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DiGRA 2026 Solidarity Fund Open
We are pleased to announce the return of the DiGRA Solidarity fund. The purpose of the fund is to provide means for students and early-career researchers who lack institutional support for international travel to attend DiGRA International events and present their work. Applicants living in Low-Income or Lower-middle-income countries (according to World Bank Classification) will…
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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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Register now! An online panel on the deplatforming of sexual expression in games- October 2, 2025
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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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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!
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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…
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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.
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Welcome to Malta!
This brief news article contains helpful information for DiGRA Malta attendees.
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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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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.
