WG2 Webinar series 2025-2026
Starting in September 2025, WG2 will be hosting a series of monthly webinars. You can view the current schedule here:
- September 16, 2025: Elke Rogersdotter and Indrė Jovaišaitė-Blaževičienė - Traces of maze games in early civilisations.
- October 28, 2025: Jorge Nuno Silva - Giving new life to a Moral Game.
- November 25, 2025: Mahdi Vazini Afzal: - Exploring Persian manuscript traditions of chess, ganjifa, and backgammon: challenges of religion, custom, and creativity.
- December 16, 2025: Raamesh Gowri Raghavan - The boardgame as manuscript.
- January, 2026: James Masters - Title to be defined
- January, 2026: Ivan Nikolov - Using LLM as spectators for the digital version of ancient Nordic board game hnefatafl.
- February, 2026: Ashwini Gawli - Graffiti games: patterns, prevalence and provenance.
- March, 2026: Barbara Caré - Mind the trap! A long story of misconceptions about astragali and dice.
- April, 2026: Marco Tibaldini - Ancient and medieval boardgames common to Chinese and European tradition.
- May, 2026: Linda Dobosi - Game boards and game pieces from Roman Pannonia.
- June, 2026: Marco Vespa - Did the Athenians gamble in sanctuaries? A brief inquiry into the Skirapheia.
- July, 2026: Tim Penn and Fatih Parlak - Boardgames at Aphrodisias from the Roman to Ottoman periods: documentation to establish standardised recording protocols.
- August, 2026: Alexandra Vieira - Board games in Roman and medieval contexts in Portugal: Archaeological Evidence.
COST
COST (European Cooperation in
Science and Technology) is a funding agency for research and innovation networks. Our Actions help connect research initiatives across Europe and enable scientists to grow their ideas by sharing them with their peers. This boosts their research, career and innovation.
ACTION CA22145
GameTable – Computational Techniques for Tabletop Games Heritage. An international and interdisciplinary network of scholars and stakeholders from all career stages across academia, industry, and heritage institutions to inspire methodologies and applications on how to use game AI to study, reconstruct, and preserve the intangible cultural heritage of games.
Action Details
Action Chair: Dr. Éric Piette
Start Date: 24 October 2023
End Date: 23 October 2027
Approval date: 16 May 2023
Grant Holder: UCLouvain
Email: eric.piette@uclouvain.be
