European citizenship and rhetorical argumentation: the case of climate change

Academics

• Emmanuelle Danblon is Professor at the Université libre de Bruxelles, member of the Académie Royale de Belgique (Classe des Lettres). She teaches rhetoric and argumentation. Her research interests focus on the links between discourses, institutions and rationality. She directs the GRAL (Groupe de recherche en Rhétorique et Argumentation Linguistique) in an interdisciplinary perspective (http://gral.ulb.ac.be). She is Secretary of the Perelman Foundation in Brussels.
• Sabine Luciani, Professor of Latin Language and Literature at Aix-Marseille Université (CPAF-TDMAM – CNRS), studies the history of ideas and the modalities of transfer, reception and acculturation of Greek philosophy in Rome. She has worked in particular on the notions of time and eternity in the Roman philosophical literature. Since 2018, the CPAF-TDMAM team has been taking part in the annual training of the Doctoral School 355 (dir. Pr. Luciani) “Eloquence according to the Ancients”, which seeks to improve the oral skills of doctoral students, using the tools of ancient rhetoric (https://cpaf.cnrs.fr).
• Camil-Alexandru Pârvu is an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Political Science, University of Bucharest, and an associate researcher at the College d’Etudes Mondiales, FMSH, Paris. His research focuses on rhetoric and political representation, as well as on cosmopolitanism and populism. His last publications are: Camil-Alexandru Pârvu, Populism, Rhetoric and Political Representation. The New Democratic Challenges, Bucharest: Bucharest University Press, 2016; Camil-Alexandru Parvu, Tamara Caraus, “Cosmopolitanism and Migrant Protests”, in Gerard Delanty, Routledge Handbook of Cosmopolitan Studies - Second Edition, Routledge, 2018; Tamara Caraus, Camil-Alexandru Pârvu, “Cosmopolitanism and Global Protests”, Globalizations, vol. 14, 2017. 

Experts

• Jean Sevestre-Giraud, now French senior civil servant, head of the unit on national climate mitigation policies at the French Ministry of Ecological Transition, was a seconded national expert at the European Commission (2018-2021) in the energy sector. In 2015, under the French COP 21 presidency, he was in charge of negotiations on climate finance.
• Vincent Moron is an Associate Professor at the Centre Européen de Recherche et d’Enseignement des Géosciences de l’Environnement (CEREGE at Aix-Marseille Université). Specialized in Physical geography and Climatology, his expertise covers the diagnostic analysis of the contemporaneous variability of climate.
• Edwin Zaccai is Professor at Université libre de Bruxelles,  founder of the Centre d'Etudes du Développement Durable (CEDD) and member of the Institut de Gestion de l'Environnement et d'Aménagement du Territoire (IGEAT) eand the Department of Geosciences, Environment and Society (DGES).

Organizing team

• Lucie Donckier de Donceel is a first year doctoral student in cotutelle with the Università Degli Studi di Palermo and the Université libre de Bruxelles. Her research focuses on conspiracy theories and the notion of rationality, which she studies through the prism of rhetoric. She is also teaching-assistant at the Université libre de Bruxelles and member of the GRAL.
• Claudia Craciun-Chivereanu is a second-year doctoral student at the Faculty of Political Sciences at the University of Bucharest, where she also obtained a bachelor's and master's degree, the last one in collaboration with École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris. Her areas of interest and research are constitutionalism and the genesis of modern Romanian politics, the political parties and ideologies. Currently, she is part of the editorial board of Studia Politica - Romanian Political Science Review.
• Benjamin Sevestre-Giraud is a second year doctoral student in Rhetoric and Latin at Aix-Marseille Université (CPAF-TDMAM) and Université libre de Bruxelles (GRAL). Graduated in Classics (Sorbonne Université) and Philosophy (Université de Lille), he is working on the history of the teaching of Rhetoric, more specifically on the Quintilian’s Institutio oratoria and how rhetorical practices and tradition could be used in secondary and higher education today.