The Historical Significance of Games: From Ancient Board Games to the Digital Future

Jacob Schmidt-Madsen holds an MA in Indology from the University of Copenhagen and a PhD in traditional South Asian games from the same institution. His work explores how formal game systems are invested with meaning and used for purposes of ritual, divination, education, and other playful yet serious practices. He recently moved to Berlin to take up a position as a postdoctoral scholar in the Astral Sciences in Trans-Regional Asia (ASTRA) research group at the Max Planck Institute for the H...