Lecture - WSDC & WUDC - Debating Immigration - Register at WSDA 2010

Lecture - WSDC & WUDC - Debating Immigration - Register at WSDA 2010 from Alfred Snider on Vimeo.

David Register talks to debaters about how to debate immigration issues. He is an internationally renowned debate trainer and faculty member in Speech Communication and Debate at the University of Vermont.

This event took place at the 2010 World Schools Debate Academy held in Kranjska Gora, Slovenia during early July 2010. The event was attended by 85 people.

For more information and to learn how to attend future programs, please consult the main website at debate.uvm.edu/wsda.html

Sponsors included:
ZIP Slovenia zainproti.com
World Debate Institute worlddebateinstitute.blogspot.com/
Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Government of Slovenia mzz.gov.si
Ministry of Education, Office of Youth, Government of Slovenia
USA Embassy, Ljubljana, Slovenia
Republic of Slovenia, Office of Communication

Lecture - WSDC & WUDC - Fallacy List - Snider at WSDA 2010

Lecture - WSDC & WUDC - Fallacy List - Snider at WSDA from Alfred Snider on Vimeo.

Alfred Snider talks to debaters about common fallacies of argument, how to detect them, how to answer them. He is an internationally renowned debate trainer and Director of the World Debate Institute and the Lawrence Debate Union at the University of Vermont. debate.uvm.edu/acsprosevita.doc

This event took place at the 2010 World Schools Debate Academy held in Kranjska Gora, Slovenia during early July 2010. The event was attended by 85 people.

For more information and to learn how to attend future programs, please consult the main website at debate.uvm.edu/wsda.html

Sponsors included:
ZIP Slovenia zainproti.com
World Debate Institute worlddebateinstitute.blogspot.com/
Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Government of Slovenia mzz.gov.si
Ministry of Education, Office of Youth, Government of Slovenia
USA Embassy, Ljubljana, Slovenia
Republic of Slovenia, Office of Communication

Lecture - WSDC - Prep for Impromptu Motions - Morgan at WSDA 2010

Lecture - WSDC - Prep for Impromptu Motions - Morgan from Alfred Snider on Vimeo.

G. Rhydian Morgan talks to debaters about how to use preparation time before a WSDC impromptu debate. He is an internationally renowned debate trainer and a professional communications consultant with Stylus Communications.

This event took place at the 2010 World Schools Debate Academy held in Kranjska Gora, Slovenia during early July 2010. The event was attended by 85 people.

For more information and to learn how to attend future programs, please consult the main website at debate.uvm.edu/wsda.html

Sponsors included:
ZIP Slovenia zainproti.com
World Debate Institute worlddebateinstitute.blogspot.com/
Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Government of Slovenia mzz.gov.si
Ministry of Education, Office of Youth, Government of Slovenia
USA Embassy, Ljubljana, Slovenia
Republic of Slovenia, Office of Communication

Lecture - WSDC & WUDC - Against Development - Snider at WSDA 2010

Lecture - WSDC & WUDC - Against Development - Snider at WSDA 2010 from Alfred Snider on Vimeo.

Alfred Snider talks to students about the case against development. The mainstream media is full of arguments in favor of development so this is a response to all of that. He is an internationally renowned debate trainer and Director of the World Debate Institute and the Lawrence Debate Union at the University of Vermont. debate.uvm.edu/acsprosevita.doc

This event took place at the 2010 World Schools Debate Academy held in Kranjska Gora, Slovenia during early July 2010. The event was attended by 85 people.

For more information and to learn how to attend future programs, please consult the main website at debate.uvm.edu/wsda.html

Sponsors included:
ZIP Slovenia zainproti.com
World Debate Institute worlddebateinstitute.blogspot.com/
Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Government of Slovenia mzz.gov.si
Ministry of Education, Office of Youth, Government of Slovenia
USA Embassy, Ljubljana, Slovenia
Republic of Slovenia, Office of Communication

Lecture - WSDC & WUDC - Training for Argument - WSDA 2010

Lecture - WSDC & WUDC - Training for Argument - WSDA 2010 from Alfred Snider on Vimeo.

Alfred Snider talks to teachers about how he teaches argumentation to debaters. He is an internationally renowned debate trainer and Director of the World Debate Institute and the Lawrence Debate Union at the University of Vermont. debate.uvm.edu/acsprosevita.doc

This event took place at the 2010 World Schools Debate Academy held in Kranjska Gora, Slovenia during early July 2010. The event was attended by 85 people.

