International Debate Academy Bursting with Attendees

Social actiivties every night - this is the Country Exhibition from 2007

Ormoz is a small town in Slovenia. The Hotel Ormoz is a modest facility in the town center. For one week it becomes the lair of university debaters from all over the world.

The Sixth Annual International Debate Academy Slovenia will take place there. Outstanding debate trainers from all over the world will gather to engage in intense instruction and practice with a diverse cross section of the world's debaters. As of now every hotel room is full and every modest space has been set aside as a location for practice debates. They will work and debate in the WUDC format.

GLOBAL DEBATE will be there with on-the-spot reporting. Many videos of instruction and debates will be posted at the DEBATE VIDEO BLOG at http://debatevideoblog.blogspot.com/.

The five days of instruction will be busy, with four instructional sessions and two practice debates each day. The evenings will be kept free for social events, and there will be a lot of them. After the instruction, the entire crew will be bused to Maribor for a tournament to be hosted by the Maribor University Faculty of Law. A tournament champion will be crowned.

Various countries in central Europe will be repreented, but also debaters from Pakistan, Bangladesh, Burma, Malaysia, China, Macedonia, Kosovo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Romania, Ukraine, Germany, Venezuela, USA, Croatia, Serbia, Afghanistan, Bulgaria, Cameroon and a lot more. It will be one of the most international debate gatherings ever.

The program runs from 23 until 3o November 2008. Food, housing, instruction and transportation to the tournament are covered by the 200 Euro fee.

Faculty will include:

• Loke Wing Fatt, Singapore: Well known Asian debate trainer, WUDC breaking judge, honorary professorship North-Eastern University China, SAID Singapore, 4th IDAS.
• Jens Fischer, Germany: Berlin Debating Union, Chief Adjudicator at Europeans, 3rd IDAS.
• Sam Greenland, UK/Hong Kong/Australia: WUDC semifinalist for Sydney, Hong Kong world schools coach, 3rd IDAS.
• Steve Llano, USA: Professor at St. John’s University NY, NE USA Director of the Year, USA National Champion coach, 3rd IDAS.
• Branka Marusic, Croatia: President Europeans Council, IDAS Finalist, 2nd IDAS.
• Rhydian Morgan, UK: Chief Adjudicator and Finals judge at numerous tournaments, Welsh Debating Federation, World Debate Institute faculty 2008, 2nd IDAS.
• Debbie Newman, UK: Past president of Cambridge Union, England & Wales National Champion, former Director of Centre for Speech & Debate at English-Speaking Union, England World Schools coach.
• Alfred Snider, USA: Professor at University of Vermont, Director World Debate Institute, USA Coach of the Year, six recent debate textbooks, 6th IDAS.
• Bojana Skrt, Slovenia: Director ZIP, three times WSDC EFL Champion coach, 6th IDAS.
• Other faculty are now being added, including Nicole Colston from the University of Vermont and Chris Langone from Cornell University.
  

The website is at http://debate.uvm.edu/idas.html

The newsblog is at http://internationaldebateacademy.blogspot.com/

For information, email Bojana Skrt at bojana.skrt@siol.net