From imgershon at gmail.com Fri Jan 2 14:00:00 2026 From: imgershon at gmail.com (Ilana Gershon) Date: Fri, 2 Jan 2026 08:00:00 -0600 Subject: [Linganth] if you want a break from the US - Finland welcomes you Message-ID: *OPEN CALLS NORTH AMERICA COLLABORATION:* *North America Visiting Fellowship Programme 2026* The Fellowship Programme allows UH researchers to invite colleagues based at a Canadian or U.S. university or research institute for a 2-4 month research stay at the University of Helsinki. The UH host applicant is responsible for submitting the application. The fellowship recipient will receive a monthly grant. *North America Seed Funding 2026* We are now welcoming ambitious and outstanding proposals for collaboration between our researchers and their partners in Canada and the U.S. for the second round of the North America Seed Funding. Expected outcomes are increased and strengthened collaboration with North American counterparts, further advances in our fields of expertise, long-term academic collaboration, various joint activities such as e.g. workshops and seminars, educational collaboration, applications for international funding and joint publications in renowned journals. The call is open for collaboration covering all academic disciplines and the UH applicant must be a staff member on career level 3 or 4. The proposed projects must involve collaboration with at least one Canadian or U.S. university or research institute. The total budget for the call up to 50.000?, and the maximum sum granted to each project is 10.000?. *All calls are open and close on 30 January 2026. For call texts and budget templates see **here **.* -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From imgershon at gmail.com Mon Jan 5 14:09:24 2026 From: imgershon at gmail.com (Ilana Gershon) Date: Mon, 5 Jan 2026 08:09:24 -0600 Subject: [Linganth] Language and Law article competition -- deadline January 31st Message-ID: Call for Nominations: The Penny Pether Law & Language Scholarship Award 2025 A passionate advocate for interdisciplinary scholarship in law, literature, and language, Penelope J. Pether (1957-2013) was Professor of Law at Villanova University School of Law and former Professor of Law and Director of Legal Rhetoric at the American University Washington College of Law. Her own scholarship focused not only on law, literature, and language, but also on constitutional and comparative constitutional law; legal theory, including constitutional theory; common law legal institutions, judging practices, and professional subject formation. Beginning in November 2013, the Penny Pether Award for Law & Language Scholarship has been given to an article or essay published during the preceding award period that exemplifies Penny?s commitment to law and language scholarship and pedagogy. This year?s award period will be the calendar year 2025. We are delighted to report that the Legal Humanities Initiative at the University of California, Santa Barbara, will now be providing much needed administrative support for the award. The selection committee is grateful for LHI?s commitment to Penny?s legacy. The Committee selecting award recipients from among the articles and essays nominated will look for scholarship that not only embodies Penny?s passion and spirit but also has some or all of the following characteristics: 1. ?[S]cholarship concerning itself with the unique or distinctive insights that might emerge from interdisciplinary inquiries into ?law? grounded in the work of influential theorists of language and discourse.? 2. Scholarship that ?attempts to think through the relations among subject formation, language, and law.? 3. Scholarship that provides ?accounts of?and linguistic interventions in?acute and yet abiding crises in law, its institutions and discourses.? 4. Scholarship and pedagogy, including work addressing injustices in legal-academic institutions and practices, that is ?[c]arefully theorized and situated, insisting on engaging politics and law, [and that] charts ways for law and its subjects to use power, do justice.? More explanations and descriptions of these characteristics can be found in Penny?s chapter from which these quotations are drawn: Language, in Law and the Humanities: An Introduction (Austin Sarat et al. eds., Cambridge U. Press 2010). A list of past winners appears here: https://law.unlv.edu/lawyering-process/penny-pether *Nominations should be sent by January 31, 2026, to Jeannine DeLombard at jdelombard at ucsb.edu .* -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: