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  After a long season of competition, we congratulate the participants and winners at this year’s American Forensic Association National Debate Tournament and National Speech Tournament championships.   47th AFA National Speech Tournament @ Lewis & Clark College Alumni/Coaching Awards: MacLain Naumann, Cornell University, Outstanding New Coach Award Dr. Ben Davis, Truman St University, Outstanding…

  After a long season of competition, we congratulate the participants and winners at this year’s American Forensic Association National Debate Tournament and National Speech Tournament championships. 46th AFA National Speech Tournament @ University of North Carolina, Charlotte Alumni/Coaching Awards: Tennisha Sonsalla, Tennessee State University, Outstanding New Coach Award Nick Steinmetz, Illinois State University, Outstanding…

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: Twenty-Second NCA/AFA Summer Conference on Argumentation July 31-Aug 3, 2025 Ronald Walter Greene, green179@umn.edu        NCA/AFA Argumentation Conference 2025 July 31-Aug. 03 Snowbird in Alta, Utah Theme: Arguing Democracy Submission Deadline: February 17, 2025 The organizers of the Twenty-Second National Communication Association/American Forensic Association Summer Conference on Argumentation invite completed…

  Find the latest NDT alumni newsletter here.

The Fall 2024 AFA general business meeting is happening online, November 20, at 6 pm CST https://missouristate.zoom.us/j/86431066935 Meeting ID: 864 3106 6935 There are six AFA panels at this year’s conference. Innovations in Civic Public Debates Thu, November 21, 8:00 AM – 9:15 AM, Regent – 4th Floor Marriott Presentations The civility initiative at the College of…

After a long season of competition, we congratulate the participants and winners at this year’s American Forensic Association National Debate Tournament and National Speech Tournament championships. 2024 AMERICAN FORENSIC ASSOCIATION 78th ANNUAL NATIONAL DEBATE TOURNAMENT   PRE-TOURNAMENT AWARDS The Laurence H. Tribe Distinguished Alumni Award John Patrick Dolan Dean and Founder of the California Desert…

At the 2023 American Forensic Association Annual Business Meeting on November 15, the organization announced winners of its research and service awards. 2022 Winners were not selected soon enough to announce during the 2022 business meeting, so some 2022 and 2023 awards were announced at this year’s meeting. Daniel Rohrer Memorial Outstanding Research Award The Daniel…

AFA Online Executive Council and Business Meetings, All Forensic Organization Meeting The Executive Committee will be meeting online on Wednesday, November 8 (7:00 pm EST). See link below. Second, the AFA Business Meeting will occur online only, during NCA, on Wednesday, November 15 (5:00pm EST). The agenda for the meeting will be released separately, and it will use the…

As you are making plans to register for the upcoming NCA convention, we would like to invite you to an exciting preconference, entitled, “Bridging Freedom and Inquiry: Taking on Tough Issues in the Classroom and Beyond,” held at NCA on Wednesday, November 15 from 8 a.m. – noon.  This preconference will bring together scholar-teachers who…

This special issue is a reflective and retrospective on policy debate 10-years after Emporia State University’s historic and unprecedented triumph of “uniting the crowns,” winning both the National Debate Tournament (NDT) and the Cross Examination Debate Association National Tournament (CEDA) in 2013. With the recent discontinuation of Emporia’s debate program and the third uniting of…