This afternoon, in connection with the "Games across Asia: The Primary Sources of Play" workshop, we are also hosting an Open Play Session for anyone interested in hands-on experience with Asian board games.

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📢 We are excited to announce our next High Gravity Talk with @audreytruschke.bsky.social entitled "Fieldnotes from Battles over Indian History, Society, and Sciences" on November 20, 2025, 16:00 at the Leibniz Hall, Berlin. @mpiwg.bsky.social
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Last week, postdoctoral fellow Dr Hamid Bohloul went to Istanbul Medeniyet University’s Science and Advanced Technology Research and Application Center to discuss ways of reconstructing Ibn al-Shatir's astrolabe clock 1/2 ...

👏 Our Postdoctoral Fellow Hamid Bohloul recently delivered a paper in the Ptolemaeus Arabus et Latinus (PAL) colloquium at the Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften in Munich.

Yesterday Prof. Frank Rövekamp (Ludwigshafen University of Applied Sciences) gave an inspiring and lively talk on Shogi, the Japanese cousin of Western chess, in the ASTRA colloquium series "The Ludic Languages of Asia: Sources and Terminologies".

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👏 We are delighted to share ASTRA's latest Feature Story "Playing with the Stars: Heavenly Knowledge, Trans-Regional Journeys, and the Performance of Astral Sciences across Asia".

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📢 Check out our latest Working Group "Celestial Counselors: Astrologers at the Crossroads of Power in Islamicate Courts" run by Prof. Anuj Misra and Dr. Hamid Bohloul. www.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/research/pro...

📢 Do you want to know more about Shoji, the Japanese cousin of Western chess? Tune in for our next talk "Shogi in the Edo-Period (1600–1867): Glimpses of Real Life from the Ohashi Diaries" by Frank Rövekamp.

📅 : May 14, 2025, 13:00-14:30
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📢 We are excited to announce our first High Gravity Talk.

On April 7, 2025, Prof. Alex de Voogt will give a lecture entitled "The Ludic Lexicon and the History of Games" in the Hahn Lecture Hall at the Harnack House in Berlin.

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