For more information and to learn how to attend future programs, please consult the main website at debate.uvm.edu/wsda.html

Sponsors included:
ZIP Slovenia zainproti.com
World Debate Institute worlddebateinstitute.blogspot.com/
Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Government of Slovenia mzz.gov.si
Ministry of Education, Office of Youth, Government of Slovenia
USA Embassy, Ljubljana, Slovenia
Republic of Slovenia, Office of Communication

Lecture - WSDC - Introduction to WSDC Format

Lecture - WSDC - Introduction to WSDC Format from Alfred Snider on Vimeo.

Maja Cimernan and Anja Serc of ZIP Slovenia introduce some beginning debaters to the World Schools Debating Championship format. Both are veterans of WSDC competition, Maja was WSDC EFL world champion and European Universities ESL champion 2010.

This event took place at the 2010 World Schools Debate Academy held in Kranjska Gora, Slovenia during early July 2010. The event was attended by 85 people.

For more information and to learn how to attend future programs, please consult the main website at debate.uvm.edu/wsda.html

Sponsors included:
ZIP Slovenia zainproti.com
World Debate Institute worlddebateinstitute.blogspot.com/
Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Government of Slovenia mzz.gov.si
Ministry of Education, Office of Youth, Government of Slovenia
USA Embassy, Ljubljana, Slovenia
Republic of Slovenia, Office of Communication

Discussion - Debate About Debates - in Several Balkan Languages

"Debate about debates" - Title: Youth, eudcation, human and minroity rights from Alfred Snider on Vimeo.

I got this while at the Former Yugoslavia Debate Conference in July 2010 in Ljubljana. It is one of the many television programs of the Bosnia-Herzegovina debating organization.

Thanks, Selma!

Debate - WUDC - Rights to Higher Primates - ESL Semifinals Euros 2010

THW grant higher primates rights equivalent to those of human children.

Not sure whop debated each other, as this is a feed from iDebate and they list nothing, but I do not that Ljubljana A (first prop) advances.

From http://bambuser.com/channel/iDebate/broadcast/890959

Debate - WSDC - Income Gap vs, Economic Growth - WSDA 10 Final

Debate - WSDC - Income Gap & Economic Growth - WSDA 2010 Finals from Alfred Snider on Vimeo.

In the final round 5-0 Team A (Heather Pickerell, Matus Bachen, Jaroslav Leitmann) triumphed in a split decision over 4-1 Beyond Perfect (Mojca Jutersek, Petra Komat, Lenka Habetinova).

Read More: http://globaldebateblog.blogspot.com/2010/07/world-schools-debate-academy-ends-in.html

Eighty-six people came from eleven countries to engage in an extremely intensive week of debate training at the Second World Schools Debate Academy in Slovenia, sponsored by Za in Proti, the World Debate Institute and the USA Embassy in Slovenia.

Read More: http://globaldebateblog.blogspot.com/2010/07/world-schools-debate-academy-ends-in.html

 

Debate Documentary Shows USA Policy Debate

From http://www.debateteamdocumentary.com/

Debate Team is a documentary exploring the weird subculture of competitive college debate. Competitors battle at 360 words per minute, hauling around mountains of evidence called “cards” and nearly every debate ends in global nuclear annihilation. 

The Documentary premiered at the San Francisco Documentary Film Festival in 2008 and then made it's television premiere on KQED, Public Television for the Bay Area in 2009. The film won critical praise from the San Francisco Chronicle, earning four out of five stars.

Debate - Public - Reject Obama's Nuclear Power Plant Proposal

Debate on Obama's Nuclear Reactor Policy from Steve Llano on Vimeo.

A debate held on the St. John's University Campus in early April with the Earth Club.

The motion: This House would refuse Obama's Nuclear Energy proposal.

Debating are St John's University students from the Debate Society and the Earth Club.

Video by Steve Llano, St. Jophn's University.

Debate - WUDC - Military Coups Over Corrupt Democracy

Ithaca College: Semifinal Round [Spring 2010] from Steve Llano on Vimeo.

This is one of the semifinal debates of the Ithaca College tournament held in Ithaca, NY in Spring of 2010.

In this debate are:
OP - Hobart & William Smith Colleges
OO - Cornell University ADVANCED
CP - The University of Vermont ADVANCED
CO - Hobart & William Smith Colleges

The motion is:
This house believes that military coups are preferable to corrupt, democratically elected governments.

