Main Conferences in Europe

9 - 11 June, 2027 / Brescia, Italy

ARGAGE 2027 – Argumentation and Language Conference

ARGAGE 2027 focuses on human argumentation across languages and cultures, linking linguistics, pragmatics, rhetoric, discourse analysis, and communication sciences.
Key topics include argumentative styles, cultural implicatures, syntactic constructions, argumentation patterns, linguistic education, and intercultural dialogue. The conference also addresses AI and LLM-based argumentative writing, financial and ESG discourse, legal reasoning and reasonableness.

22 - 25 June, 2027 / Warsaw - Poland

10th Rhetoric and Language Conference

The Rhetoric in Society conference series rotates among international universities to foster global cooperation and strengthen scholarly networks. This 10th-anniversary conference, themed “Rhetoric and Language” is a special occasion to celebrate years of shared achievements and envision new directions for rhetorical research and collaboration. As a jubilee event, it also invites deep reflection on the foundational relationship between rhetoric and language – a core concern of rhetorical inquiry that has taken on renewed urgency amid today’s social, cultural, and technological challenges.

28 June - 1 July, 2027 / Sophia Antipolis - France.

6th European Conference on Argumentation–ECA

The European Conference on Argumentation (ECA) is a biennial pan-European initiative aiming to consolidate and advance research on argumentation. After five successful editions, in Lisbon in 2015, Fribourg in 2017, Groningen in 2019, Rome in 2022 and Warsaw in 2025, ECA will be hosted in 2027 by the Inria Center of Université Côte d’Azur, in Sophia Antipolis, France.

23-26 September, 2025 / Warsaw - Poland

5th European Conference on Argumentation–ECA

The European Conference on Argumentation (ECA) is a biennial pan-European initiative aiming to consolidate and advance research on argumentation. After four successful editions, in Lisbon in 2015, Fribourg in 2017, Groningen in 2019 and Rome in 2022, ECA will be hosted in 2025 by the Warsaw University of Technology, in Warsaw, Poland. We aim to attract scholars on argumentation worldwide from various disciplines, dealing with a range of themes and adopting a variety of approaches.

18-21 June 2025 / Zagreb - Croatia

9th Rhetoric in Society Conference

The next RSE conference, Rhetoric in Society 9, will be hosted by the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Zagreb in Croatia on June 18–21, 2025. This year’s conference theme is Rhetoric in the Digital Age and the call for papers is out now – deadline for abstract submission is December 15, 2024.

Argumentation and Language Conference – ARGAGE

The CoRReA (Collectif Romand de Recherche en Argumentation - Universities of Fribourg, Lausanne and Neuchâtel), in collaboration with the Università della Svizzera Italiana (USI), organises every three years since 2015, a conference devoted to the topic of argumentation, approached from the perspective of the language sciences.