</ul>There is still time to submit an abstract and to be included in the conference. The program will be finalized on October 1 2010. See instructions on how to make a submission at <a href="http://debate.uvm.edu/debateblog/better/Submissions.html">http://debate.uvm.edu/debateblog/better/Submissions.html</a><br />
If you have questions, please contact me, alfred.snider@uvm.edu .<br />
See you there!<br />
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View debates (beginning at the end of this week) at <a href="http://debate.uvm.edu/debateblog/worldcup/">http://debate.uvm.edu/debateblog/worldcup/</a><br />
News and results at <a href="http://worldcupdebates.blogspot.com/">http://worldcupdebates.blogspot.com/</a> (here)<br />
Teams represent their nation in online debating contests against other teams and nations. The format is Australasian 3 on 3. The contest is sponsored by the World Debate Institute, Debate Central, and the new eDebating website coming in 2011.<br />
In the Fall of 2010 a demonstration tournament will be held between eight different teams. The tournament will be double elimination until there is a champion. In 2011 a full and much larger tournament will be held. Judges will be provided by teams and recruited by the World Debate Institute.<br />
When a match has been scheduled and a motion announced, the debate begins with the affirmative team posting its first speech video to http://vimeo.com. The opposition team then has 36 hours to post their responding speech. After all speeches are completed, assigned judges will watch the debate and render a decision without consensus.<br />
Debates may take place in any language agreed to by the two teams, judges will be assigned who understand that language.<br />
Teams for Fall 2010<br />
These teams will be competing in the demonstration phase:<br />
1. CORNELL UNIVERSITY, USA<br />
2. UNIVERSIDAD ANDRES BELLO, CHILE<br />
3. UNIVERSITY OF BELGRADE, SERBIA<br />
4. UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT, USA<br />
5. COMUNIDAD DE DEBATE, VENEZUELA<br />
6. ASSUMPTION UNIVERSITY, THAILAND<br />
7. PEKING UNIVERSITY, CHINA<br />
8. UNIVERSIDAD CENTRAL DE VENEZUELA<br />
A Quick Glance at the Australs Format:<br />
Australs format with no points of information. <br />
Rules for Australs have been taken from: http://www.londonaustrals.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=50&Itemid=57<br />
Here is a summary, but please notice that we will not have points of information in this format because the speeches are sequenced. These are three-person teams, and you can switch team members from debate to debate, but people should be members of your school/organization. <br />
Australs features two, three-person teams taking opposite sides of a motion: the proposition side is called the affirmative, the opposition side is called the negative.<br />
Teams get 36 hours to prepare and post their speech once the previous speech has appeared. A timer will be posted. <br />
Speeches are eight minutes long.<br />
Points of information will not be allowed.<br />
Summaries happen after all six speakers have given their substantive speeches. Summaries are four minutes in length. The negative team delivers the first summary. Either the first or the second speaker may deliver the summary.<br />
Decisions are arrived at by judges individually determining their choice of winner and then casting their vote, not consensus.<br />
Motions:<br />
Rounds 1-4<br />
Now is the time for a <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/state_of_palestine" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_of_Palestine" rel="wikipedia nofollow" title="State of Palestine">Palestinian state</a>.<br />
Rounds 5-8<br />
The press should show the full horrors of war. <br />
Rounds 9-10<br />
Everyone has the right to public nudity.<br />
Rounds 11-12<br />
Give development assistance only to nations with democratic governments.<br />
Round 13<br />
Substantially increase inheritance taxes.<br />
Round 14<br />
Governments should set a maximum wage.<br />
Round 15 (if needed)<br />
It is time to use military force in Somalia. <br />
SEPTEMBER 2010 (judges will be assigned soon, the debate is judged after it concludes)<br />
DEBATE 1 – LOSER TO A<br />
AFF: Assumption Univ.<br />
NEG: Peking Univ.<br />
JUDGES:<br />
DEBATE 2 – LOSER TO B<br />
AFF: University of <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/belgrade" href="http://www.beograd.rs/" rel="homepage nofollow" title="Belgrade">Belgrade</a><br />
