[1] The IBGSA sponsors an annual scholarly conference, the BGSA Colloquium, as well as an academic peer-reviewed journal, Board Game Studies.
The International Board Game Studies Association grew out of a colloquium organised by Dr Irving Finkel at the British Museum in 1990.
A volume of papers related to this event was subsequently published by the British Museum Press as Ancient Board Games in Perspective.
It was agreed by the members of the International Board Game Studies Association to meet biennially, and the next event was held at Leiden in 1997.
The colloquium continued as a biennial forum, meeting in a different European city every two years, while the journal was published annually.