Category: Conferences and Seminars

  • 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…

  • Solidarity Spotlight

    Solidarity Spotlight

    This year we are honored to present Piuli Basu, a PhD student at the Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta, as the recipient of the DiGRA Solidarity Fund. Please read more about this outstanding scholar!

  • Malta 2025 Highlight: Early Career and Precarious Positions Showcase

    Malta 2025 Highlight: Early Career and Precarious Positions Showcase

    We are delighted that the first ever Early Career and Precarious Positions Showcase was a huge success at DiGRA Malta 2025. Chaitanya Solanki (Mahindra University, India); Andrei Zanescu (Concordia University, Canada); Leon Xiao (City University of Hong Kong); Koike Mayu (Institute of Science Tokyo, Japan); Kübra Aksay (University of Freiburg, Germany); Camila Freitas (Federal University…

  • Sustainability and Games Summer School

    Call for Applications: Summer School of Ecogames and Sustainability in the Video Game Industry at the University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland. The STRATEGIES Horizon Europe Project is organizing the Summer School of Ecogames and Sustainability in the Video Game Industry, a 3-day-long program dedicated to critical exploration and academic development around ecologically conscious gaming.

  • Welcome to Malta!

    Welcome to Malta!

    This brief news article contains helpful information for DiGRA Malta attendees.

  • Dutch DiGRA Symposium 2025: Futures for Game Research

    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…

  • Critical Game Design Graduate Conference 2025

    The Critical Game Design Graduate Program is hosting their second annual conference and has issued a Call-for-Papers authored by graduate students. The theme for this year’s conference is: organizations.

  • Nordic DiGRA 2025

    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 Nordic DiGRA 2025 conference is organised by the Finnish Society for Game Research in collaboration with the Centre of Excellence in Game Culture Studies. Please…

  • DiGRA 2025 Call for Papers

    DiGRA 2025 Call for Papers

    DiGRA 2025 conference Call for Papers is out! All important information related to the conference can be found on the conference website at https://digraconference2025.org/calls-call-for-papers.

  • DiGRA 2024 report

    DiGRA 2024 report

    DiGRA 2024 was held in Guadalajara, Mexico, from 1st to 5th of July, 2024. The conference had 253 participants from 39 countries. 205 papers were presented at the conference during four busy days. On the very first day of the conference, 16 workshops were organized, as well as the Doctoral Consortium featuring 14 early career…

  • DiGRA 2023 proceedings are now out

    DiGRA 2023 proceedings are now out

    Proceedings are now published on a temporary address, http://dl.digra.org. The temporary proceedings contain links to non-existing papers when the authors of the paper did not submit a camera-ready version of the paper. The proceedings will move to the digital library when we roll out a new version of the digital library software.

  • DiGRA Solidarity Fund

    We are happy to announce the second edition of the DiGRA Solidarity Fund! The fund is meant for providing scholars from less privileged countries with means to travel to the DiGRA international conference which will be held in Sevilla 19-23 June 2023.  Last year we provided travel funding for 5 scholars to attend the conference in Krakow.…