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conferences 
Rhetoric and Composition 

The Pennsylvania State University 

The Pennsylvania State University 
announces a conference on Rhetoric 
and Composition, July 7-10, 1987. 
There will be a mixture of plenary and 
special interest sessions in a relaxed 
atmosphere, combining learning, 
leisure, and the opportunity to discuss 
professional concerns with consultants 
and interested colleagues. Topics of 
workshops, papers and panel discus-
sions include: the history of rhetoric, 
writing across the curriculum, literacy, 
evaluation, the composing process and 
many others. The keynote address will 
be delivered by Professor Stanley 
Fish of Duke University. Other an-
nounced speakers are: David Bartho-
lomae (Pittsburgh), Patricia Bizzell 
(Holy Cross), Mike Rose (UCLA) and 
Merrill Whitburn (Rensselaer Poly-
technic Institute). 

For further information write: 

Professor Marie Secor 
Department of English 
The Pennsylvania State University 
University Park, PA 16802 
(814) 865-9155 

SCAI AF A Summer Conference 
on Argumentation 

Alta, Utah - University of Utah 

The fifth Speech Communication 
Association / American Forensics Asso-
ciation Summer Conference on Argu-
mentation will be hosted by the Uni-
versity of Utah at the Rustler Lodge, 
Alta, Utah, Thursday through Sunday, 
July 30 - August 2, 1987 . See the an-
nouncement in the last issue of In-
formal Logic for more details. 

5th International Sonoma Conference 
On Critical Thinking and 

Educational Reform 
Sonoma State University 

The Seventh Annual and Fifth Inter-
national Conference on Critical Think-
ing and Educational Reform will take 

place from August 2 through August 
5, 1987 at Sonoma State University. 
This year's theme is : "Teaching Criti-
cal Thinking : Skill, Commitment and 
The Critical Spirit-Kindergarten 
through Graduate School." Featured 
speakers include: Edward Glaser, 
Robert Ennis, David Perkins, Carol 
Tavris, Arthur Costa, Ralph Johnson, 
John Chaffee, Harvey Siegel, Vincent 
Ruggiero, Alec Fisher, Frans van 
Eemeren and Rob Grootendorst, 
Gerald Nosich, M . Neil Browne & 
Stuart Keeley, Sharon Bailin, Perry 
Weddle, Edward Damer, and Lenore 
Langsdorf. 

Further information can be had from: 

Center for Critical Thinking 
& Moral Critique 
Sonoma State University 
Rohnert Park, CA 94928 
(707) 664-2940 

Argumentation et Signification 
Cerisy-Ia-Salle, Normandy, France 

The European Center for the Study 
of Argumentation (Brussels) has or-
ganized an international conference on 
the theme Argumentation and Signifi-
cation to be held at the Centre Culturel 
International de Cerisy-Ia-Salle 
(France). Featured speakers at plenary 
sessions include: J . Anthony Blair, 
Frans van Eemeren & Rob Grooten-
dorst, J ames Golden, Francis Jacques, 
and Douglas Walton. Round table dis-
cussions will be devoted to: legal 
argumentation, philosophical argumen-
tation, argumentation and pedagogy, 
argumentation and linguistics, argu-
mentation and history, the history of 
argumentation. The language of the 
conference is French. 

For further information, contact: 

Christian Plantin 
Secretaire du Colloque 
Centre Europeen Pour l'Etude de 
I' Argumentation 
143, avo A.-Buyl 
B- 1050 BRUXELLES 
BELGIUM