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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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DiGRA Rising Star Program for ECR/PP & PhD Students
Following the success of the ECR/PP keynote at this year’s DiGRA conference, we are delighted to launch a new award: the DiGRA Rising Star Spotlight. This program aims to celebrate and showcase the work of emerging scholars in our community, giving greater visibility to their research and contributions to the community.
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Call for DiGRA 2027 Conference Hosts
Every year, the Digital Games Research Association (DiGRA) gathers scholars, designers, and practitioners from across the world to share research, ideas, and play. Since 2003, these conferences have been made possible by local organising committees who volunteer their time and energy to host the community. We’re now looking for hosts for DiGRA 2027 and 2028,…
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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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Register now! An online panel on the deplatforming of sexual expression in games- October 2, 2025
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Funded PhD Positions in Critical Game Design at RPI
Call for Applications for multiple funded PhD positions in Critical Game Design at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.
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DiGRA 2026 Conference Announcement
The DiGRA Executive Board is pleased to announce that DiGRA 2026 will be hosted at Maynooth University in Maynooth, Ireland from 14 to 18 June 2026.
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Executive Board Fireside Chat, Q3
Members from the DiGRA board will be hosting an hour long ‘fireside chat’ via Zoom on Thursday, September 25th at 10 MST/ 12 EST/ 17 BST / Friday, March 14th at 1 JST/ 2 AEST. The fireside chat will feature a 20 minute review of what the board has accomplished since the AGM, and our…
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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…