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image: Stick dice, India, 19th century, Private
Collection.
To coincide with the exhibition Asian Games: The Art of
Contest this multidisciplinary symposium will examine
the importance of games and sport in Asian societies and their
global impact, past and present.
9:00-10:00 a.m.
Registration
10:00 a.m.
Welcoming Remarks
Melissa Chiu, director, Asia Society
Museum
10:00 - 11:00 a.m.
Invention and Evolution: The
Natural History of Games
David Parlett, inventor/author
11:00 a.m. - Noon
Liubo and Divination in China
Colin Mackenzie, Middlebury College and
cocurator of Asian Games
Noon - 1:00 p.m.
A Game of Polo with a Headless
Goat: In Search of the Ancient Games of Asia
Emma Levine, journalist
1:00 - 2:30 p.m.
Lunch break and Asian Games exhibition
viewing
2:30 - 3:30 p.m.
Asian Games in the Western
Imagination
Irving L. Finkel, The British Museum
and cocurator of Asian Games
3:30 - 4:30 p.m.
Medieval Games Between Gambling
and Science
Ulrich Schaedler (Musee Suisse du Jeu/Swiss
Museum of Games)
4:30 - 6:00 p.m.
Origins and Strategies of Go:
A Lecture Demonstration
Feng Yun, Go master, with David Saunders,
amateur Go player
Tickets: $20 students;
$30 members; $45 nonmembers
For information contact the Asia Society Box Office:
(212) 517-ASIA
Asian Games: The Art of Contest
and related programs are made possible with support
from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the
National Endowment for the Arts.
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