NEG: <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/university_of_vermont" href="http://www.uvm.edu/" rel="homepage nofollow" title="University of Vermont">University of Vermont</a><br />
JUDGES:<br />
DEBATE 3 – LOSER TO C<br />
AFF: Communidad de Debate<br />
NEG: <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/cornell_university" href="http://www.cornell.edu/" rel="homepage nofollow" title="Cornell University">Cornell University</a><br />
JUDGES:<br />
DEBATE 4 – LOSER TO D<br />
AFF: Univ. Central <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/venezuela" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venezuela" rel="wikipedia nofollow" title="Venezuela">Venezuela</a><br />
NEG: Univ. Andres Bello<br />
JUDGES:<br />
OCTOBER 2010<br />
DEBATE 5<br />
A:<br />
B:<br />
JUDGES:<br />
DEBATE 6<br />
C:<br />
D:<br />
JUDGES:<br />
DEBATE 7 – LOSER TO F<br />
WINNER OF DEBATE 1<br />
WINNER OF DEBATE 2<br />
JUDGES:<br />
DEBATE 8 – LOSER TO E<br />
WINNER OF DEBATE 3<br />
WINNER OF DEBATE 4<br />
JUDGES:<br />
NOVEMBER 2010<br />
DEBATE 9 – WINNER TO DEBATE 12<br />
E:<br />
WINNER OF DEBATE 5:<br />
JUDGES:<br />
DEBATE 10 – WINNER TO DEBATE 12<br />
F:<br />
WINNER OF DEBATE 6:<br />
JUDGES<br />
DEBATE 11 - LOSER TO G<br />
WINNER OF DEBATE 7:<br />
WINNER OF DEBATE 8<br />
JUDGES<br />
DEBATE 12 – WINNER TO DEBATE 13<br />
WINNER OF DEBATE 9:<br />
WINNER OF DEBATE 10:<br />
JUDGES:<br />
DEBATE 13 – WINNER TO DEBATE 14<br />
G:<br />
WINNER OF DEBATE 12:<br />
JUDGES:<br />
DECEMBER 2010<br />
DEBATE 14 – LOSER TO H<br />
WINNER OF DEBATE 11:<br />
WINNER OF DEBATE 13<br />
JUDGES<br />
DEBATE 15 – IF UNDEFEATED TEAM LOSES<br />
H:<br />
WINNER OF DEBATE 14:<br />
JUDGES:<br />
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<a href="http://vimeo.com/14167644">Debate - WUDC - Sex in Advertising - Serbia Debate Academy Final 2010</a> from <a href="http://vimeo.com/user1244229">Alfred Snider</a> on <a href="http://vimeo.com/">Vimeo</a>.<br />
This is the final round of the Serbia Debate Academy 2010.<br />
Motion: This House would ban all advertising that uses sex to sell.<br />
First prop: Victor Prija & Slobodan Trivic<br />
First Opp: Teo Radetic & Marko Krajnc<br />
Second Prop: Petros Papaliardis & Fabian Farkas<br />
Second Opp: Goran Januloski & Tijana Mijalkovic (first place)<br />
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The Serbia Debate Academy 2010 was sponsored by Open Communication Serbia, World Debate Institute at <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/university_of_vermont" href="http://www.uvm.edu/" rel="homepage nofollow" title="University of Vermont">University of Vermont</a> USA (<a href="http://worlddebateinstitute.blogspot.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">worlddebateinstitute.blogspot.com/</a>), the USA <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/united_states_department_of_state" href="http://www.state.gov/" rel="homepage nofollow" title="United States Department of State">Department of State</a> and the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe.<br />
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Find the tournament results at<br />
<a href="http://globaldebateblog.blogspot.com/2010/08/university-of-belgrade-wins-serbia.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">globaldebateblog.blogspot.com/2010/08/university-of-belgrade-wins-serbia.html</a> <br />
and also at<br />
<a href="http://debate.uvm.edu/usudc/sda2010/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">debate.uvm.edu/usudc/sda2010/</a><br />
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A program sponsored by the <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/university_of_vermont" href="http://www.uvm.edu/" rel="homepage nofollow" title="University of Vermont">University of Vermont</a> and Kaplan Centers has brought 28 Chinese students to the University of Vermont for a ten week program. These students prepared last year to study this fall in USA universities, and this "bridge" program in the USA at the University of Vermont was designed to complete that process before the students enroll at the university in the fall.<br />
