Keynote Speakers
The ARGAGE 2024 committee is pleased to announce the confirmed participation of the following scholars:
Prof. Francesca Ervas
Associate Professor of Philosophy of Language at the Department of Education, Psychology and Philosophy, University of Cagliari, Italy
Prof. Francesca Ervas graduated in Philosophy at the University of Padua and obtained her PhD in Philosophy and Theory of Human Sciences at the University of Rome 3. She was a postdoc at the Department of Linguistics, University College London and the Institut Jean Nicod, Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris, and recently Fellow at the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities and Social Sciences, Amsterdam. Her research interests concern issues in Metaphor Theory, Argumentation Theory, Experimental Pragmatics, Translation Theory, and Social robotics. She teaches Theories of languages and communication and Pragmatics of Language in the EDUC Alliance framework.
Prof. Jean Goodwin
SAS Institute Distinguished Professor of Rhetoric and Technical Communication, North Carolina State University, USA
Prof. Jean Goodwin is a rhetoric scholar, focusing on civic argumentation, particularly the communication of science in policy controversies. She is curious about how people reason with each other when they disagree. She is known for her work on normative pragmatics, which investigates the management of disagreement in cooperative and uncooperative settings and has also extensively investigated online deliberative discourse. She is a member of several professional organisations such as the International Society for the Study of Argumentation (ISSA) and has served as a consultant on initiatives by the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the Union of Concerned Scientists to define the appropriate roles of scientists as advocates.
Prof. Annette Hautli-Janisz
Junior Professor of Computational Rhetoric and Natural Language Processing, University of Passau, Germany
Prof. Annette Hautli-Janisz's research in computational linguistics covers a range of topics, with a recent focus on the linguistically-motivated, computational analysis of multiparty discourse. She also serves as PI in two projects: (i) the Inequality in Street-Level Bureaucracy: Linguistic Analysis of Public Service Encounters (PSE), aiming at the systematic exploration of the spoken communication between public officials and citizens, and (ii) the Deliberation Laboratory (DeLab), aiming at improving social media conversations with theoretically-informed state-of-the-art research on AI. She is also an associate member of the Centre for Argument and Technology (ARG-tech) at the University of Dundee, UK, and the founder and head of the Steinbeis Transfer Centre 'Linguistic Data Analysis'.
Prof. Christopher Tindale
Distinguished Professor and Director of the Centre for Research in Reasoning, Argumentation and Rhetoric, University of Windsor, Canada
Prof. Christopher Tindale received his PhD in Philosophy from the University of Waterloo. His primary interests are in Argumentation Theory, Greek Philosophy, and Moral Issues, and he teaches in these areas. He is also co-editor of the journal Informal Logic. In 2001-2002, he was a fellow of the Centre for Interdisciplinary Research at the University of Bielefeld, Germany, as part of a team involved in a research project on Conflict Resolution. His current projects involve the resources that argumentation theory can provide for the problem of extremism and the study of argument and rhetoric in the works of Plato.
Prof. Sandrine Zufferey
Full Professor of French Linguistics, University of Bern, Switzerland
Prof. Sandrine Zufferey obtained her PhD at the University of Geneva, Switzerland, where she taught linguistics and pragmatics for seven years. She then worked as a researcher in Belgium and the Netherlands. She is now working on discourse processing, and more specifically on the first and second language acquisition of discourse connectives. She is more generally interested in cross-linguistic comparisons and the way differences in linguistic encoding between languages affect cognitive processes. She is the author of numerous textbooks such as Introduction to Corpus Linguistics (Wiley), and also recently co-authored a book on the representation of gender through language Le cerveau pense-t-il au masculin ? Cerveau, langage et représentations sexistes (Editions Le Robert).