This book will explore how religion and the sacred emerge from within the structure and narrative of The Legend of Zelda series, one of the most influential and enduring franchises in video game history. Zelda has greatly impacted multiple generations of players, and has an extremely loyal and dedicated fanbse.

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:

Digital Projections and Screened Identities in US American Culture Virtual Conference | September 4–5, 2025 

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:

Environment and Society, a book series published by Bloomsbury Academic, is seeking proposals covering a broad range of topics in environmental studies from the perspectives of the social sciences and humanities. More than 40 books have already appeared in the series.

Critical Plant Studies, a book series published by Bloomsbury Academic, is seeking proposals for books that re-examine in fundamental ways our understanding of and engagement with plants, drawing on diverse disciplinary perspectives. 

Conference online (via Zoom): 3-4 July 2025

CFP: 

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Call for Papers: Symposium on "Teaching Innovation in Higher Education in U.S. Literature, History, and Culture" at the CIDICO Conference

In this new edition, which will take place online on November 17, 18, and 19, and in person on November 20 and 21, organized by the SEJ-473 Research Group of the University of Almería and the Research and Training in Psychology, Education, and Health Group, we aim to continue promoting a multidisciplinary meeting of educators. This space seeks to highlight all University Areas of Knowledge and provide an opportunity to share work related to Teaching Innovation, methodologies, and research projects.

We invite contributors for a proposed Exemplaria special issue on Medieval Asexualities.