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Programme of Events - See also our Schedule for the running order
Snape - love him or hate him? Now it's time to prove his innocence or guilt. Snape's Trial will take place in a fun, but highly charged plenary session on Friday evening.
Papers
We are pleased to announce the following papers which will form part of our balanced programme of events for Accio:
| Author | Title |
| A J Hall |
Which beast is more fantastic: the rule of law or the crumpled horned snorkack? |
| A L Carpenter |
The Veil of Mystery |
| Alicia Willson-Metzger |
Thestrals in the Moonlight: Existential Intelligence in J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix |
| Amy Miller |
Why do the Harry Potter books resonate so personally? |
| Amy Miller |
Is Harry Potter still a nice Jewish boy? A Jewish Perspective on Harry Potter Part 2 |
| Andrea Schutz |
Beings and the Beast - Free will, destiny, contagion for animagi and werewolf |
| Audrey Spindler |
Harry's journey towards gold. Alchemical symbols in the Harry Potter series |
| Carla Hodge |
Characterisation of Rita Skeeter, Dolores Umbridge and Bellatrix Lestrange and the creation of degrees of evil |
| Cia Sautter |
Blessed are you for creating Harry - Jewish affinity with JK Rowling's Tale |
| David Rafer |
Mythic symbols in Harry Potter |
| Diana Patterson |
The nameless world of Harry Potter |
| Elena Anastasaki |
Harry Potter through the looking-glass: wordplay and the use of language in the works of J. K. Rowling and Lewis Carroll |
| Gili Bar-Hillel |
Splinched in translation: A translator's perspective on the tricky business of rendering Harry Potter in a foreign language |
| Giuliana Peresso |
The Harry Potter series: Retelling and reawakening |
| Gwen Tarbox |
From convention to insurgency: JK Rowling's critique of childhood innocence in the Harry Potter series |
| Hans Andréa |
Harry Potter: The road map to liberating alchemy |
| Joanna Lipinska |
Social problems of the wizarding community within Harry Potter - House elves |
| John Newton |
From folkloric phantoms to paracelsan spectres: Contexts for reading ghosts in Harry Potter |
| Julia Collar |
Expecto Patronum!: Anti-Bullying and Defense Against the Dark Arts for Muggles
Milton Keynes Anti-Bullying Network's project to teach Middle School children assertiveness techniques using Muggle Magic |
| Karen McGavock |
Harry Potter and the deconstruction of childhood |
| Kiah Morris |
Hermione's Gaze into the Mirror of Erised |
| Kimberly Lesk |
Getting stoned at Hogwarts - The Gorgon threat in Chamber of Secrets |
| Lisa Cherrett |
Harry Potter and the Bible |
| Michael Howarth |
Forbidden Forests: The Sublime in J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter Novels |
| Mike Gray |
Between subversions and conversion: religious identity and narrative in His Dark Materials, Left Behind and Harry Potter |
| Petra Rehling |
Cyber Harry: Do computers influence the way children read?
And: Similarities between Potterworld and Cyberspace. |
| Phyllis Morris |
Elements of Arthurian tradition in Harry Potter |
| Renee Ward |
Shape-shifting, Identity, and Change in Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban |
| Robyn Steggles |
Looking beyond the words - Ideas, morals and values for children, using the literature of JK Rowling |
| Rosemary Watson |
Whodunnit? The case against Remus Lupin |
| Ruth Roulston |
Muggle Magic: Have they caught up with us? |
| S P Sipal |
Geomancy and Alchemy in Harry Potter |
| