CA 17132 European Network for Argumentation and Public Policy Analysis
Closing conference & Management Committee meeting, Lisbon
Dates: Thursday 23 March to Friday 24 March 2023
Location: Nova University of Lisbon – Campus de Campolide
Type/tag: Conference / Workshop
This final conference is dedicated to showcasing and discussing the outputs of the 4.5-year-long project – and planning for the future. Scholarly outputs facilitated by the networking tools of the Action include various EU and national projects won by team members; books, special issues of journals, and jointly produced academic articles. A separate stakeholder panel and junior scholars’ roundtable will further strengthen the Action’s outreach and international profiles of young researchers. All the presentations and discussions will be focused on the problems of argumentation in public policymaking, especially in the context of climate change, energy and public health debates. Various perspectives on argumentation, understood as the discursive practices of giving and taking reasons in the context of doubt and disagreement, will be presented by the scholars who had outstanding contribution to the project over the course of its activities.
DAY 1: 23 MARCH 2023 Auditório B, Reitoria
9:30 – 10:00 Registration, coffee
10:00 – 10:30 Opening
Chaired by Gabrijela Kišiček (University of Zagreb, HR)
Welcome and introductions from the NOVA University Lisbon and COST Action leaders
10:30 – 12:30 Session 1: Main achievements of the COST Action APPLY
Chaired by Mariusz Urbański (Adam Mickiewicz University, PL)
10:30 – 11:00
MARCIN LEWIŃSKI (NOVA University Lisbon, PT)
Basic numbers, books, papers, and reports
11:00 – 11:30
ANNA DE LIDDO (Open University, UK)
SARA GRECO (Università della Svizzera italiana, Lugano, CH)
Presentation of the Project
Augmenting Participation, Co-Creation, Trust and Transparency in Deliberative Democracy at All Scales (ORBIS)
11:30 – 12:00
ELENA CABRIO (Université Côte d’Azur, FR)
MARCIN LEWIŃSKI (NOVA University Lisbon, PT)
Presentation of the Project
ArgumeNtaTIon-Driven explainable artificial intelligence fOr digiTal mEdicine (ANTIDOTE)
12:00 – 12:30
STEVE OSWALD & DANIEL DE OLIVEIRA FERNANDES (University of Fribourg, CH)
Presentation of the Project
Implicit Meaning in Argumentation: Functions, Uses and Norms (IMAFUN)
STEVE OSWALD & RAMY YOUNIS (University of Fribourg, CH)
Presentation of the Project
AMoRe – An Argumentative Model of Rephrase: A Pragmatic and Rhetorical Approach
12:30 – 14:00 Lunch
14:00 – 15:30 Session 2: Normative study of argumentation
14:00 – 14:45
ISIDORA STOJANOVIC (Département d’Études Cognitives, Institut Jean-Nicod, Paris, FR)
How Objective are Moral Statements? A Corpus Study, and Some Implications for Public Policy
14:45 – 15:30
MAEVE COOKE (Department of Philosophy, University College Dublin, IE)
Argumentation and the Anthropocene
15:30 – 16:00 Coffee break
16:00 – 17:30 Session 3: Empirical study of argumentation
16:00 – 16:45
ØYVIND IHLEN (Department of Media and Communication, University of Oslo, NO)
Dealing with Dissent from the Medical Ranks: Public Health Authorities and COVID-19 Communication
16:45 – 17:30
FABIO PAGLIERI (Istituto di Scienze e Tecnologie della Cognizione, CNR, Rome, IT)
The Fallacy of Teaching Fallacy Theory: Theoretical Considerations and Empirical Studies
DAY 2: 24 MARCH 2023
10:00 – 12:30 Junior Scholars’ Roundtable (see the abstracts HERE)
Chaired by Álvaro Dominguez Armas (NOVA University Lisbon, PT)
Room CAN 209
10:30 – 12:30 The Final Management Committee Meeting
Sala do Senado, Reitoria
12:30 – 14:00 Lunch
14:00 – 15:00 Session 4: Work in Progress & Networking Outputs
Auditório A224, CAN
Chaired by Frank Zenker (Lund University, SE; Nankai University, CN)
14:00 – 14:30
SOLMU ANTTILA (VU Amsterdam, NL)
ÁLVARO DOMÍNGUEZ-ARMAS (NOVA University Lisbon, PT)
Hate Speech as a Means of Argumentative Exclusion
14:30 – 15:00
MEHMET ALI ÜZELGÜN (Ibn Haldun University, TR; NOVA University Lisbon, PT)
RAHMI ORUÇ (Ibn Haldun University, TR)
Argumunazara: Exploring Post-Classical and Contemporary Argumentation Theories-Practices
ASSIMAKIS TSERONIS (Örebro Universiy, SE)
MEHMET ALI ÜZELGÜN (Ibn Haldun University, TR; NOVA University Lisbon, PT)
RAMY YOUNIS (University of Fribourg, CH)
Evaluation of Multimodal Argumentation in Environmental Campaign Posters: Weighing Criteria for Effectiveness and Norms for Reasonableness
BARBARA DE COCK (UC Louvain, BE)
SARA GRECO (Università della Svizzera italiana, Lugano, CH)
The Discourse of Digital Activism: A Linguistic Analysis of Calls for Action Concerning the Fashion Revolution
15:00 – 15:30 Coffee break
15:30 – 16:30 SESSION 5: Stakeholder panel
Argumentation in Public Policy: Communication between Science, Media and Policymakers
Moderated by: Jean Wagemans (University of Amsterdam, NL)
Rui Tavares, Portuguese MP and academic, previously MEP
Anders Olof Larsson, Professor in the Department of Communication, Kristiania University College, Norway, specialist in (online) political communication
Iliusi Vega del Valle, Researcher at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, Germany
Walid el Houri, Media editor for the Cambridge Center for Lebanese Studies and previously Lead Editor for openDemocracy, UK / Germany / Lebanon