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This is the final round of the Serbia Debate Academy 2010.
Motion: This House would ban all advertising that uses sex to sell.
First prop: Victor Prija & Slobodan Trivic
First Opp: Teo Radetic & Marko Krajnc
Second Prop: Petros Papaliardis & Fabian Farkas
Second Opp: Goran Januloski & Tijana Mijalkovic (first place)
Students from China who participated in the "bridge" program stand in from of the Vermont state capitol
A program sponsored by the University of Vermont 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.
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 World Debate Institute, "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."
The students learned the World Universities Debating Championship format, engagedf in public speaking, 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 creative thinking as it should be -- logical and organized. Plus, they were pretty good at it," said Snider.
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 debate team," said program English tutor and star debater Sarah Anders, "and several of them have already indicated that they will."
There are plans next year to expand the program and include college bound high school students as well.
Finalists: Goran, Fabian, Petros, Slobodan, Viktor, Marko; Tijana and Teo in front
The Serbia Debate Academy was sponsored by Open Communication Serbia, The World Debate Institute at the University of Vermont, the US Department of State and the Organization for Cooperation and Security in Europe. It concluded with a tournament on Friday.
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 Serbs prevailed.
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.
Semifinal Results:
BUSINESS TIME (1) 1OPP advances (0n 3-2 vote over 1st Prop)
HONEYBUNNY & BOOBEAR (USA) (4) 1PROP
ALPSKI SRBI (5) 2ND PROP advances
FRANZ FERDINAND (Austria) (8) 2OPP
JUDGES: MILAN (CHAIR), MANOS, MARKO, JOVANA, NEBOJSA
In the cool mountains of southern Serbia, in a tiny town call Brzece, the 2nd annual Serbian Debate Academy has begun. The instruction is in English and Serbian, for university students, and the debate format used is WUDC. The program is sponsored by Open Communication Serbia, the World Debate Institute of the University of Vermont, the US Department of State and the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe.
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 EUDC) 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.
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.
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.
Watch for videos of lectures and debates along with the tournament results.
Attendees are from Serbia, Slovenia, Greece, Germany, Austria and the USA.
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).
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.
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.
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.
The faculty included:
Stephen Boyle, now coach at University of Vermont, Irish Times National Champion, quarterfinalist at WUDC Cork debating for University College Dublin, winner of Hart House and Yale tournaments.
Maja Cimerman, member of the Team Slovenia at Worlds Schools Debate Championship 2006, 2007 (EFL World Champion WSDC Korea, and second speaker ESL at World Universities Debating Championship in Turkey 2010, faculty member at WSDC-Mini ion Qatar 2010.
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.
Megan Harlow, European Graduate School, USA. Experienced international trainer back from Iraq Debate Academy, USA national novice policy debate champion.
Anna Mojca England Kerr, member of the Team Slovenia at Worlds Schools Debate Championship 2006, 2007 (EFL World Champion WSDC Korea).
Rhydian Morgan, Great Britain, Chief Adjudictor at numerous tournaments and trainer, faculty member at WSDC-Mini in Qatar 2010.
Samo Novak, Slovenia, former top speaker at IDAS and Slovenia WSDC member.
David Register, University of Vermont, USA, award-winning coach, breaking judge at US Universities Debating Championship 2009.
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.
Alfred C. Snider, University of Vermont, USA, award-winning coach, faculty member at WSDC-Mini in Qatar 2010.
Anja Šerc, Za in proti, zavod za kulturo dialoga, Slovenia, Faculty at WSDC-Mini in Qatar 2009.
Vanja Vrecic, Slovenia, member of WSDC world champion EFL team.
Ruth Zisman, Doctoral Fellow at New York University, USA, award-winning coach.
Barbara Zitek, Slovenia, star university debater.
Top ten speakers
A five round tournament followed with prepared and impromptu motions. Top speakers were:
Heather Pickerell, Hong Kong/USA
Lenka Habetinova, Czech Republic
Lea Benk, Germany
Jernej Fink, Slovenia
Mojca Jutersek, Slovenia
Zoran Fijavz, Slovenia
Eman Al-Musleh, Qatar
Ann-Catrin Spranger, Germany
Anna-Lisa Funk, Germany
Mary Gonzalez, USA
First place team (top), Second place team (bottom)
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).
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.
Everyone looks forward to another great event next year.
Hello from Ljubljana, Slovenia. I am here for a couple of events sponsored by WDI and our partner, Za in Proti (NGO for debate in Slovenia).
First is this weekend in Ljubljana, and it is the Former Yugoslavia Debate Conference. Students and teachers from Macedonia, Serbia, Croatia, Bosnia 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.
On Monday I go to Kranska Gora up near the borders with Italy and Austria for the second World Schools Debate Academy, also sponsored by ZIP and WDI along with the USA 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 http://debate.uvm.edu/wsda.html
The avatar of Alfred Snider stands in the debating chamber
Avatar Debating comes to you via the Internet on April 20, 2010. The debate will begin at 8 PM Eastern Time in the virtual world SecondLife.
The debate will take place in the WUDC format. The motion: This House would censor the Internet.
Teams:
First proposition team: Cornell University
First opposition team: Comunidad de Debate Venezuela
Second proposition team: University of Vermont
Second opposition team: St. John's University (NY)
In order to be part of the crowd you will need to:
Teleport by searching for St. John's University and go there.
Go through the main door and lobby and the debating chamber will be on your left as you reach the fountain.
Come early enough to get in, last time the room was full and many could not gain entrance.
If all else fails, just take a swim on the beach in front of the building.
The debate is being organized as a demonstration of how virtual reality technology can create opportunities for debate involving people from various parts of the world in real time at no cost. There will be a follow up debate on May 4. The April 20 debate will be taped and offered for on-demand viewing later.
Thanks to St. John's University for allowing us to use their space. The debate is also being organized by the World Debate Institute at the University of Vermont.
The press can contact:
Steve Llano, St. John's University (NY) llanos@stjohns.edu
Alfred Snider, University of Vermont alfred.snider@uvm.edu
The workshop is for beginners and is debating the national Japanese policy topic, that Japan should terminate the Japan-US security treaty. The workshop is being led by WDI Fellows Bojana Skrt of Slovenia and Alfred Snider of WDI USA.
"The students are very enthusiastic but policy debate can be challenging for new debaters. Four days isn't a lot of time but they seem to be warming to it quickly and showing a lot of knowledge and skill," said Snider.
The program is a continuation of previous programs sponsored by Kyushu University that have included a Bioethics Debate Tournament as well as a parliamentary debate workshop taught by Loke Wing Fatt of Singapore.
POLICY DEBATE WORKSHOP
KYUSHU UNIVERSITY
Friday (1/22)
13:00 - 14:30. Session 1.What is debate, why is it important? Snider
14:50 - 16:20. Session 2.Elements of Debating & Exercises Snider
16:40 - 18:10. Session 3. Debate Education in Europe and the USA Skrt & Snider
Saturday (1/23)
8:40 - 10:10. Session 4.Stock Issues & Duties of the Speakers
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