Venue: Dharmasala

Concept Note of Seminar

Games have long used medievalist or medieval-adjacent settings to engage with audiences. Scholars have noted the various connections to be made between popular perceptions of the medieval in games and historical and textual realities of the medieval world. While games may not always make it a priority to accurately portray medieval (or pseudo-medieval) life, there are still important parallels and intertextual references that games use to harken back to the medieval world—whatever version of that that reality they choose to use as a basis, at least. Just like games construct a faux reality for their players, so too have the popular conceptions of the medieval world been carefully constructed through literature and popular culture.

The concept of orphanhood may reveal a liminal yet productive state between figures, identities, homes, cultures and languages, exposing fertile spaces for crafting (re)generative views of self and other through literary texts. As characters, orphans may become queered figures, pointing back to the vulnerable state of childhood itself; as protagonists, orphans have also been connected to the concept of the hero (Rose-Emily Rothenberg), the role of the laborer, and the emotional “regeneration” of adults (Claudia Nelson).

Call For Submission: Interdisciplinary Research on Globalisation, Climate and Sustainability

Publisher: Deshbandhu College, University Of Delhi

Deadline For submission: 15th July 2025 (11.59 PM IST)

Deshbandhu Journal Of Social Sciences

ISSN: 2583-7974 (Online)

Deshbandhu Journal Of Social Sciences

Theme: Globalisation, Climate and Sustainability: Changing Perspectives and Hypotheses 

“December 2025 Issue”

Call for Papers

Equinox: Volume I: Fables & Firelight
Published by La Société Étoilée 

Submission Deadline: August 31, 2025

In its inaugural issue, Equinox invites submissions on the theme of fables and firelight—that is, the stories we gather around, the myths that shape us, and the flickering interplay between tradition, memory, and imagination. We welcome work that explores folklore, mythology, ancestral knowledge, symbolic systems, oral traditions, and the cultural rituals of storytelling across time. But we also invite broader interpretations: How do stories act as shelter? When do they burn or illuminate? What truths lie within the fantastic?

This roundtable seeks to understand the ways in which early modern people conceived of the body as being willful. Early modern poets, playwrights, and prose writers represent the body as having (or almost as if having) a will of its own. For instance, in Christopher Marlowe’s Doctor Faustus, the titular protagonist desires to sign a devilish contract with his blood, but his blood congeals, preventing that damning deed. Margaret Cavendish imagines in Poems and Fancies cognitive processes as being directed by vital matter she metaphorizes as faeries, whose markets, funerals, and marriages dictate the functioning of the brain.

This is an open-CFP for one or more panel session(s) on Aemilia Lanyer. Lanyer has received a resurgence of attention in the last ten years from literary critics as well as popular dramatists and novelists. This panel aims to continue the scholarly conversation by seeking papers that examine new courses of inquiry or reevaluate established topics of Lanyer scholarship. Paper topics might include but are not limited to:

As of July 1, 2025, we are still seeking additional chapters for The Handbook of Indian Trans Cinema: Film, Television, and Web Series to complement the 50+ confirmed chapters. Proposals are due July 1, 2025.

While most chapters examine Indian cinema with clearly transgender characters, we also welcome chapters for the handbook’s first theme, “Transing Cinema with No Transgender Characters,” showing how trans theories provoke new interpretations of film and television that don’t explicitly address transgender topics. For example, Dr. Amitabh Vikram Dwivedi’s chapter “Transing the Lens in Hindi Cinema” studies the following films:

The Fourth “Connections and Human Aspects of Urban Space” International Conference

The FES Acatlán through its Research Program, its  Department of Humanities, the Humanities Program and the Hispanic Language and Literature Section, have the honor of convening the 4th International Conference "Connections and Human Aspects of Urban Space" which will be held from November the 17th to the 19th in a hybrid format via Zoom and at the FES Acatlán campus facilities.

CALL FOR PAPERS

Is a Better World Possible? - Solidarity as a Conversation across Temporalities A one-day hybrid interdisciplinary conference at the University of WarwickSaturday 29th November 2025Confirmed Keynote speaker: Dr Anna Bernard, King’s College London

This special issue of Horror Studies aims to address female empowerment (cis- and transgender women) in literary and cinematic horror from 2010 to the present. The issue will showcase horror media (literature, films, television, and gaming) created by women. An intersectional approach should be applied to analyses, stressing categories of race, gender, sexuality, class and/or age in submissions. While we are interested in submissions focused on various forms of horror media, we are eager to receive submissions that foreground literary texts.

First Anglistics International
Conference on Continuing Education
in Philological and Related Studies in
the English Language (ONLINE)
September 25-26, 2025
Deadline for proposals: September 15, 2025
The First International Conference on Continuing Education in Philological
and Related Studies in the English Language invites academics, researchers,
educators, and postgraduate students to come together to explore English
philology in all its dimensions. This event will be held entirely online and aims
to foster dialogue and intellectual exchange on the dynamic linguistic,
literary, and cultural landscapes of the English language. The conference,

 International Journal of Humanities, Art and Social Studies (IJHAS)

ISSN : 1832-624N 2974-5962 (Print)

https://flyccs.com/jounals/IJHASS/Home.html

*** June Issue*** 

Submission System 

Scope

Global K-Culture Conference

August 28 (Thu) ~ August 29 (Fri), 2025 (2 days)

Chungbuk National University, Korea

https://kculture.chungbuk.ac.kr/

Keynote Speakers

Hyung-jin Lee (Sookmyung Women’s University)

Topic: “K-culture and Translation“ (TBA)

Ji Hyeon Kim (Hanyang University)

Topic: “K-culture and Media Platform” (TBA)