Dear friends and colleagues, I am excited to share the CFP for the 2018 Different Games Conference. As a core member of the Different Games Collective, I would be thrilled to see submissions from AoIR members. Please find the CFP below. All the best, Brian McKernan, Ph.D. Assistant Professor of Sociology Department of Interdisciplinary Studies The Sage Colleges Albany, NY 12208 Call for Participants: Different Games Conference 2018 Different Games, the first conference on inclusivity and diversity in games, invites participants for its 2018 edition, now sponsored by Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI), located in Worcester, MA on Friday October 12 through Sunday October 14 on the WPI campus. Critical voices from across the games community— including designers, activists, researchers, educators, journalists and others— are invited to present new and recent work as part of our three-day program. Submission Formats - Paper Presentations and Talks - Pre-constituted Panels - Workshops - Games Submission Deadlines - Paper Presentations, Talks, Panels, and Workshops: Deadline 6/15/18 - Arcade Games: Deadline 6/29/18 For more information or to submit to Different Games Conference 2018, please visit our conference website: https://2018.differentgames.org/. For more information about the Different Games Collective, visit http://www.differentgames.org/. You may send any further questions to DifferentGamesConference@gmail.com.