Board Game Studies XIIIth Colloquium

Here is the program information for the upcoming Board Games Studies Colloquium to be held in Paris April 14 - 17, 2010. Thanks to Thierry Depaulis for the email heads-up. You can also find information at Board Games Studies, along with information on past Colloquia. PROVISIONAL PROGRAMME This programme is provisional and may be modified without previous notice. Wednesday 14 April, morning session Jean-Marie Lhôte (invited speaker), Opening Lecture Mathematical Games in History Jorge Nuno Silva, "George Berkeley's Ludus Algebraicus" Alda Carvalho, João P. Neto, Carlos Santos, Jorge Nuno Silva, "History of Nim Games" Discussion Wednesday 14 April, afternoon session Ancient and Medieval Archaeology Anne-Elizabeth Vaturi, "Fragments of a game of 58 Holes among the Pratt ivories in the Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York)" Claudia-Maria Behling, "Games involving nuts as a topos for childhood in Late Antiquity and pre-Christian time" Marko Jankovic, "Board game accessories in Roman graves of Moesia Superior (more or less present Serbia)" Mark A. Hall & Katherine Forsyth, "On the compatibility of Gaelic ‘Fidcheall’ and its P–Celtic cognates with the Roman introduction of Tafl-like games to the British Isles" Mark A. Hall, "Black to move: a look at some jet chess pieces from Britain" Ulrich Schädler, "Le plateau de jeu d'Autun : romain ou Renaissance ?" Discussion Thursday 15 April, morning session Maths, Computers & Games Tristan Cazenave, Abdallah Saffidine, "Monte-Carlo Hex" Tristan Cazenave, Nicolas Jouandeau, "Towards deadlock free Sokoban" Jean Mehat, Tristan Cazenave, "Ary, a general game playing program" Olivier Teytaud, "Game of Go: recent progress for an old game" Fabien Teytaud, "Game of Havannah: nice challenge for computers" Discussion Thursday 15 April, afternoon session 20th-Century Archaeology Michel Boutin, "Circulation des jeux de pions entre éditeurs français et étrangers autour de 1900 : brevets, marques, plagiats..." Edward Copisarow, "Board games in English intellectual property registers before WWI" Gadi Kfir, "Hunting for Board Games in Poland" Fred Horn, "Lost treasures: hidden gems of abstract/strategic board games within the pages of Games & Puzzles nos 1-77 (1972-80)" Manouk Borzakian, "Pistes pour une approche géographique des jeux de plateau" Discussion Friday 16 April, morning session Games in Theory and in Practice Michel Quenault, Tristan Cazenave, "General gaming: une classification des jeux basée sur les mécanismes possibles de l'arbitre pour une généricité des jeux plus étendue" David Parlett, "Abstraction and representation in games" Michele B. King, "From gangsta’ to gamester: an entertainment-education strategy for a school-based gang prevention program" Michel Van Langendonckt, "Vers une typologie des interactions sociales dans les jeux de pions" Dores Ferreira, Pedro Palhares, Jorge Nuno Silva, "The ability to play games and its connection with pattern recognition" Carlota Dias, Jorge Nuno Silva, Pedro Palhares, "Mathematical Games for the Blind" Discussion Friday 16 April, afternoon session Visits of the Louvre (Oriental and Egyptian Antiquities) and of the Cabinet des Médailles (BnF) ("Charlemagne" chesspieces, various unpublished small objects – dice, gamepieces, counters, tesserae – from the Froehner Collection) Friday 16 April, evening Official dinner at the "Au Moulin Vert" Restaurant, 34bis rue des Plantes, 75014 Paris Saturday 17 April, morning session Games in History Arie van der Stoep, "Footsteps of the past" (On alquerque and draughts) David H. Caldwell & Mark A. Hall, "What do we really know about the Lewis chessmen?" Phil Winkelman, "A∂ elta stelpur: an Icelandic chimera" Thierry Depaulis, "Three early 17th-century printed board games by the Veuve Petit in Paris" Phillippa Plock & Adrian Seville, "The Rothschild Collection of printed board games at Waddesdon Manor" Bruce Whitehill, "‘The Game of Life’, Milton Bradley's first game, 1860" Discussion Saturday 17 April, afternoon session Traditional Games Dr. V. Balambal, "Kallankai, a traditional stone-catching game" Alex de Voogt, "The archaeology and anthropology of Syrian mancala" Peter Michaelsen, "Haretavl - hare and hounds as a board game" Thorsten Traulsen, "Some historical issues of the Korean Yut game" Peter Shotwell, "a talk about the traditional Tibetan form of Go" Piotr Adamczyk, "Short history of board games in Poland (from around 1st cent. A.D. till 17th cent.)"