Video by Steve Llano

Debate - Policy - USA CEDA Nats Finals 2010

See it at
http://puttingthekindebate.com/2010/06/09/ceda-nationals-2010-final-round/

Intelligence Squared Debates Obama's Foreign Policy

To watch more, visit intelligence2.

Last week Intelligence Squared hosted the debate “Obama’s Foreign Policy is a Gift to America’s Enemies."

Bill Kristol argued that Obama has put democracy in retreat and strengthened dictators, to which Simon Schama replied by pointing out that winning today’s wars involves winning over the people, not slaughtering one’s enemies – and that Kristol had supported Sarah “don’t retreat, reload” Palin.

General Jack Keane accused Schama of theatricals and laid out his view of the increased global threat with military seriousness, while Philip Bobbitt claimed that Obama had won back the support of America’s allies and understood his nation’s place in the new world. Con Coughlin said Obama – like Schama, his former professor – was just talk, and that anyone who had seen the situation on the ground would agree that the American president was standing by as the world became more dangerous. But Bernard Henry Levy used his speech to claim that Obama had foreign policy down to a fine art, since he appears to be following the precepts of 6th Century B.C. philosopher Sun Tzu, author of The Art Of War.

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More Videos from UADC 2010

Image via Wikipedia

From Zheng Bo zhengbo@debateclub.cn

This is Zheng Bo from China. I know many of you were looking for videos taken at UADC. I'm sorting out all my videos and the following are what I have for now.
All my UADC videos are uploaded to a video sharing site in China (www.youku.com), I don't know whether you can access it with satisfactory speed. If you run into any problem accessing the videos, please let me know.

List of all the Videos:
http://www.youku.com/playlist_show/id_4505352.html?page=1&mode=detail&ascending=1

R1: Motion: THBT the right to free speech does not extend to offending religions
UADC 2010 R1 ITB1-LSE1

R2: Motion: THBT Doctors should not be forced to perform medical procedures that are against their faith
UADC 2010 R2 UPM1 vs AU2

R3: Motion: THBT post conflict societies should recruit rebel soldiers into state armies
UADC 2010 R3 SMU1-EDIS2

R4: Motion: THW place a prohibitive tax on car ownership.
UADC 2010 R4 CU3-BIPEDS2

R5: Motion: THBT that western liberal democracies should ban online anonymity
UADC 2010 R5 BIPEDS1-DLSU3

R6: Motion: THBT that important characters in movies should be portrayed by actors of the same ethnicity
UADC 2010 R6 DLSU1-NTU1

R7: Motion: THBT the leaders of nations that stockpile agricultural products for economic gain while global hunger persists should be charged with crimes against humanity
UADC 2010 R7 FOLC2-DLSU2

R8: Motion: THBT individuals who have undergone cosmetic surgery should be required to disclose it to anyone whom they want to have children with.
UADC 2010 R8 UM1-NSU1

Pre-Octo: Motion: THBT the WTO dispute regulation mechanism should allow disregarding intellectual property as a form of retaliation to unfair trade practices
UADC 2010 Pre-Octo UPM1-EDIS1

Octo: Motion: THW make environmental protection a legitimate defense in the prosecution of destruction of property
UADC 2010 Octo-Final NUS4-NTU1

Octo: Motion: THW make environmental protection a legitimate defense in the prosecution of destruction of property
UADC 2010 Octo-Final UST1-ADMU2

EFL-Semi: Motion: THBT ASEAN nations should accept Burmese refugees
UADC 2010 EFL-Semi BIPEDS2-EDS1

Semi: Motion: THW fund sex change operations
UADC 2010 Semi ADMU2-NLS1

Grand-Final: Motion: THW Abolish parties based on ethnicity
UADC 2010 Grand-Final NTU1-ADMU2

Enjoy!

Best,

Zheng Bo

Director of English Debating Program
Office for International Programs
School of International Studies
Peking University, Beijing, China

Videos from United Asian Debating Championships

From Logan:

Sharing - videos I took of debates during UADC. Enjoy!