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Continuing Education at the university was involved in designing and implementing the program, and thought that a great last step in this program would be to teach them how to debate. Thus, they called on the World Debate Institute to design and implement a program for the last week of the bridge summer term. "It seemed clear to them and to me," said instructor Alfred Snider of the <a href="http://worlddebateinstitute.blogspot.com/">World Debate Institute</a>, "that if they can debate, then they should also be able to participate in the classroom, asking and answering questions, making presentations and participating in seminars. After being in debates where your positions get attacked logically and where you have to answer difficult questions, most classroom situations will be something that they can handle."<br />
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The students learned the World Universities Debating Championship format, engagedf in <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/public_speaking" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_speaking" rel="wikipedia nofollow" title="Public speaking">public speaking</a>, argument construction and related drills, and then participated in four debates. "I think it was learning the brainstorming process that may have helped them the most, because they saw academic <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/creativity" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creativity" rel="wikipedia nofollow" title="Creativity">creative thinking</a> as it should be -- logical and organized. Plus, they were pretty good at it," said Snider.<br />
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The program used undergraduate debaters as tutors and also created friendships and bonds between students that will help them get oriented in a new environment. "I hope some of them will join the <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/debate" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debate" rel="wikipedia nofollow" title="Debate">debate team</a>," said program English tutor and star debater Sarah Anders, "and several of them have already indicated that they will."<br />
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There are plans next year to expand the program and include college bound high school students as well. <br />
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It was quite an international event, with debaters from Serbia, Greece, Germany, Austria, Slovenia, Romania and the USA. The final round involved students from Serbia, Greece, Germany and Slovenia. But the <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/serbs" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serbs" rel="wikipedia nofollow" title="Serbs">Serbs</a> prevailed.<br />
Goran Januloski and Tijana Mijalkovic won in front of the entire crew and a seven judge panel chaired by Stephen Boyle from Ireland. The team of Petros Papalianos and Fabian Farkas placed second. The other two teams were Marko Krajnc and Teo Radetic of Slovenia and Victor Prija and Slobodan Trivic.<br />
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<o:p></o:p></u></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">BUSINESS TIME (1) 1OPP advances (0n 3-2 vote over 1st Prop)<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">HONEYBUNNY & BOOBEAR (USA) (4) 1PROP<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">ALPSKI SRBI (5) 2<sup>ND</sup> PROP advances<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">FRANZ FERDINAND (Austria) (8) 2OPP<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">JUDGES: MILAN (CHAIR), MANOS, MARKO, JOVANA, NEBOJSA<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">MINDEDJ (Serbia) (2) 1OPP<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">BAILOUT BASTERDS (3) 1PROP advances<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">=3 (6) 2PROP advances<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: small;">WE HATE CUPCAKES </span></span><span style="font-size: small;">(Serbia)</span><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: small;"> (7) 2OPP</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"></div>Speaker Awards:<br />
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<tr><td>1</td><td>Goran Jankoloski</td><td>Business Time</td><td>476</td><td>79.33</td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td></tr>
<tr><td>2</td><td>Teo Radetic</td><td>Alpski Srbi</td><td>467</td><td>77.83</td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td></tr>
<tr><td>3</td><td>Tijana Mijalkovic</td><td>Business Time</td><td>466</td><td>77.66</td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td></tr>
