Call for Abstracts for The Zicklin Center Normative Business Ethics Workshop Series
\nOver the 2026-2027 academic year\, the Zicklin Center for Governance and Business Ethics at the Wharton School\, University of Pennsylvania\, will convene a regular works-in-progress series for scholars working in normative business ethics (NBE). In particular\, the Series will workshop papers pursuing business ethics issues from a normative perspective\, or papers in moral or political philosophy with implications for the market\, distributive justice\, labor relations\, the role of business in society\, etc.
\nWorkshop Objectives
\nThe Series is part of an effort to foster normative business ethics in the academy and the public sphere. This particular initiative has two key objectives: First\, it endeavors to provide a regular forum for scholars working on business ethics from a normative perspective. The community of such scholars is relatively small\, and dispersed across numerous institutions\, and there are few opportunities for these individuals to convene and share work. This Series is an effort to connect these scholars and to enrich their shared intellectual life. Second\, the Series aims to be especially valuable to junior faculty and advanced graduate students\, by providing them with feedback from\, and opportunities to interact with\, more established members of the normative business ethics community. To that end\, we hope to have (at least) one junior author and one senior author at each session.
\nWorkshop Format
\nThe workshop will meet six times over the academic year. Any academic or practitioner with an interest in normative business ethics is invited to attend the sessions. Attendees are expected to read the papers in advance\, and to come with feedback for the paper authors. To maximize the opportunity for paper improvement\, authors will not present their papers\; we will instead spend our time together on questions and comments for the author.
\nSessions will be held on Fridays\, beginning at 1:00 pm unless otherwise indicated. We will discuss two to three papers at each session. Attendees are expected to read the papers in advance\, and to come prepared to offer feedback.
\nWe plan to hold all sessions in-person\, on the campus of the University of Pennsylvania\, in Philadelphia.
\nSession Dates:
\nSeptember 25th\, 2026
\nOctober 30th\, 2026
\nJanuary 29th\, 2027
\nFebruary 26th\, 2027
\nMarch 19th\, 2027
\nApril 16th\, 2027
\nCall for Abstracts
\nWe invite abstract submissions from \;faculty and post-docs\, and from graduate students who have advanced to the ABD stage. \;Preferential treatment will be given to those who have not presented work at the Series before\, and we especially welcome submissions from women and under-represented minorities.
\nThe abstract should propose a paper in normative business ethics\, as described above. We ask that submissions offer a fairly detailed sense of the paper without exceeding 500 words.
\nWe ask that applicants identify three of the above dates\, in order of preference\, at which they would like to present their work. Please send your abstract to Brian Berkey &ndash\; bberkey@wharton.upenn.edu -- by July 15th\, 2026. Individuals will be notified about whether their paper has been selected for presentation by August 3rd\, 2026.
\nInformation for Selected Authors
\nThe Zicklin Center will cover reasonable travel and accommodation expenses for paper authors for the session at which their paper will be discussed.
\nReimbursement for travel expenses is subject to two conditions. By accepting the offer to workshop a paper\, the paper author pledges that:
\n1. \; \; \; \; The paper they will share is at a stage of development where the author can incorporate feedback gained at the workshop (e.g.\, the paper is not yet in page proofs or in print)\; and
\n2. \; \; \; \; The paper author will send their draft paper to the organizers no fewer than 14 days before their presentation date.
\nFor co-authored papers\, we can ordinarily only provide travel funding for one of the authors\, though other co-authors are welcome to attend.
\nPlease address any questions about the CFA or the workshop to one of the organizers: Brian Berkey (bberkey@wharton.upenn.edu)\, Amy Sepinwall (sepin@wharton.upenn.edu)\, Julian Jonker (jonker@wharton.upenn.edu)\, or Paul Forrester (pforr@wharton.upenn.edu).
ORGANIZER;CN=Brian Berkey;CN=Amy J. Sepinwall;CN=Julian Jonker;CN=Paul Forrester: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261115T002339Z DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20270609T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20270611T170000 SUMMARY:SALT 37 UID:20261115T035733Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-58d8844b6d-m5ps5 TZID:America/New_York LOCATION:Philadelphia\, United States DESCRIPTION:We're excited to announce that SALT 37 will be held at the University of Pennsylvania on June 9-11\, 2027. Invited Speakers: Danny Fox (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) Matthew Mandelkern (New York University) Lisa Matthewson (University of British Columbia) Lyn Tieu (University of Toronto) The deadline for abstract submissions is December 15. Check the SALT 37 website for a link to the abstract submission portal\, which will be posted by November 15. SALT 37 organizers: Paloma Jeretič\, Anna Papafragou\, Florian Schwarz
The CfP is now posted at https://saltconf.github.io/salt37/call-for-abstracts/\, and we&rsquo\;re accepting submissions on OpenReview: https://openreview.net/group?id=saltconf.github.io/SALT/2027 Call Deadline: 15-Dec-2026
Call for Abstracts details: The organizers of the 37th annual meeting of Semantics and Linguistic Theory (SALT37) invite submission of abstracts for 30-minute oral presentations (with an additional 10 minutes for questions) or posters on any topic in natural language semantics with relevance to linguistic theory. Submission details Deadline: Tuesday\, December 15\, 11:59 pm (UTC-5) Submissions should be made via the SALT37 OpenReview site. We expect to notify authors of their acceptance in mid-February. Requirements Abstracts must be anonymous. The main text should be at most 2 pages (US Letter or A4) in length\, with an optional third page for references\, figures\, or non-English examples. All English examples must be interleaved within the main text of the abstract. No prose may extend onto the third page and captions for figures on the third page must not exceed 100 characters in length. English context descriptions for non-English examples may be placed on the third page alongside the example they are associated with\, but they must obey the constraint for figure captions on the third page&ndash\;i.e. they must not exceed 100 characters in length. If longer English context descriptions are necessary&ndash\;even for non-English examples that themselves are placed on the third page&ndash\;they must be interleaved within the main text of the abstract. The abstract should use a font no smaller than 12pt for all text (including mathematical formulae\, examples\, figure captions\, and footnotes)\, and its margins should be no smaller than 1 inch (for US Letter) or 3 cm margins (for A4) on all four sides. The line spacing must be no smaller than single space. The abstract must be submitted as a single PDF file. These limitations will be strictly enforced. In addition to the intellectual interest of the abstract\, clarity and readability will also be taken into account in reviewing. Policies Authors may be involved in an unlimited number of abstracts\, but they may be involved in at most one as first author and at most two as last author. For a single author abstract\, the sole author counts as both the first and the last author for the purposes of this constraint\; and for a two author abstract\, the second author counts as the last author for the purposes of this constraint. SALT does not accept papers that at the time of the conference have been published or have been accepted for publication. In addition\, preference will be given to presentations that are not duplicated at other major conferences. We therefore request that authors indicate prior\, pending\, or planned presentations of their papers along with their contact information when they submit their abstracts. Proceedings All papers presented at the conference (including posters) will be published in a SALT37 volume following the conclusion of the conference.