Dr. Walter Crist

Football Shirts as Heritage: Archiving Identity - Football Makes History This article examines the approaches of three English clubs to archiving football shirts, highlighting their heritage value as symbols of identity, memory, and community.

"More than just sportswear" - read former MA Heritage & Museum Studies student Stijn van Gerrevink's article on football shirts as heritage:

footballmakeshistory.eu/football-shi...

Beyond Fun and Games? Rethinking Archaeogaming, Play, and DigitalHeritage - It's more of a comment... At #CAA2026, Aris Politopoulos & I are hosting a session on #archaeogaming! We’ll explore inclusivity, ethics, critical limits and much more!

🎮 At #CAA2026 in Vienna, Aris Politopoulos & I are co-hosting a session on archaeology + play!

We’ll explore inclusivity, ethics, critical limits—and how archaeogaming can challenge dominant narratives.

Blog post 👉 itsmoreofacomment.com/2025/09/26/b...

#Archaeogaming #DigitalHeritage

A herd of sheep move across a marshy bridge.

yeah we're into LLMs (Large Lamb-bridge Models)

Please please please everyone (pls reskeet) who is involved with a uni/college academic program (broadly speaking) conected to games Could you write a quick comment + links if any apply to what you and your institution are doing in that sphere? I need to show what's out there. 1/
#AncientBluesky 🗃️

We have a Game Studies minor in the Faculty of Humanities at Leiden University: www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/education...
Also lots of people in Humanities, Archaeology, Computer Science, and probably other disciplines as well that touch on games in their teaching/research.

Breaking news: Netherlands to return the Dubois collection of fossils to Indonesia

Ancient art has suggested that brown bears were among the animals that gladiators fought back in Roman times, but a scientific research team working in Serbia has now found direct evidence of this in bones. buff.ly/gDXBi9U

📢 We are excited to participate in this year's Berlin Science Week with an exhibition "Cosmic Games: Real Gods Play Dice" and a workshop "Playing with the Past: Reconstructing Ancient Games".

@mpiwg.bsky.social

🔗 www.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/event/cosmic...

🔗 www.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/event/playin...

Free registration requested to attend in person; more details can be found in Linktree or on website: interactivepasts.com/the-interact...
@costprogramme.bsky.social
#universityofleiden #ca22145 #costaction #costprogramme #archeaology #digitalhumanities #gamedevelopment

Join us for The Interactive Pasts Conference 4: The Fellowship of Past and Play 8–10 October at the Leiden University Faculty of Archaeology and on Twitch! Playful workshops, exciting talks, two great panels, and a games exhibit await! See thread below for links!

Woop woop, 1 week left for registrations, 2 weeks (give or take) for the actual conference!!!! Register now!

Interested in how to use AI with archaeological methods to study games? Come listen to GameTable Vice Chair Walter Crist talk about some examples for the Archaeological Institute of America Central Arizona Society Lecture Series, Thursday, September 25 at 1800 MST!

Zoom in Linktree!

Digital Approaches to a Qing Chinese Boardgame. Online lecture by Prof. Elisabeth Kaske from the University of Leipzig.
Part of the Ludic Languages of Asia lecture series hosted by Jacob Schmidt-Madsen at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin.
Sept 24th - 10:00 - 11:00 CET

Grand Theft Mario Kart

Critics just cant appreciate all the corny one-liners that make up the entire script lol

Post a movie you like with a terrible Rotten Tomatoes score

CALL FOR PAPERS! We are accepting papers for Computational Techniques for Games Heritage, a special issue of the ACM Journal on Computing and Cultural Heritage! See below for more info or reach out if you have questions! dl.acm.org/pb-assets/st...

And this exhibition will include really cool video game versions of the Royal Game of Ur and Senet that @apolitopoulos.bsky.social @docrandom.bsky.social and I advised on. Lots of cool stuff at TIPC4, come if you can!

Super excited to be a part of this panel discussing playful archaeology!

Come learn about ancient board games and try your hand at figuring out the rules for them!