Game-related CFPs (updated 05/28)

What follows is a listing of the calls-for-papers (CFPs) and other requests for publication and paper presentation that have some focus on video games.

Sure enough, junior academics such as myself will spend much time writing just to get their ideas out there. This is a continuously updated overview of opportunities for the coming year, and beyond, organized by deadline.

For a listing of 2008 conferences on virtual worlds, go here.
If you’re a game designer, then you’ll also be interested in this.
The DiGRA people have a list here.

[Q: "Hey, WTF, some of these dates are already teh expired...lolz!!"]
[A: "Yes, I know. Sometimes they're extended."]

5th Annual Games for Change Festival
June 2 – 4, 2008, New York City
Deadline: February 11. URL: gamesforchange.org

The Philosophy of Computer Games Conference
May 8 – 10, 2008, Potsdam
Deadline: February 15. URL: gamephilosophy.org/

Digital Interactive Media in Entertainment and Arts (DIMEA 2008)
September 10 – 12, 2008, Greece
Deadline: May 12 20. URL: dimea2008.org

European Communication Research and Education Association
November 25 – 28, 2008, Barcelona
Deadline: February 15. URL: ecrea2008barcelona.org

Playing to Win: Student Panel
April 4, 2008, PennState
Deadline: none, but hurry. URL: outreach.psu.edu/programs/videogames/index.html
email them directly: mdt180@psu.edu

Play
May 23 – 24, 2008, Edinburgh
Deadline: February 29th. URL: forum.llc.ed.ac.uk/play

Games We Play: Strategies of the Everyday
May 9 – 10, 2008, Vancouver
Deadline: February 29. URL: sfu.ca/~gradconf/cfp.html

Love and Pop: Visual Cultures in Japan and Beyond
April 12, 2008, Brooklyn Museum, New York City
Deadline: February 29. No URL, email: eleanor.whitney@brooklynmuseum.org

World of Work
July 31, 2008, Boston
Deadline: March 1. URL: citasa.org/pre-conference

Beyond the Online: Critical Collaborations and Dialogues among Anthropological Approaches to Video Games
Nov 19-2, 2008, San Francisco
Deadline: March 21. Send to: roballen@u.washington.edu / URL: aaanet.org/meetings/

Sandbox Symposium 08
Aug 9, 2008, Los Angeles
Deadline: March 24 April 25. URL: sandbox.siggraph.org

Future and Reality of Gaming
October 17 – 19, 2008, Vienna
Deadline: March 28. URL: www.bupp.at/frog

The [Player] Conference
August 26 – 29, 2008, Copenhagen
Deadline: March 31. URL: game.itu.dk/player

PhD Scholarship @ IT University of Copenhagen
Deadline: April 17. URL: www1.itu.dk/sw487.asp

Artificial Intelligence and Interactive Digital Entertainment (AIIDE)
October 22 – 24, 2008, Stanford University, CA
Deadline: April 21. URL: aiide.org

Fun and Games
October 20 – 21, 2008, Eindhoven
Deadline: April 28. URL: fng2008.org

Mobile Gaming ’08
September 9, 2008, Bonn
Deadline: April 28. URL: mobile-gaming08-cfp [PDF-alert]

Mobile Mixed Reality Games (special session at DIMEA 2008
September 10 – 12, 2008, Athens.
Deadline: April 30. URL: dimea2008.org

Journal of Gaming and Virtual Worlds
October issue, 2008.
Deadline: May 1. No URL, email: a.ensslin@bangor.ac.uk or e.muse@bangor.ac.uk

NetGames 2008
October 21-22, 2008, Worcester
Deadline: May 11. URL: netgames2008.cs.wpi.edu/callpapers.html

Perspectives on the History of Computer Games
July 2009 issue.
Deadline: May 15. E-mail: lowood@stanford.edu

Toys and Games
October 3 – 5, 2008, Cincinatti
Deadline: May 21. URL: mpcaaca.org

Audio Mostly
October 22 – 25, 2008, Piteå, Sweden
Deadline: May 25. URL: audiomostly.com

Gaming 2008 – Design for engaging experience and social interaction (IADIS)
July 25 – 27, 2008, Amsterdam
Deadline: February 25 May 30. URL: gaming-conf.org

Continuities and Innovations: Popular Print Cultures
August 26 – 31, 2008, Edmonton
Deadline: May 30. URL: arts.ualberta.ca/popprin

Women in Games Conference
September 10 – 12, 2008, Warwick.
Deadline: May 31. E-mail: nicola@womeningames.com

DIGITEL 2008
November 17 – 19, 2008, Banff, Canada
Deadline: May 30. URL: ask4research.info/digitel/2008/others

Games Research and Development, CyberGames
Oct 27 – 30, 2000, Beijing.
Deadline: May 31st. URL: coetechweek.com/cybergames

MindTrek 2008
October 7 – 9, 2008, Tampere, Finland
Deadline: May 31st. URL: mindtrek.org

Video Games Live
April 26, 2008, New York City
Actually it’s no CFP but an awesome concert.
[edit]Okay. Maybe I was premature.[/edit]

International Journal of Gaming and Computer-Mediated Simulations
Volume #2, 2009.
Deadline: June 15. URL: igi-global.com/ijgcms

2nd Brunel University Annual Postgraduate Games Conference
September 16, 2008, Uxbridge
Deadline: June 15. URL: geekacademic.co.uk

Games Convention Asia Conference
September 18 – 19, 2008, Singapore
Deadline: June 15th. URL: www.gc-asia.sg

Interactive Storytelling ’08
November 26 – 29, 2008, Erfurt, Germany
Deadline: June 15. URL: ai.fh-erfurt.de/icids08

Human Media Interaction (ECAG08)
September 16, 2008, Amsterdam (w00t)
Deadline: June 15. URL: hmi.ewi.utwente.nl/conference/ECAG08

IE2008 – The Fifth Australasian Conference on Interactive Entertainment
December 3 – 5, 2008, Brisbane.
Deadline: June 20. URL: ieconference.org/submission

ACM Future Play 2008
November 3 – 5, Toronto.
Deadline: June 30. URL: futurePlay2008_cfp.pdf [PDF-alert]

Meaningful Play 2008
October 9 – 11, 2008, East Lansing
Deadline: July 1. URL: meaningfulplay.msu.edu

Apply Serious Games
July 9 – 10, 2008, London
Deadline: dunno, doesn’t say. URL: applyseriousgames.com/pages/papers.htm

Special Issue of IEEE CG&A
January/February 2009
Deadline: July 30. URL: computer.org/portal/site/cga/index.jsp