The Reception of the Ancient World in Cards

Programme

9:45-10:00 am (UK time): Amanda Potter (Open University) and Guen Taietti (Autonomous University of Barcelona & University of Liverpool): welcome and introduction

Morning session (10 am-12 noon)

10:00-10:30 Philip C. Hoehre, Philipps-University Marburg

“Satyrs you control get +1/+1” – Balancing gameplay, story, and myth in Magic’s Theros setting

10:30-11:00 Sonja Schreiner, Institut für Klassische Philologie, Mittel- und Neulatein, Universität Wien

A Woman’s Weapons against a Man’s: Cleopatra vs. Caesar in a Strategy Game

11:00-11:30 Karolina Kulpa, Collegium Da Vinci (Poznań, Poland)

Exploring Antiquity One Card at a Time: Visual Codes and Pedagogy in Similo

Lunch break 11:30 noon-1:30 pm

Extra activities:

Lunch card readings by Amanda Potter

Lunch Live divination by Marios Koutsoukos

Afternoon session (1:30-4:00 pm)

1:30-2:00 Miguel Sanchez Morquecho, PhD Candidate of Ancient History, University of California, San Diego

The Ancient Near East in Stollwerck’s Trading Cards

2:00-2:30 Marios Koutsoukos, Independent Scholar

Seeing the Future Through the Past: The Case of Napoleon’s “Book of Fate”

2:30-3:00 Priscilla Gontijo Leite, UFPB (Brazil)

Teaching Forms of Government through Card Games: The Experience of the Political Vocabulary of Antiquity Project

3:00-3:30 Edythe Malara-Lutjen, Shaker High School

Interview: Using “Creature Feature” card game in the classroom

3:30-4:00 Amanda and Guen’s closing remarks

Zoom link:

https://liverpool-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/96627327547?pwd=F8SwapoC17Rff3qjxa4yTaDO3ts6o1.

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