Argumentation network of the AMERICAS
The Argumentation Network of the Americas aims to unite, sustain, and grow the community of argumentation scholars across the Americas.
Jean Goodwin - August 2nd 1PM ET
Jean Goodwin is SAS Institute Distinguished Professor of Rhetoric and Technical Communication in the Department of Communication at NC State University. Her work in argumentation theory has long focused on how people who disagree, perhaps deeply, can nevertheless manage to have a productive exchange of reasons. As a rhetorician, she has largely focused on civic discourse, and in particular how scientists can contribute appropriately to controversial issues. Click HERE for a draft of the Editors' Introduction to Studies in Normative Pragmatics |
Tom Goodnight - July 5th 1PM ET
G. Thomas Goodnight was elected as a distinguished scholar in 2014 by the National Communication Association. Goodnight worked as a professor at Northwestern University from 1975 to 2002 and is currently a professor at USC Annenberg, also since 2002. Goodnight has directed over 50 doctoral dissertations in Communication and Rhetoric, several receiving awards. He is a distinguished mentor whose graduates have led successful careers. A Fulbright Senior Scholar, he has traveled, researched, and spoken at communication programs in Asia, Europe, North America, South America, and Africa. Goodnight works on advanced studies in communication. Presently, these include sustainability and deliberation, resilience and the city, social theories and the cybersphere, and energy diplomacies. In the fall of 2023, he is a Fellow at Fudan University, Shanghai, and a guest scholar at Tsinghua University, Beijing. He is giving reports on nested thinking, network pragmatics, cultural diplomacy, and the political economies of communications. See HERE for a poster on his recent work on AI, argumentation and ethics. Look HERE for an article about the relationship between rhetoric, communication and control in a digitalized world |
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