<tr><td>4</td><td>Marija Simic</td><td>Mindedj</td><td>464</td><td>77.33</td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td></tr>
<tr><td>5</td><td>Fabian Farkas</td><td>Bailout Basterds</td><td>455</td><td>75.83</td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td></tr>
<tr><td>6</td><td>Petros Papalianos</td><td>Bailout Basterds</td><td>452</td><td>75.33</td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td></tr>
<tr><td>7</td><td>Stefan Milic</td><td>Mindedj</td><td>451</td><td>75.16</td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td></tr>
<tr><td>7</td><td>Jessica Bullock</td><td>Honeybunny & Boobear</td><td>451</td><td>75.16</td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td></tr>
<tr><td>9</td><td>Emily Barkdoll</td><td>Honeybunny & Boobear</td><td>450</td><td>75.00</td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td></tr>
<tr><td>10</td><td>Viktor Prija</td><td>=3</td><td>443</td><td>73.83</td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td></tr>
<tr><td>10</td><td>Mihai Alexandrescu</td><td>Mocanu-Alexandrescu</td><td>443</td><td>73.83</td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td></tr>
</tbody></table>Results can be found at <a href="http://debate.uvm.edu/usudc/sda2010/">http://debate.uvm.edu/usudc/sda2010/</a><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: small;">Motions were:</span><br />
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">1. THW ban all pornography<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">2. THBT Serbia should immediately recognize Kosovo<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">3. THW tax tobacco and alcohol no more than other consumer goods<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">4. TH supports the outing of gay public figures.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">5. THBT EU should only consider economical factors when admitting new member states<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">6. THW tax religious organizations the same as businesses.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">s. THW give citizens below the poverty tine two votes. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">f. THW ban advertisements that use sex to sell products </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"></div><div class="MsoNormal"></div><div class="zemanta-related"><h6 class="zemanta-related-title" style="font-size: 1em; margin: 1em 0pt 0pt;">Related articles by Zemanta</h6><ul class="zemanta-article-ul"><li class="zemanta-article-ul-li"><a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE66J39C20100720" rel="nofollow">Serbia and Kosovo's EU future clouded as court rules</a> (reuters.com)</li>
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The first night featured a welcome and then a demonstration debate on the motion, This House belieces that governments should hide evidence of contact with extraterrestrials. The debate featured famous Irish debater Stephen Boyle and Slovenian debater Anna Kerr as first prop, Serbian stars Milan Vignevic and Marko Cirovic (cleared at ESL WUDC and ESL <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/european_universities_debating_championship" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Universities_Debating_Championship" rel="wikipedia nofollow" title="European Universities Debating Championship">EUDC</a>) as first opp, WDI director Alfred Snider along with Manos Moschopoulos (top ESL debater in the world at last WUDC) as second prop, and reigning WUDC ESL champions Maja Cimerman and Filip Dobranic as second opp.<br />
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The first three full days will have two lectures, an exercise period, elective classes (students pick from five offered each day) and two critiqued practice debates each day. The event takes place in a lovely mountain valley in three small ski lodges with some debates and other events taking place by babbling springs and lovely trees. The program is divided into beginner and advanced tracks in English, a judge training track and a Serbian language debate track.<br />
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The program will end with a six round tournament, semifinals and finals. Evenings are full of frivolity and good times as is traditional at Serbian debate camps.<br />
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Watch for videos of lectures and debates along with the tournament results.<br />
