Board Game Studies Colloquia

In September 1990 Irving Finkel, curator and assyriologist for The British Museum, hosted a symposium on the study of board games “Board Games in the Ancient World”.

This encouraged the regular gathering of minds, mainly thanks to Alex De Voogt, starting in 1995 first on a biennial basis, and since 2001 every year. 

Today this meeting is known as the Board Game Studies Colloquium and, in 2023 celebrated its 25th meeting in Ephesus. 

It is so far that the only recurring event devoted solely to the study of non-digital board games hosted at various venues throughout the world. 

The Colloquium gathers a wide range of multidisciplinar scholars, curators, inventors, collectors and enthusiasts from all around the world. They present and discuss new research in the growing field of game studies. The focus has traditionally been on historical board, card, and dice games, but later years have begun to feel the impact from the current explosion in non-digital gaming. 

List of the Board Game Studies Colloquia

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