Nordic DiGRA 2025
26–28 May 2025 in Turku, Finland

In the Nordic DiGRA 2025 conference, we invite authors interested in games, play, game creation, and related phenomena, regardless of discipline, to submit their work connected to the conference theme of hope in its various forms. We invite perspectives related to, for example, participant cultures, game design and production, readings of games, gamification and game-related phenomena, and theoretical and methodological development. The topic is also a call for game scholarly self-reflection: do we risk becoming doomsayers to avoid being seen as naïve? What kind of narratives of game culture and the world are we telling and subscribing to? Are we solving, hiding, or exacerbating problems?
Nordic DiGRA 2025 is organised on 26–28 May 2025 in Turku, Finland, at the University of Turku by the Finnish Society for Game Research, in collaboration with the Centre of Excellence in Game Culture Studies.
Nordic DiGRA 2025 conference committee has assembled Inclusion and Safety regulations for the conference, which will be followed.
Conference fees (preliminary)
The final full fee will be no higher than 200 euros.
All other fees, including discount fees, will be announced at a later time.
The discount fee applies to students without university employment (bachelor’s, master’s and doctoral), researchers not affiliated with any academic institution, retirees, and scholars from Low Income and Lower Middle Income countries according to the most recent World Bank Classification.
Important dates
- Submission deadline: Friday 10 January 2025
- Notification of acceptance: Friday 28 February 2025
- Camera-ready version submission deadline: Friday 25 April 2025
- Early bird registration deadline: Friday 28 March 2025
- Regular registration deadline: Friday 9 May 2025