Demonstration Debate / Adjudication Test
THBT terminally ill patients should have access to drugs that have not been clinically tested
GOV (Steph, Wen-U, Dai Oba)
OPP (Manaav, Neha, Tian Yian)
http://blip.tv/file/3646484

Round 1
THBT religious organizations should pay taxes on donations received and assets owned
Ateneo 2 vs BRAC 2
http://blip.tv/file/3646409

Round 2
THW Ban treatments that claim to cure homosexuality
NUS 2 vs DU 1
http://blip.tv/file/3646437

Round 3
THW confiscate property of those who cooperated with oppressive regimes after the fall of the regime
BIPEDS vs TWEDS
http://blip.tv/file/3646468

Round 4
THW place a prohibitive tax on car ownership
UST vs EDiS
http://blip.tv/file/3646465

Round 5
THBT the willingness to participate in formal public election debates should be a pre-requisite for candidates running for national office
IITB vs MUIC
http://blip.tv/file/3646485

Round 6
THBT that important characters in movies should be portrayed by actors of the same ethnicity
NLS vs FOLC
http://blip.tv/file/3647077

Round 7
THBT it’s time the US recognize Hamas as a legitimate representative of Palestine
SMU 1 vs IIUM 1
http://blip.tv/file/3647097

Round 8
THW compel children to care for their parents
NUS vs FOLC
http://blip.tv/file/3647113

Pre-Octofinals
THBT the WTO should hold all countries to uniform labour standards
RVCE 1 vs DLSU 3
http://blip.tv/file/3646524

Octofinals
THW make environmental protection a legitimate defense in the prosecution of destruction of property
Ateneo 3 vs UPD 1
http://blip.tv/file/3646554

Quarterfinals
THBT ASEAN nations should accept Burmese refugees
NLS 1 vs MUIC 1
http://blip.tv/file/3646553

Semifinals
THBT gay parades do more harm than good to the gay community
NTU 1 vs Ateneo 1
http://blip.tv/file/3647112

Finals
THW Abolish parties based on ethnicity
NTU 1 vs Ateneo 2
http://blip.tv/file/3647146

Flashpoint Debate Television Celebrates 400 Episodes

Flashpoint 399 - Not Quite 400 from Alfred Snider on Vimeo.


Flashpoint 400 - 400 At Last! from Alfred Snider on Vimeo.

Flashpoint began in 1992 and has continued until this date, 2 May 2010. As we approached episode 400 we decided to do a pair of special shows for 399 and 400. These are those two shows.

This program involves a retrospective and celebrartion of 400 episodes. It features: Kayce Massey, John Meany, Lisa Heller Boragine, Alfred Snider, Sam Natale, Rachel Fabian, Stephen Boyle, and John Sadek. Alli Hamlin was the director and Alex Darr was on camera.


These programs also feature a video collage of previous episodes, a musical photo retrospective, call-in, emails of congratulations and a look ahead to the future.

Flashpoint is a regular program of issues and ideas sponsored by the Lawrence Debate Union at the University of Vermont. http://debate.uvm.edu/debateblog/LDU/The_Team.html

The Flashpoint website is at
http://flashpointtv.blogspot.com/

Flashpoint programs in archive can be found on the ftp site labeled with show number and title (0390showtitle).
http://uvm.edu/~debate/watch

Thanks to Vermont Community Access Media for their support.
http://vermontcam.org/

Over Ten Years of Internet Debating Remembered

Here is the video about the event that started it all, Spring 2000 University of Vermont vs. English Speaking Union All Stars.

Thanks to Karen McGregor for this video.

Lecture - Irish Format - Intro to the Irish Format

Lecture: Irish Times Debate Format from Steve Llano on Vimeo.

A lecture given by the Irish Times Debating Champions in March 2010 at the King's College Debate Society, Manhattan.

Lecturing are Irish Times winners Sean O'Quigley, Niall Sherry, and Niamh Ni Mhaoleoin. The lecture is split between them in this order, with Sean taking basic rules and structure, Niall discussing argumentation, and Niamh considering style in Irish Times debating.

Attending the workshop were students from St. John's University, Queens and students from the King's College, Manhattan.

The Irish Times tour is sponsored by the National Parliamentary Debate Association (NPDA), The Irish Times newspaper, and supported in New York City by the St. John's University Debate Society

Debate - Public - Tie Development Aid to Women's Rights - St. John's vs. Irish National Team

St. John's University Debate vs. Irish Times National Champions from Steve Llano on Vimeo.

The topic for this public debate is: This House believes that international aid should be tied to women's rights.

The teams are:

First Prop - Shreya Bansal and Sara Marron (STJDS)

First Opp - Sean O'Quigley (Griffiths College Dublin) and George Fitzpatrick (STJDS)

Closing Prop - Niall Sherry and Niamh Ni Mhaoleoin (Trinity College, Dublin)

Closing Opp - Alia Bellwood and Korey Pace (STJDS)

Introducing the debate is Dr. Michael Hostetler, Chair of the Department of Rhetoric, Communication and Theater at St. John's University, New York.