BGSX XVI PONTA DELGADA 2013
The International Society for Board Game Studies holds yearly colloquia in which scholars, university professors, museum curators, historians, archaeologists, psychologists, mathematicians, game inventors, collectors and others share their research results on board games. Previous BGS colloquia have been held in the Netherlands, Italy, Switzerland, Spain, Germany , USA, UK, Brazil, Austria, Portugal, Israel, France…
The University of Azores and the Ludus Association will organize the Board Game Studies Colloquium XVI.
The Colloquium will be hosted by the University of Azores.
Scientific Committee
- Alex de Voogt, USA
- Edite Alberto, Portugal
- Fernanda Frazão, Portugal
- Irving Finkel, UK
- João Pedro Neto, Portugal
- Jorge Nuno Silva, Portugal
- Lídia Fernandes, Portugal
- Thierry Depaulis, France
- Ulrich Shädler, Switzerland
Organizing Committee
- Alda Carvalho, Portugal
- Ana Paula Garrão, Portugal
- Carlos Pereira dos Santos, Portugal
- Jorge Nuno Silva, Portugal
- Margarida Dias, Portugal
- Ricardo Cunha Teixeira, Portugal
Wednesday, 3rd April
8:30– Welcome and registration
9:15 – Opening Session
9:30 – Writing systems and games: a curious marriage in the western Pacific(BGS+RM)
_ Alex Voogt, American Museum of Natural History
10:30 – Counting with counters: Gerbert’s abacus(BGS+RM)
_ Jorge Nuno Silva, University of Lisbon
11:00 – Coffee-Break
11:30 – An update to the multilated chessboard (BGS+RM)
_ Colin Wright, Liverpool Mathematical Society (Invited Speaker)
12:30 – Quadratum (BGS+RM)
_ Helena Melo, University of Azores & CMATI
13:00 – Break for lunch
14:30 – Marbles-a Roman game reexamined
_ Ulrich Schädler, The Swiss Museum of Games
15:30 – A game of moral precepts
_ Tiago Santos, University of Lisbon
16:00 – Coffee-Break
16:30 – Games in space: Distributional patterns of games in bronze age Cyprus
_ Walter Crist, Arizona State University
17:00 – The story of Harm van Veen and his game TRANSET
_ Fred Horn, Games Inventor
17:30 – From Pachisi to Poleana:
_ brief ethnographic study in relation to cultural diffusion of gameso
_ Alfonso Atala Layún
18:00 – The Roman games of an elite?
_ Board game objects in late imperial graves of the barbaricum
_ Anne Widura, Ruhr-University Bochum
19:00 – 20:00 Welcome Cocktail
Thursday, 4th April
9:30 – Piet Hein & the murder of NIM (BGS+RM)
_ Thane Plambeck (Invited Speaker)
10:30 – What is a «good» board game? (BGS+RM)
_ Carlos Pereira dos Santos, ISEC
11:00 – Coffee-Break
11:30 – Three new math-games for experiencing the interplay between algebra,
_ geometry, and symmetry (BGS+RM)
_ Oliver Labs, Universität des Saarlandes (Invited Speaker)
12:30 – Ancient egyptian boardgames: an historical account (BGS+RM)
_ Joaquim Eurico Nogueira, New University of Lisbon
13:00 – Break for lunch
15:00 – Social
Friday, 5th April
09:00 – Order in the ranks (BGS+RM)
_ Pedro J. Freitas, University of Lisbon (Invited Speaker)
10:00 – Coffee-Break
10:30 – Mathematical Circus (Open to All)
_ Ludus Association
11:10 – Presentation of Mathematics of Planet Earth 2013 (Open to All)
_ Carlota Simões, University of Coimbra, Ana Paula Garrão, University of Azores
11:20 – Presentation of Mathematics of Planet Earth 2013 (Open to All)
_ Jorge Nuno Silva, José Francisco Rodrigues, University of Lisbon
11:40 – Presentation of Mathematics of Planet Earth 2013 (Open to All)
_ Ricardo Teixeira, University of Azores
12:00 – Magic Show (Open to All)
_ Lennart Green, World Champion close-up/card Magician (Invited)
13:00 – Break for lunch
14:30 – Miniature silver draughts and merels boards
_ in 17th. and 18th. century doll’s houses
_ Wim van Mourik, Royal Dutch Draughts Association
15:00 – Gamebords incized in temple floors
_ Ute Rettberg
15:30 – Ludus Latrunculorum’s boards in the far west of the Roman Empire:
_ the ancient castle of Lousa
_ Lídia Fernandes, Museu da Cidade
16:00 – Coffee-Break
16:30 – Playing cards. The state of the art and the publications
_ Fernanda Frazão, Apenas Livros
17:00 – Boards games in the Indian peoples natives of the Patagonia Argentina
_ Ferrarese Capettini, Ethnic Toys Museum “Allel Kuzen”
17:30 – A Lewis Carroll game played by Portuguese students
_ Dores Ferreira, University of Minho
18:00 – Gaming pieces in the graves: playing in the underworld?
_ The diffusion of knucklebones in Greek funerary contexts
_ Barbara Carè, University of Turin
18:30 – Interesting Announcements
_ Jorge Nuno SIlva, Carlos Santos, Ludus Association
19:30 – Conference Dinner
Saturday, 6th April
09:30 – Game profiling (BGS+RM)
_ Richard Nowakowski, Dalhaousie University (Invited Speaker)
10:30 – “Zermelo’s Theorem” is called “Zermelo’s Theorem” ? (BGS+RM)
_ Lisa Rougetet, University of Science and Technology of Lille
11:00 – Coffee-Break
11:30 – Vanishing area puzzles (BGS+RM)
_ David Singmaster, Retired of London South Bank University (Invited Speaker)
12:30 – Lasker and mathematics (BGS+RM)
_ Jurgen Stigter, TWA
13:00 – Break for lunch
14:30 – The Portuguese edition of Alfonso’s Book of Games
_ Jorge Nuno Silva, University of Lisbon
15:00 – Chess, backgammon and other board games in pre-Islamic Java
_ Jiri Jakl, University of Queensland
15:30 – Problem solving situations in the game of traffic lights solved by
_ visual impaired students
_ Carlota Dias, ES Matias Ayres
16:30 – Closing Session
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