Conference Host
Organizing Committee
Local Organizers
Cynthia Kempe-Schönfeld
Europäische Spielesammler Gilde
First president of the Europäische Spielesammler Gilde (until 2016), historian, former keeper and director of the Deutschen Spiele museums of Chemnitz.
Thomas Kempe
SIS - Saxon Institute for Play
Together with his wife Cynthia, in 2020 founded the Saxon Institute for Play, which promote studies and researches on the educational implications on games and play.
Remote Organizing Committee
Tiago Hirth
University of Lisbon -Ph.D. Student at the Department of History and Philosophy of Science
Tiago Hirth has helped organise various conferences and events, his main academic interests reside in maths, recreations and informal education.
Lisa Rougetet (Ph.D)
Université de Bretagne Occidentale
Lisa Rougetet teaches at the University of Brest and is deeply involved into recreational mathematics and its history.
Ilaria Truzzi
University or Reading
Ilaria is a Ph.D. candidate in classical archaeology at the University of Reading and her project focuses on gaming practices in Roman Spain.
Marco Tibaldini
University of Genoa
Subject Expert at the University of Genoa, department of Education; board member of Clio '92 and member of the pool of experts of the Observatory on History Teaching of the Council of Europe.
Fatih Parlak
Cappadocia University
Fatih received his PhD in Comparative Literature program at the Autonomous University of Barcelona in 2019 with a dissertation dedicated to early modern board games. He is Assistant Professor at Cappadocia University (Türkiye), and head of the department of English Literature. He is also the assistant editor of the Board Game Studies Journal.
Scientific Comittee
Jorge Nuno Silva
Former Professor at the University of Lisbon
Jorge Nuno Silva teaches mathematics at the University of Lisbon, but his contribution to Game Studies is not limited to this field.
Eddie Duggan
Former Senior Lecturer at the University of Suffolk
Eddie Duggan is deeply interested in the history of board games.
Alex De Voogt
Professor at the Drew University
Associate professor at Drew University with a particular interest in Mancala games.
Ulrich Schädler
Former Director of the Musée Suisse du Jeu
Ulrich Schädler is considered the greatest expert of graeco-roman board games.
Thierry Depaulis
President of the International Playing Cards Society.
Studied playing cards and board games for long and currently is considered the greatest expert of playing cards and card games.
Conference Venue - Chemnitz (Germany)