CAPS2 - CALL FOR PAPERS

Dear colleagues, Dear potential conference participants, Dear participants in CAPS1,

The Conference on Communication and Argumentation in the Public Sphere is organized by a team of professors and Postdoc researchers and hosted by “Dunărea de Jos” University, Galaţi, Romania, in the framework of the DISCORPS CEEX Project, Discourse and Communication in the Romanian Public Space. The theme of the Second Conference is Verbal Communication in the Public Space. The purpose of the conference is to provide background for productive discussion and peer evaluation for Humanities and Social Sciences colleagues who are interested in presenting their work to an audience and meeting people from related fields.

Participation of colleagues in last year’s Conference on Communication and Argumentation in the Public Sphere was a pleasure and an honour for us.

Last year's experience proved that my project of editing the conference volume as soon as possible was not realistic. It is still being edited, with the strong hope that it will be available at the beginning of March. For exclusively personal reasons, it is very late that I am announcing quite informally this year’s edition, which will be smaller and more narrowly directed towards the conference theme, which stays as announced on the conference site, as the dates of the conference itself.

Some changes have been made in the conference format, which is more or less the following:

• Twenty to thirty papers will be selected from the submitted proposals to be presented in successive (and not concurrent) sessions.
• Papers are to be submitted in narrow relation with this year's conference topics. 
• For the conference presentations, languages accepted are: English, French and Romanian
• Presentations last 20 minutes, followed by  questions and answers (5-10 minutes).
• Publication of submitted and accepted papers is possible only in English or French, following scientific review.
• On account of the very late announcement I am making, we will also accept submissions on the conference topics to be later published in our Communication and Argumentation in the Public Sphere Series.

The next announcements on the conference Web  will include further details on fee payment, conference programme and accommodation arrangements. Registered participants whose papers have been accepted for presentation will be informed of any posting on CAPS2 Web.

Scientific Committee:

Elspeth Broady (United Kingdom)
Adela Drăgan (Romania)
Marianne Doury (France)
Anca Gâţă (Romania)
Alain Milon (France)

Organizing Committee – Coordinator, Anca Gâţă, Professor

Adela Drăgan, Assistant Professor
Ion Cordoneanu, Postdoc Researcher
Alina Elena Ganea, Postdoc Researcher
Diana Popa, Postdoc Researcher
Gabriela Scripnic, Postdoc Researcher
Anna Belza, PhD Candidate
Simona Mazilu, PhD Candidate
Daniela Muraru, PhD Candidate