Lund Debate Society / Lunds Debattsällskap

About

The epicenter of intellectual life and discourse at Lund University, we debate all manner of issues both here in Lund and at international tournaments!

Story

The Lund Debate society (LDS) is a non-profit, non-partisan association operating in Lund, with the purpose of developing and providing a platform for intellectual public debate and critical thinking. We believe that in every democratic society, decisions should be based on the strongest arguments, and not the argument of the strongest.

Our mission is to work towards that goal which we do through weekly debate events where we practice debate. During those events, we teach and practice constructing persuasive arguments, critical analysis, and public speaking. We use a format known as 'British Parliamentary style' which is a competitive format for facilitating debate used at the World Universities Debating Championship.

Competitive debating should be regarded as an intellectual sport where participants have to form the strongest argument for a side that they have been assigned to defend. Since participants in a debate do not choose topic nor side, this form of debating inevitably stimulates the participants to whole-heartedly consider perspectives that he or she do not share.

The society regularly represents Lund at international competitions such as the Oxford Inter-varsity, the World Universities Debating Championship or the European Universities Debating Championship. Lund Debate Society has a strong international reputation thanks to our former European champion debaters and our annual international debate tournament: Lund inter-varsity that hosts more than 150 participants from over 10 countries every year.

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Do you like to talk?
Do you like like to travel?
Do you like being right?

Would you like to learn how to build a persuasive argument?
Would you like to improve your public speaking skills?
Would you like to meet new and interesting people from all over the world?

You are most welcome to come and try debating at one of our events, no membership required the first couple of weeks! You can find the membership sign-up page by clicking the button right under the banner.