Conference on the History of Games in Portugal IV

The fourth History of the Games in Portugal Conference will take place on 12 December 2015 in the Extraction Room of the Santa Casa da Misericórdia de Lisboa (Largo Trindade Coelho, 1200-470 Lisbon) between 9:00 and 18:00. Registration is free.

The History of Games in Portugal – IV Conference features the participation of two of the most important experts worldwide, Thierry Depaulis and Ulrich Schädler.

Organization

Scientific Committee

Lydia Fernandes | lidia.fernandes@cm-lisboa.pt

Fernanda Frazao | fernandarbfrazao@gmail.com

Jorge Nuno Silvajnsilva@cal.berkeley.edu

Organizing Committee

Lydia Fernandes | lidia.fernandes@cm-lisboa.pt

Fernanda Frazao | fernandarbfrazao@gmail.com

Jorge Nuno Silvajnsilva@cal.berkeley.edu

Anabela Teixeira | ateixeira@museus.ulisboa.pt

Tiago Santos | xztiago@gmail.com

Guest Speakers

Ulrich Schädler

Ulrich Schädler, PD Dr. phil. (*1958); since 2002 Director of the Swiss Museum of Games at La Tour-de-Peilz; Privatdozent of Ancient and Medieval Cultural History at the University of Fribourg (Switzerland).

Studies in Architecture (Technical University Darmstadt), Greek & Roman Archaeology, Prehistory and Ancient History at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Germany, and at the Università “La Sapienza”, Rome, Italy.

Co-editor (together with Rainer Buland) of “Ludographie – Spiel und Spiele”.

Thierry Depaulis

Prepress manager and editor, studies in History (Bordeaux University), game and playing-card collector, independent game historian mostly interested in “mind” games. Honorary Fellow and Chairman of the International Playing-Card Society, 1992 Modiano Prize (for his publications on the history of playing cards and card games), President of “Le Vieux Papier”, a society devoted to the study of ephemera and other popular prints .

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