Call for Papers
DiGRA 2024: Digital Games Research Association Conference
Theme: ‘Playgrounds’
Guadalajara, Mexico
July 1-5, 2024
https://digraconference2024.org/
Full papers, abstracts, and panels submission deadline: November 15, 2023
Workshop proposals submission deadline: January 30, 2024
DiGRA 2024 will take place in Guadalajara, Mexico, 1–5 July 2024. A pre-conference with a PhD Consortium and Workshops will be held on the first day of the conference, Monday 1st of July. We look forward to welcoming the game studies community to Mexico!
The theme of the conference is ‘Playgrounds.’
In this year’s edition of the DiGRA conference, we seek inspiration and theoretical support from the study and form of playgrounds. This adds a particular interest in child play and therefore invites experts who have experience in this area. Moreover, the playground metaphor can be used in framing design explorations and generally experimental approaches to game and play research, as well.
We want to encourage scholarly reflection on all the diverse ways games and play act as spaces of possibility between disparate realities. Suggested themes include but are not limited to:
- ontological approaches to games as playgrounds;
- playground aesthetics of digital play and games;
- games of the future: avantgarde and digital playgrounds;
- games as media/media as games;
- genres and generations: the limits of the experience;
- virtual and augmented reality experiences;
- games as playgrounds of new social realities;
- queerness in games, playgrounds of queerness;
- playing with sexuality;
- hegemony of play;
- playgrounds of game development;
- playgrounds for identity/identification;
- digital playground politics;
- games as texts: playing with literature;
- local/regional playground histories and game studies;
- flaneurism, contemplation, and archaeogaming;
- automation in and of playgrounds;
- evolution of playgrounds in digital games; and
- children and digital games as playgrounds.
To submit your proposal, please go to the DiGRA 2024 website and follow the instructions therein. The organisers also look forward to receiving panels and thematic workshop proposals. We welcome a range of contributions to DiGRA 2024: full papers, extended abstracts, panels, doctoral consortium participation, workshop proposals as well as experimental submissions.
For the full Call for Papers, submission details, and the new submission template please refer to our website.
IMPORTANT DATES:
- Submission opens: 1 October 2023.
- Full papers, abstracts, and panels submission deadline: 15 November 2023.
- Workshop proposals submission deadline: 30 January 2024.
- Announcement of review results and workshop acceptance: 1 February 2024.
- Deadline for early bird registration: 1 April 2024.
- Camera-ready papers & abstracts deadline: 1 May 2024.
- Conference dates: 1–5 July 2024.
The DiGRA 2024 conference website: https://digraconference2024.org/