Psychodebates

05.05.2023

Can we get rid of gender binarism is the title of the second appointment of Psychodebates, a series of academic debates taking place throughout the academic year, organized by the School of Psychology of the University of Padua.

The event takes place on wednesday May 10, at 5 p.m., in the Room 2A, Psico2 building, Via Venezia 14.

The third psycodebate, It is time to re-evaluate exam modalities, is scheduled on May 24, at 4.30 p.m., at the lecture hall T3 Cla building, via Venezia 16.

The academic debates aim to offer the academic community the opportunity to collaborate and interact in a novel and unconventional learning environment.

Debating on a controversial issue promotes self reflection, critical thinking, team building and public speaking skills. Moreover, participating in a debate educates the audience to carefully listen to the arguments of the opponents, to question one’s own position, to value the possibility to change opinion, to refine one’s own argumentation or to incorporate new ones.

Each debate is about a controversial issue (motion). The argumentations and the team of speakers in favour of themotion constitute the “proposition”. Arguments and the team against the motionconstitute the “opposition”.

A moderator (either a professor or a student) chairs and coordinates the whole debate, introduces the motion and the teams, ensures that rules are respected and supervises the traditional final voting. Each speaker has a limited and predefined time (e.g. 3 minutes) to discuss his/her argumentations and convince the audience in favour of his/her position and, thus, that of their team. The debate is followed by a conclusive recap (rebuttal) where one member of each team (e.g., the leader) has the opportunity to respond to the issues raised by the opposite team.

The debate may or may not be followed by brief interventions from the audience, under the lead of the moderator. 
For more details on how an academic debate is structured : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1TSkkxu8on0

For more information, to submit a debate proposal, and/or to participate as a speaker: debate.psicologia@unipd.it