Depauw University

My Lecture at Depauw University on Presidential Debating

Should I go for it?

On this episode, I reflect on what makes the Irish Times debate tour so important to debate worldwide. I also interview the 66th champs over breakfast in New York City on their last full day in America.

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What do olympic figure skating and debate tournaments have in common?

Turns out, not a lot.

But that really shouldn’t be that way. Both are complex events, but one has an international audience.

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This is an interview I conducted with Al in 2004. He’s amazing, and we are all looking forward to his next volume in his history of debate work, the follow up to Inheritance, which I hope to finish sometime. Not soon, but sometime. There’s a lot there!

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the bin welcomes back Matt Stannard to discuss his new project, and his new essay all about the power and potential of non-adversarial debate alternatives.

Matt is a co-founder of CoLab Debate an Oregon-based nonprofit learning center for debate and collaborative leadership. It's a very cool, stimulating, and ambitious project to offer debate education that goes beyond the tournament. 

Matt wrote a post on the Colab Debate website, titled Shouldn't Everyone Debate? that I found fascinating and asked him a bunch of questions about as well! 

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I don’t normally share my actual class lectures publically, but I was pleased with this orientation to debating lecture I recently gave to my public speaking students as an introduction to what “comes next” after you become engaged with rhetoric at the base level of a speech course.

In this lecture I try to orient the class to the idea of debate as a discourse, a part of rhetoric, and try to dissociate debate from the negative assumptions we make about it from our culture of rhetorical poverty.

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In the rhetoric, debate, and argumentation community, we are very happy to have the ALTA conference back.

But where does it go from here?

Let's look at the central issues and importance of ALTA in this episode.