Board Games Studies
XIII Colloquium
Paris, France
April 14 - 17, 2010

It is so unfortunate that the colloquia are usually held in April.  I can NEVER get away in April - it's tax season from January 1st until April 15th, for Goddess' sake!  Here is the revised provisional schedule - 37 presentations and many of them I would love to hear.  I am so sad.

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, "The Game of Go: recent progress for an old game"

Fabien Teytaud, "The 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, "Chronologies using British 19th-century Intellectual Property records: Ludo, Agon and Reversi"

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)"

Tom Werneck, "The impact of the Award ‘Spiel des Jahres’ on the Development of the Market for Board Games in Germany"

Discussion

Friday 16 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

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

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"

Irving Finkel, "A very early counting system in traditional Indian games
and some implications"

Piotr Adamczyk, "Short history of board games in Poland (from around 1st cent. A.D. till 17th cent.)"

Discussion

Saturday 17 April, afternoon 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"

Manouk Borzakian, "Pistes pour une approche géographique des jeux de plateau"

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