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Attendees are from Serbia, Slovenia, Greece, Germany, Austria and the USA. <br />
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<a href="http://vimeo.com/13264166">Debate - WSDC - Income Gap & Economic Growth - WSDA 2010 Finals</a> from <a href="http://vimeo.com/user1244229">Alfred Snider</a> on <a href="http://vimeo.com/">Vimeo</a>.<br />
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In the final round 5-0 Team A (Heather Pickerell, Matus Bachen, Jaroslav Leitmann) triumphed in a split decision over 4-1 Beyond Perfect (Mojca Jutersek, Petra Komat, Lenka Habetinova).<br />
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Eighty-six people came from eleven countries to engage in an extremely intensive week of debate training at the Second World Schools Debate Academy in Slovenia, sponsored by Za in Proti, the World Debate Institute and the USA Embassy in Slovenia.<br />
<div id="xxcpw_hidden_arg" style="background-color: transparent; border: medium none; color: black; overflow: hidden; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">Read More: <a href="http://globaldebateblog.blogspot.com/2010/07/world-schools-debate-academy-ends-in.html">http://globaldebateblog.blogspot.com/2010/07/world-schools-debate-academy-ends-in.html</a></div></div>Alfred Charles Sniderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16478595639198105911noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1527681249852282693.post-54902048111607561122010-07-14T03:47:00.001-04:002010-07-14T03:53:46.842-04:00WDI Europe Schools Program Concludes<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEihNSn4xlY4cMhJgLaM6I3dwJVXAxbHHOo99NfefTdyFZklQI4WptJXPoUthLnzXhzEzY2puEC5ag2vvl_Cm2iEre7okBPD9cLgNf27qNu_TKMeuRbwGDGbrMt7O7GD5Ov7F_FkBtz8WuJz/s1600/IMG_1500.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEihNSn4xlY4cMhJgLaM6I3dwJVXAxbHHOo99NfefTdyFZklQI4WptJXPoUthLnzXhzEzY2puEC5ag2vvl_Cm2iEre7okBPD9cLgNf27qNu_TKMeuRbwGDGbrMt7O7GD5Ov7F_FkBtz8WuJz/s400/IMG_1500.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i> View from window at the site</i></div><br />
Eighty-six people came from eleven countries to engage in an extremely intensive week of debate training at the Second World Schools Debate Academy in Slovenia, sponsored by Za in Proti, the World Debate Institute and the USA Embassy in Slovenia.<br />
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The days were full and everyone was kept busy. Students were divided into two groups based on experience and there was also a fairly large group ot teachers who had come for training and they had separate sessions most of the time. Morniong would begin with lectures for each of the three groups. Intensive exercises and drills followed on the theme of the lecture for both student groups. Teachers received additiopnal instruction, often on how to train and methods to use. Then, just before lunch, there would be a one-hour elective on either debating techniques or content areas. After lunch there would be additional electives or time to prep for a motion upcoming. After dinner there would be a practice debate, though on some days they were in the afternoon. About 9:30 or 10 PM things would wind down, depending on the schedule of the World Cup, in which case it might end earlier.<br />
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The faculty included:<br />
<ul><li>Stephen Boyle, now coach at <a class="zem_slink freebase/guid/9202a8c04000641f80000000001b1ec2" href="http://www.uvm.edu/" rel="homepage nofollow" title="University of Vermont">University of Vermont</a>, Irish Times National Champion, quarterfinalist at WUDC Cork debating for <a class="zem_slink freebase/guid/9202a8c04000641f8000000014f353b4" href="http://www.ucd.ie/" rel="homepage nofollow" title="University College Dublin">University College Dublin</a>, winner of Hart House and Yale tournaments. </li>
<li>Maja Cimerman, member of the Team Slovenia at Worlds Schools Debate Championship 2006, 2007 (EFL World Champion <a class="zem_slink freebase/guid/9202a8c04000641f80000000004ec0e3" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Schools_Debating_Championships" rel="wikipedia nofollow" title="World Schools Debating Championships">WSDC</a> Korea, and second speaker ESL at <a class="zem_slink freebase/guid/9202a8c04000641f80000000003dac52" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Universities_Debating_Championship" rel="wikipedia nofollow" title="World Universities Debating Championship">World Universities Debating Championship</a> in Turkey 2010, faculty member at WSDC-Mini ion Qatar 2010.</li>
<li>Filip Dobranic, member of the Team Slovenia at Worlds Schools Debate Championship in 2006, 2007, 2008 (Top EFL speaker at WSDC 2007 Korea and 2008 USA, EFL World Champion WSDC 2007 Korea and 2008 Washington) and first speaker EFL at World Universities Debating Championship in Turkey 2010.</li>
<li>Megan Harlow, European Graduate School, USA. Experienced international trainer back from Iraq Debate Academy, USA national novice policy debate champion. </li>
<li>Anna Mojca England Kerr, member of the Team Slovenia at Worlds Schools Debate Championship 2006, 2007 (EFL World Champion WSDC Korea).</li>
<li>Rhydian Morgan, Great Britain, Chief Adjudictor at numerous tournaments and trainer, faculty member at WSDC-Mini in Qatar 2010. </li>
<li>Samo Novak, Slovenia, former top speaker at IDAS and Slovenia WSDC member. </li>
<li>David Register, University of Vermont, USA, award-winning coach, breaking judge at US Universities Debating Championship 2009.</li>
<li>Bojana Skrt, Za in proti, zavod za kulturo dialoga, Slovenia (EFL Worlds Champion Coach WSDC Canada, Korea, USA; ESL Worlds Champion Coach WSDC Qatar 2010), faculty member at WSDC-Mini in Qatar 2010.</li>
<li>Alfred C. Snider, University of Vermont, USA, award-winning coach, faculty member at WSDC-Mini in Qatar 2010.</li>
<li>Anja Šerc, Za in proti, zavod za kulturo dialoga, Slovenia, Faculty at WSDC-Mini in Qatar 2009. </li>
<li>Vanja Vrecic, Slovenia, member of WSDC world champion EFL team. </li>
<li>Ruth Zisman, Doctoral Fellow at <a class="zem_slink freebase/guid/9202a8c04000641f8000000000056db4" href="http://www.nyu.edu/" rel="homepage nofollow" title="New York University">New York University</a>, USA, award-winning coach.</li>
<li>Barbara Zitek, Slovenia, star university debater. </li>
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<i> Top ten speakers</i></div><div class="style1"><br />
</div><div class="style1"><b>A five round tournament followed with prepared and impromptu motions. Top speakers were:</b></div><ol><li><b>Heather Pickerell, Hong Kong/USA</b></li>
<li><b>Lenka Habetinova, Czech Republic</b></li>
<li><b>Lea Benk, Germany</b></li>
<li><b>Jernej Fink, Slovenia</b></li>
<li><b><b>Mojca Jutersek, Slovenia</b></b></li>
<li><b><b>Zoran Fijavz, Slovenia</b></b></li>
<li><b><b>Eman Al-Musleh, Qatar</b></b></li>
<li><b><b>Ann-Catrin Spranger, Germany</b></b></li>
<li><b><b>Anna-Lisa Funk, Germany</b></b></li>
<li><b><b><span style="font-weight: normal;">Mary Gonzalez, USA</span></b></b></li>
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In the final round 5-0 Team A (Heather Pickerell, Matus Bachen, Jaroslav Leitmann) triumphed in a split decision over 4-1 Beyond Perfect (Mojca Jutersek, Petra Komat, Lenka Habetinova).<br />
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The location was extremely beautiful, nestled in the Julian Alps in the small ski resort of Kransjka Gora. The incredible views and the charming little Slovenian village added immeasurably to the event. <br />
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Everyone looks forward to another great event next year.<br />
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Full results at <a href="http://debate.uvm.edu/dcpdf/wsda10fulltab.pdf">http://debate.uvm.edu/dcpdf/wsda10fulltab.pdf</a><div class="zemanta-pixie" style="height: 15px; margin-top: 10px;"><a class="zemanta-pixie-a" href="http://www.zemanta.com/" title="Enhanced by Zemanta"><img alt="Enhanced by Zemanta" class="zemanta-pixie-img" src="http://img.zemanta.com/zemified_e.png?x-id=b1a8324c-dd48-471b-bb49-362d94172df0" style="border: medium none; float: right;" /></a><span class="zem-script more-related more-info pretty-attribution paragraph-reblog"><script defer="defer" src="http://static.zemanta.com/readside/loader.js" type="text/javascript">
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From Alfred Snider:<br />
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Hello from <a class="zem_slink freebase/guid/9202a8c04000641f8000000000054e64" href="http://www.ljubljana.si/" rel="homepage nofollow" title="Ljubljana">Ljubljana</a>, <a class="zem_slink freebase/guid/9202a8c04000641f800000000003651a" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slovenia" rel="wikipedia nofollow" title="Slovenia">Slovenia</a>. I am here for a couple of events sponsored by WDI and our partner, Za in Proti (NGO for debate in Slovenia).<br />
