ISSA 2023

10th Conference of the International Society for the Study of Argumentation (ISSA 2023)

From 4-7 July 2023, the 10th Conference of the International Society for the Study of Argumentation (ISSA) will be held at Leiden University (the Netherlands).

The aim of the ISSA conference is, as always, to draw together scholars from a variety of disciplines that are working in the field of argumentation theory. The Organizing Committee consists of Ronny Boogaart, Henrike Jansen, Maarten van Leeuwen, Roosmaryn Pilgram, and Alex Reuneker. The Planning Committee consists of Frans van Eemeren, Bart Garssen, Ton van Haaften, and Henrike Jansen. The keynote speakers are:

Isabela Fairclough (University of Central Lancashire, UK); abstract
Christopher Tindale (University of Windsor, Canada); abstract
Robert Rowland (University of Kansas, USA); abstract

Contact information: issa23@hum.leidenuniv.nl

Preliminary program

4 July: registration and drinks 15:30-18:00 at the Hortus Botanicus (oldest botanic garden in The Netherlands); you are welcome to visit the Hortus Botanicus (for free) from 10:00
5 July: conference 9:00-17:00; drinks 17:30-19:00
6 July: conference 9:00-17:00; boat trip 17:30-18:30
7 July: conference 9:00-17:00; drinks and dinner 17:30-22:00

Registration, payment, fees

The deadline for early bird registration (including payment) is 1 April. You can register here: https://www.formdesk.com/universiteitleiden/issa23-registration.

After receiving your registration, we will send you a payment link. Please note that the conference registration will only be considered complete after we have received your payment.

We have managed to keep the fees on the same level as in 2018. Fees for early bird registration and payment (before 1 April) are:

regular €375
(PhD) students €200

If you miss the early bird deadline, you can still register and pay, but only until 1 June, and with higher fees:

regular €475
(PhD) students €300.

Venue

The conference will be held in the ‘Lipsius’ building of the Faculty of Humanities of Leiden University: https://www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/locations/lipsius.

From Schiphol Airport it is very easy to travel to Leiden Central Station by train: it takes 16-21 minutes, depending on the type of train, and a 2nd class ticket costs €7. From Leiden Central Station it takes 10-15 minutes to walk to the conference’s venue.

Hotels

We have asked hotels in Leiden to keep rooms available for the conference. You can book them as described. Please see the codes in your acceptance mail. Further note that this offer is available until 4 April 2023!

Ibis Hotel (30 rooms): use a valid credit card; make a reservation via email: H8087-RE@accor.com
Vic Hotel (10 rooms): book via https://www.hotelvic.nl
Tulip Inn (15 rooms): book via https://www.goldengreenhotels.nl
Golden Tulip (15 rooms): book via https://www.goldengreenhotels.nl

You can also book a hotel room in The Hague (Den Haag): it only takes 10-15 minutes by train to go The Hague Central station or The Hague Hollands Spoor, and it costs €4-4,50; trains run every 10-15 minutes. Hotels in Amsterdam are also an option: it is 35 minutes by train from Amsterdam Central station and costs €10,60; you can also travel from Amsterdam-Zuid, which takes 25 minutes and costs €9.

We advise you to not wait too long to book a hotel.

Submission of abstracts

From 4-7 July 2023, the 10th Conference of the International Society for the Study of Argumentation (ISSA) will be held at Leiden University (the Netherlands). Leiden University is the oldest university of the Netherlands. It is situated at the centre of the historic town of Leiden. Leiden is very close to Schiphol Airport, The Hague, and Amsterdam, from which it can be reached by train in less than 30 minutes.

The aim of the ISSA conference is, as always, to draw together scholars from a variety of disciplines that are working in the field of argumentation theory. The Planning Committee consists of Frans van Eemeren, Bart Garssen, Ton van Haaften, and Henrike Jansen. The keynote speakers are:

Isabela Fairclough (University of Central Lancashire, UK)
Christopher Tindale (University of Windsor, Canada)
Robert Rowland (University of Kansas, USA)

The planning committee of the 10th ISSA Conference invites presentations of original, non-published work on argumentation. Argumentation theorists, (informal) logicians, discourse analysts, communication scholars, rhetoricians, legal scholars, AI scholars, and other scholars involved in the study of argumentation are all encouraged to take part. Although we already received a large number of abstracts, upon the request of a number of potential participants, the deadline for sending in abstracts has been postponed to 1 January 2023. You can submit your abstract by clicking on the button below.

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