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Call for Papers – Digital Subjectivities International Conference – Freie University Berlin 21/22 May 2026
Digital Subjectivities: Culture, Experience, and Knowledge Production will take place at Freie Universität Berlin from 21st-22nd May 2026. We are looking for contributions from early-career researchers from a range of disciplines, including philosophy, sociology, digital humanities, history, literature, cultural studies, media studies, sound studies, and game studies. Submissions might address, but are not limited to,…
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Comics & Machines Conference 2026
Comics & Machines Conference 2026 A two-day international conference rethinking comics as computational media and as engineered configurations entwined with automation, standardization, and information processing, and positioning comics-as-research as a […]
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DiGRA 2026 CfP is now live
Full paper and abstract submissions open: 1 October 2025 Full paper and abstracts deadline: 1 December 2025 Early career and researchers in precarious positions showcase deadline: 15 January 2026 Announcement of peer review results: 15 February 2026 Workshop proposals deadline: 15 February 2026 Workshop acceptance notifications: 1 March 2026 Early bird registration opens: 1 February…
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Call for Book Chapters: Games and Nostalgia for the Future
Instead of seeing nostalgia as a past-based, passive, and individualized emotion, can nostalgia galvanize us to be generative, active, and collaborative in our pursuits of the past? This edited book invites games studies researchers, designers, developers, artists, and enthusiasts to reflect on how games help us think about “Nostalgia for the Future”.
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GachaCon 2026
We’ll be hosting GachaCon, a hybrid academic conference on gacha games with Genshin Impact as the theme, on 12–13 February 2026 at the School of Creative Media, City University of Hong Kong. 🇭🇰🇨🇳 Game studies, sociology, culture studies, literary studies, philosophy, art & design, psychology, and law; come one, come all! 🤗
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CfP: ITRA Conference: The Zeitgeist in Toys & Games, Augsburg, Germany, 5. – 7. August 2026
10th ITRA World Conference 5-7 August 2026 Augsburg, Germany Colorful cartoon character flying next to “The Zeitgeist in Toys & Games, 10th ITRA World Conference, Augsburg Germany, 5-7 August, 2026” text on a white background. CALL FOR PROPOSALS Submission Deadline: December 31, 2025 via: oxfordabstracts.com Conference Theme: Throughout recorded history, toys and games have shaped…
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Dutch DiGRA Symposium 2025: Futures for Game Research
This symposium especially encourages contributions from early career researchers (advanced master students, PhD fellows, post-docs, and independent scholars). We welcome your submissions even if game studies is not your primary field of research. The symposium offers a platform not just for sharing knowledge, but also for sharing pedagogical experience, artistic research, with plenty of time…
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CfP: CEEGS 2025
CEEGS 2025 in Wrocław Central and Eastern European Game Studies (CEEGS) conference is a gathering of game scholars organised annually by DiGRA Central and Eastern Europe, but its thematic scope is not limited to regional topics, and it welcomes participants from anywhere in the world. This year’s conference will take place in Wrocław in Poland,…
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CfP: History of Games 2025
This year’s history of games, organized by Jagiellonian University and SWPS University in Kraków, aims to bring you back the memory lane to the 1990-ties, the decade that made contemporary game culture.
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CfP: Rituals of Play – Shaping Alternative Futures with Games and Occulture
Rituals of Play is the theme for Multiplatform 2025, the annual Manchester Game Studies symposium dedicated to analogue and video game studies. This year’s event is a collaboration with DVRK – the Dark Arts Research Kollective – at Manchester Metropolitan University.
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Nordic DiGRA 2025
The CfP for the next Nordic DiGRA conference ‘Hope: Envisioning the Future of Game Cultures’ is out! The conference will be organised on 26–28 May 2025 in Turku, Finland. The […]
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Call for papers: DiGRA 2023 International Conference
CALL FOR PAPERS DIGRA 2023 DiGRA 2023 will take place in Sevilla, Spain, 19th-23rd June 2023. A pre-conference will be held one day prior to the official beginning of the conference, on […]
