Founded in 2003, the Digital Games Research Association (DiGRA) is an international organisation dedicated to the study of games and play. The 2026 DiGRA conference theme is Intersectional Pleasures. The theme invites a critical and celebratory exploration of how games (digital, analogue, and hybrid) enable, mediate, or restrict pleasure across lines of identity, genre, platforms, […]

IAMCR, the International Association for Media and Communications Research, is hosting its annual conference in Galway this 28 June – 2 July. The 2026 central theme, Peripheries and Connections: Media, Communication, and Transformation, addresses the complexities of contemporary media systems in a polarised and interconnected world. By emphasising intersections between the global and the local, […]