Call for Papers – DiGRA Brasil 2026
3rd Conference of the Digital Games Research Association Brazil
Submissions open until September 18 11, 2026
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Conference Theme
Playing Childhood: Boundaries and Digital Experiences
Game Studies is an interdisciplinary field concerned with the social, cultural, political and economic dimensions of digital games. As digital games have become an increasingly significant part of children’s and adolescents’ everyday lives, the field has also engaged with questions surrounding digital environments shaped by continuous engagement, platform economies, datafication and new forms of social interaction.
Digital games are widely recognised as spaces for play, learning, creativity and sociability. At the same time, they raise important questions regarding boundaries, mediation, digital well-being and the protection of children and young people in increasingly complex online environments.
These challenges invite critical and interdisciplinary perspectives that consider how childhood intersects with issues such as gender, race, class, accessibility and neurodiversity, while also acknowledging the social, cultural and institutional specificities of different national contexts.
The theme of DiGRA Brasil 2026, Playing Childhood: Boundaries and Digital Experiences, seeks to foster discussion around these contemporary issues. At the same time, the conference welcomes submissions on any topic related to Game Studies. The suggested topics presented below are intended to encourage discussion and should not be understood as limiting the scope of submissions.
The 3rd Conference of the Digital Games Research Association Brazil (DiGRA Brasil 2026) invites researchers, graduate students and professionals to submit extended abstracts presenting research on digital games and related fields.
Venue
The conference will take place in person only, on 18-19 November 2026, at the Universidade Federal Fluminense (UFF), in Niterói, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Suggested Topics
Suggested topics include, but are not limited to:
- Childhood, diversity and digital games
- Health, well-being and accessibility
- Inclusive and neurodiversity-aware game design
- Games and education
- Online interactions and gaming cultures
- Streaming and participatory cultures
- Games, labour and platform economies
- Politics, regulation and children’s rights
- Decolonial perspectives on games
- Game history, RPGs and board games
Submission Guidelines
- Submission format: Extended Abstract
- Length: 500-800 words (maximum 1,000 words, excluding references)
- Submission file: Anonymous PDF
- Languages: Portuguese, Spanish or English
- Presentation language: Portuguese, Spanish or English
- Conference format: In-person only
Accepted extended abstracts will be published in the Proceedings of DiGRA Brasil under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) licence.
File Anonymization
All submissions will undergo double-blind peer review. Authors must remove from the manuscript any information that could reveal their identity, including author names, institutional affiliations, acknowledgements, self-identifying references, and file metadata.
The uploaded file name must also be anonymized and should not contain author names or institutional information.
Authors must prepare their submission using the official DiGRA Brasil Submission Template (English/International version)
Download the Submission Template (.docx)
Submissions will be handled exclusively through the DiGRA Brasil online submission system.
Submit Your Work
We warmly welcome submissions from the international Game Studies community.
Important Dates
| Submission system opens | 10 August 2026 |
| Submission deadline | |
| Notification of acceptance | 2 October 2026 |
| Registration opens (participants and attendees) | 5 October 2026 |
| Camera-ready version | 16 October 2026 |
| Regitration closes (participants) | 26 October 2026 |
| Regitration closes (attendees) | 9 November 2026 |
| Conference | 18 – 19 November 2026 |