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First is this weekend in Ljubljana, and it is the Former <a class="zem_slink freebase/guid/9202a8c04000641f8000000000041f5e" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yugoslavia" rel="wikipedia nofollow" title="Yugoslavia">Yugoslavia</a> Debate Conference. Students and teachers from <a class="zem_slink freebase/guid/9202a8c04000641f8000000000054346" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republic_of_Macedonia" rel="wikipedia nofollow" title="Republic of Macedonia">Macedonia</a>, <a class="zem_slink freebase/guid/9202a8c04000641f8000000000039ed4" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serbia" rel="wikipedia nofollow" title="Serbia">Serbia</a>, <a class="zem_slink freebase/guid/9202a8c04000641f800000000000d607" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Croatia" rel="wikipedia nofollow" title="Croatia">Croatia</a>, <a class="zem_slink freebase/guid/9202a8c04000641f80000000000098ca" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bosnia_and_Herzegovina" rel="wikipedia nofollow" title="Bosnia and Herzegovina">Bosnia</a> and Slovenia will be gathering for training and talks on future cooperation. While not a long event it is a great opportunity for everyone to network for the future and gain some instruction.<br />
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On Monday I go to Kranska Gora up near the borders with <a class="zem_slink freebase/guid/9202a8c04000641f800000000001de10" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italy" rel="wikipedia nofollow" title="Italy">Italy</a> and <a class="zem_slink freebase/guid/9202a8c04000641f8000000000003cfc" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austria" rel="wikipedia nofollow" title="Austria">Austria</a> for the second World Schools Debate Academy, also sponsored by ZIP and WDI along with the <a class="zem_slink freebase/guid/9202a8c04000641f8000000000959f60" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States" rel="wikipedia nofollow" title="United States">USA</a> Embassy. I will be joined by WDI regulars David Register, Ruth Zisman, Megan Harlow, Rhydian Morgan and Stephen Boyle for a workshop in the WSDC format for about 80+ people from 10 different countries. This will be a one-week affair, and promises to be one of the most intense debate workshops yet. There will also be a goodly number of teachers and trainers there (about 20 I am told) for instruction. For more info go to <a href="http://debate.uvm.edu/wsda.html">http://debate.uvm.edu/wsda.html</a><br />
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The July-August World Schools Debating Workshop in <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/burlington" href="http://www.ci.burlington.vt.us/" rel="homepage nofollow" title="Burlington, Vermont">Burlington</a> has been cancelled.<br />
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The World Schools Debate Academy to be held in <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/slovenia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slovenia" rel="wikipedia nofollow" title="Slovenia">Slovenia</a> is on 5-12 July 2010. Information can be found at <a href="http://debate.uvm.edu/wsda.html">http://debate.uvm.edu/wsda.html</a><br />
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WDI will also be sponsoring the <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/serbia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serbia" rel="wikipedia nofollow" title="Serbia">Serbia</a> Debate Workshop to be held in Serbia 8-14 August 2010. For information contact Milan at matuljak@gmail.com<br />
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Also, you might be interested in the related offerings at the <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/university_of_vermont" href="http://www.uvm.edu/" rel="homepage nofollow" title="University of Vermont">University of Vermont</a>, the East Debate Institute, with sessions in policy debate and <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/world_universities_debating_championship" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Universities_Debating_Championship" rel="wikipedia nofollow" title="World Universities Debating Championship">WUDC</a> debate. Find information at <a href="http://debate.uvm.edu/edi.htm">http://debate.uvm.edu/edi.htm</a><br />
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