17th Wake Forest University Biennial Argumentation Conference
April 6-8, 2018
Friday, April 6 Wake Downtown, 4th Floor, 4802 Auditorium
9:00-9:30 AM: Welcoming and Opening Announcements
9:30-10:30 AM: Great Teacher and Keynote: “The Hippocratic Turn in Digital Design” Gordon Mitchell, University of Pittsburgh Introduced by Ryan Jarvis (‘18), Wake Forest University
10:45 AM-12:00 PM: Thirty-Five Years of the WFU Argumentation Conference Michael D. Hazen, Wake Forest University David Cratis Williams, Florida Atlantic University G. Thomas Goodnight, University of Southern California Frans van Eemeren, University of Amsterdam
1:00-4:00 PM: Workshop: “Argument by Dasein: Things that EBOLA and Student Debt do Share! Or, Arguing Words & Things” G. Thomas Goodnight, University of Southern California David Hingstman, University of Iowa
4:00-5:00 PM: Great Teacher and Keynote: “More is Not Always Better": Argumentation in Online Healthcare Communication and Cognitive Biases” Sara Rubinelli, University of Lucerne Introduced by Caroline Baisier ('18), Wake Forest University
Saturday, April 7 111 Carswell Hall, Annenberg Forum Wake Campus Map
9:00-9:30 AM: Morning Reception
9:30-10:45 AM: New Directions in Disagreement
"Rhetoric of Secessionism" R. Jarrod Atchison, Wake Forest University Michael Lee, College of Charleston
"The Enigma of Argument in the Current Political Moment" James Klumpp, University of Maryland
"Stop Flossing: The Occasional Absurdities of Standards for Medical Argumentation" Marcus Paroske, University of Michigan-Flint
"Monsters in the Stalls: The Rhetoric of Fear in Anti-Transgender Bathroom Bill Argumentation" Char Van Schenck ('19), Wake Forest University
Chair: Chris Miller (MA '19), Wake Forest University
11:00 AM-12:15 PM: Argumentation and Modern Challenges
“They’re Not Soldiers. They’re Guardians”: An Analysis of Opening and Closing Arguments in the Trial of Dominique Heaggan-Brown" Calvin Horne, Kansas State University
"Injections of Certainty: Web Information-Seeking Across Argument Contexts" Nathaniel Stoltz (MA '12), University of Maryland
"An Ethical Challenge to Persuasion Research: The Importance of Critical Thinking" Dale Hample, University of Maryland
"From Cultural Logic to Cultural Argument: Strategic Maneuvering by Politicians in Late-Night Talk Shows" Menno Reijvan, University of Massachusetts
Chair: Chloe Pearson (MA '19), Wake Forest University
12:15-1:15 PM: Lunch on Your Own
1:30-2:30 PM: Great Teacher and Keynote: “Toward a Theory of Cross-Cultural Argumentation: The Case for Arguments3, or ‘Arguments as Potential’” Takeshi Suzuki, University of Cambridge and Meiji University Introduced by Varun Reddy (‘19), Wake Forest University Carswell 111, Annenberg Forum
2:45-5:45 PM: Workshop: “Developing a Method for Analyzing and Evaluating Argumentative Discourse: The Pragma-Dialectical Perspective” Frans van Eemeren, University of Amsterdam Carswell 102
Free and Open to the Public thanks to the generous support of the Provost Fund for Academic Excellence, the Global Studies Program, and the Department of Communication