Legados de Valladolid

Cal Poly Debate Team and the Department of World Languages and Cultures is pleased to invite your university to send debaters to our first annual Spanish language, public debate entitled Los Legados de Valladolid, March 9th through the 11th, 2018.

The inspiration for this debate is the Junta de Valladolid (1550-1551), the first moral debate held by a colonizing force regarding the legitimacy of colonization. The impact of colonization is widespread and ever-present and, to this end, the Legacies of Valladolid --Legados de Valladolid—provides a forum to examine current political trends, national and international policies, and pervasive ideologies that affect our national and global climate.

We are inviting teams of debaters from universities across the United States to come and address these issues in a public forum of debate. The style is that of the Lafayette Debates. We have slots for 16 teams (2 debaters per team), and will be accepting teams on a first come-first serve basis.

Information: According to Merriam-Webster Dictionary, Nativism [Nativismo] is defined as policy of favoring native inhabitants as opposed to immigrants.

Topic: The rise of nativism is a danger to universal human rights.

Format:

1st Affirmative Construction (AC) 6 min | 1st Negative Construction (NC) 6

Cross-Examination (CX) 4 min CX 4 min

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2nd AC 6 min | 2nd NC 6 min

CX 4 min CX 4 min

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2 min prep

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Closing Aff Rebuttal 6 min

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2 min prep

| Closing Neg Rebuttal 6 min

We are optimistic we will be able to recruit social activists and scholars for the elimination rounds.

• To register, please email the names of your two-person student teams and the institution they will be representing to Dr. Marion Hart mhart03@calpoly.edu

• Please identify the name of any judge(s) that you can supply for either day of the tournament (please specify), as well as a paragraph biography. All judges must be fluent in Spanish, and have either debate experience or familiarity/background in the field.

• Please provide complete contact information for your institution’s representative including: name, contact number(s), and email address. Your email should have the subject line: “Legado de Valladolid Inscripción – [Name of your school]”