Legados de Valladolid
Fri, Mar 09
|Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo
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.
Time & Location
Mar 09, 2018, 3:30 PM – Mar 11, 2018, 11:00 PM
Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo, 1 Grand Ave, San Luis Obispo, CA 93405, USA
About the event
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 …