Big Ol’ List of 2008 Virtual World Conferences

What follows is a list of 2008 conferences that have something to do with virtual worlds. Think of all the frequent flyer miles…
[last update 05/13/08]

January
Jan 26 – 27: Virtual Worlds and Space – NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field CA USA
Jan 28: Virtual Liberties: Do Avatars Dream of Civil Rights? – USC Annenberg Island, SL [Monday Jan 28th, 2:30pm)

February
Feb 4 – 6: When Media Environments Become Real – University of Bern, Switzerland
Feb 11: Virtual worlds and social science – Emory University, USA
Feb 14-15: Computer Games, Law, Regulation and Policy Symposium – QUT Creative Industries Precinct, Brisbane, Australia
Feb 16 – 17: Metaverse U – Stanford, CA USA
Feb 18 – 22: GDC – San Francisco, CA USA
Feb 28 – 29: Nordic Serious Games Conference (NSG) – Jyväskylä, Finland
Feb 28-March 3: Game Development in Computer Science Education – On board the Celebrity Century cruise ship departing from Miami, FL USA

March
March 7 – 11: SxSWi – Austin, TX, USA
March 27 – 28: Gamer Technology Law – Peninsula Beverly Hills Hotel, Beverly Hills, CA USA

April
April 3 – 4: Virtual Worlds Conference – New York City, NY USA
April 10 – 11: Breaking the Magic Circle – Tampere, Finland
April 10 14:30-16:30: Why Commercial Lawyers Should Care About Virtual Worlds and Online Games [.pdf] – Dallas, TX USA
April 19-20: Homo Ludens: Locating Play in Contemporary Culture and
Society – Laboral Centro de Arte y Creacion Industrial in Gijon, Spain
April 25 – 26: Cultures of Virtual Worlds – University of California, Irvine, CA USA
April 28-30: Living Game Worlds IV – Georgia Tech, Atlanta, GA USA

May
May 8 – 10: The Philosophy of Computer Games – Potsdam, Germany
May 13: Best of Metanomics! Real World Press – Muse Isle in SL (teleport)
May 17 – 18: Productive Play – UC Irvine

June
June 5–6: MMOG Fest 08 – Stafford, UK
June 24 – 27: Cultural Attitudes towards Technology and Communication (CATaC’08) – Nîmes, France

August
August 26 – 29: The [Player] Conference – ITUC Copenhagen, Denmark
August TBA: Edinburgh Interactive – Edinburgh, UK

September
Sept 4 – 5: Virtual Worlds Conference and Expo – Los Angeles, CA USA
Sept 5 – 7: SLCC – Tampa, FL USA

October
Oct 15 – 18: IR8.0 [AoIR] – Copenhagen, Denmark
Oct 17 – 19: Future and Reality of Gaming (F.R.O.G.) – Vienna Games Conference

[Compiled from BiggerNova mailing list. Thanks Ren Reynolds, Brian Green, Julian Dibbell, Nic Suzor, Vincent Scheurer, and Bruce Damer!]