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Day after Cornell
Relaxing at home today since the Uni is closed and thinking about doing some work but probably won’t get around to it. Today’s Kelly’s birthday so that’s the focus of the day. I liked the tournament at Cornell – really well run and I feel like it was the most competitive tournament we’ve had in…
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Cork Worlds Reflections 1 – Consensus Judging
The judges assemble as the pairing scrolls by. So today I just uploaded to facebook all my pictures from Cork. And I caught up on some email and other things. A pretty throw away day, except I picked up lunch for my wife and dropped it off on campus for her, which gave me a…
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Mahabharata – Oldest Debate Ever?
Heard a very good talk today on the Mahabharata. It was delivered by my friend, a professor in the fine arts department, who also happens to have a cubicle, er, office, right across the hall from mine. As a result of this we enjoy chatting and generally procrastinating together from time to time. And Eastern…
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Judging at World Schools
If you are interested in the variety of cultural difference in global debate, the most interesting variance is in how judging is treated. even though I have judged in a number of formats I still enjoy attending training sessions to see the diffences. My assumption is that the judge training will reveal assumptions about debate,…
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World Schools Debate Championships
I’m here for the weekend in Washington D.C. for the World Schools Debate tournament. There are teams from all over the world who went through rigorous selection processes in order to qualify to represent their country at this prestigious tournament. I’m here at the invitation of Professor Tuna Snider who was very gracious to invite…
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JDA Final Day
Yesterday was great – saw a very interesting lecture from David Hingstman on the history of forensics in the law in which he called the current confusion around forensic education (debate and speech) and forensic science a good thing, and something worth preserving a bit of uncertainty about. Especially within the context of a lay-jury…
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The Conference Begins
Today marks the first day of panels and presentations at the JDA Conference here in Tama. Chuo University is hosting, and the hospitality has been superb. Last night kicked off with a talk from Takao Tanase on Rhetoric and Justice in Japan. After that there was a very nice reception at the hotel including wines,…
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A Brief Break at Home
Coming home after 3 weeks away is very nice. I’m sitting here catching up on bad TV and going through some of my mail and stuff like that. The end of a debate workshop is always pretty surreal and somewhat sad, but it’s also a nice marker for me that the next debate season is…
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WDI part 2
The World’s workshop started yesterday and it appears that we have around 25-30 students involved. The first day wasn’t just housekeeping matters and such – we managed to get right into the material and had a very nice practice debate on the motion “This House would ban consumption of tobacco products.” The round I saw…
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Belgrade, Serbia – Dialogue 08
We’ve just completed the week or so long workshop in World’s debate here in Belgrade, and I must say that I was very impressed with the whole event. I wasn’t sure what to expect, but if I did have any expectations, they would have been crushed by the amazing quality of the debates, the students,…
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