The 25th Board Game Studies Colloquium, 2023: Program

The conference program for the upcoming BGS colloquium (April 11-14, in Şirince near Ephesus, Turkey) is now available. Here is a summary of just the speakers and topics. You can access the full program via the conference website. It includes the schedule and abstracts.

Keynote lectures
- Ulrich Schädler: “Arab and Turkish Games on the Ayasoluk”
- Alex de Voogt: “The Board Game Lens”
Session 1: Divination and Rituals
- May the players be protected: benevolent motifs on the game of 58 holes (Anne-Elizabeth Dunn-Vaturi)
- Theories for the use of the Tesserae Lusoriae: sortes, pittacia or a game? (Ilaria Truzzi)
- Astragals and dice: gaming device and tools for divination (Marco Tibaldini)
- Is that a hnefi in your mouth, or are you just pleased to see me? An intriguing example of game-piece placement in an early Viking ship burial at Salme, on the Estonian island of Saaremaa (Eddie Duggan)
Session 2: Games across Cultures and Genders
- Winning with a broken die (Jonas Richter)
- Women and Luck in Myths and Literature (Hannah Freundlich)
- Akshadyuta: Legacy of a Lost Game (Jacob Schmidt-Madsen)
Session 3: Online presenters
- Rolling, flipping, and writing in modern board games: practical application to game design and teaching (Micael Sousa)
- Revisiting the path from Pachisi to Poleana: opening debates about cultural diffusion of board games (Alfonso Atala)
- Documentation of Ancient Board Games from Rock Cut Caves of Maharashtra, their Cultural Continuity and Possibility of Relative Dating (Aswini Gawli)
- God Comes to Play: Lord Venkateshwara plays the board game – Pagaday, with his devotee (Singh Gyaneshwar)
- Goddess and her solitary game (Dharmendra H.S.)
Session 4: Games beyond Myth
- The Assembly of the Wicked: Notes towards a unified theory of board games (Chris van de Riet)
- “A Perfectly Elegant Political Solution”: Board Games, Contemporary Fantasy, and the Political Unknown (Samantha Hammond)
- Once upon a time, when famine prevailed… Juxtaposing creation myths with urban myths regarding games and gaming (Elke Rogersdotter)
Session 5 “Evolution of Roman Board Games
- Playing in Pompeii: research on the play culture of the ancient city (Alessandro Pace)
- Allusions to gaming practices in the Cento de Alea (Gabriella Carbone)
- Messing about with tables boards (Georgi Markov)
Session 6: Play as Politics and Legendary Players
- The Myth of Innocent Play: Colonialism and Boardgames (Mary Flanagan)
- The Genealogy of Chinese Shengguan tu: The Transformations of Culture and Space on the Game Board after the Qing Dynasty (Lei Tianyue)
- Draughts, myths and legends in 19th century Friesland. (Marten Walinga)
Session 7: Sacred Geometry of Chance
- Tackling the Myths of Ancient Play: Reflections from the Digital Ludeme Project (Walter Crist)
- Cardano, the physician and mathematician, in his role as a gambler in the 16th century (Carla Cardoso)
- La Fortuna, Crisis and Board Games in Early Modern Period (Fatih Parlak)
- Numeri e Pedine Project: teaching myth of mathematics by board games (Liliana Silva)
Session 8: Contemporary Narratives in Board Games
- Myths and promises of narrative gaming. How can we analyze the emergence of procedural narrative in board games? (Samuel Francblu)
- Construction of Persona Through Personal Mythology in Dungeons & Dragons (Aylin Pekanik)
- Open D&D: Dungeons & Dragons as Democratic Mythmaking (Himadri Agarwal)
Cultural Events and Extras
Apart from a game night and conference dinner, these opportunities will also be available:
- Trip to Ephesus
- Artemis Temple
- Ayasuluk Fortress
- Ephesus Archaeological Museum
- Post-Colloquium Excursion to Magnesia and Kuşadası Castle
There will also be a Round Table Discussion about the future of the Board Game Studies Colloquium.
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Jonas Richter (31. März 2023). The 25th Board Game Studies Colloquium, 2023: Program. GeSpiele. Abgerufen am 17. Februar 2025 von https://doi.org/10.58079/p14d