Cultural Heritage of Games Webinar 2025–6

[Walter Crist]

The Cultural Heritage of Games Webinar continues into 2026 with a new slate of talks! We were very pleased with our talks over the past year, so the webinar will continue. Here is the upcoming schedule; we look forward to seeing you next week for the next installment! September 16, 18:00 CET Elke Rogersdotter and Indrė Jovaišaitė-Blaževičienė: Traces of maze games in early civilisations October Jorge Nuno Silva: Giving new life to a Moral Game November Raamesh Gowri Raghavan: The boardgame as manuscript December Alexandra Vieira: Board games in Roman and medieval contexts in Portugal: Archaeological Evidence January 2026 James Masters: TBD and Ivan Nikolov: Using LLM as spectators for the digital version of ancient Nordic board game hnefatafl February Ashwini Gawli: Graffiti games: patterns, prevalence and provenance March Barbara Carè: Mind the trap! A long story of misconceptions about astragali and dice April Marco Tibaldini: Ancient and medieval boardgames common to Chinese and European tradition May Linda Dobosi: Game boards and game pieces from Roman Pannonia June Marco Vespa: Did the Athenians gamble in sanctuaries? A brief inquiry into the Skirapheia July Tim Penn and Fatih Parlak: Boardgames at Aphrodisias from the Roman to Ottoman periods: documentation to establish standardised recording protocols

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Walter Crist, Ph.D.

Lecturer

Centre for the Arts in Society

Faculty of Humanities

Leiden University

Arsenaalstraat 1

2311 CT Leiden

The Netherlands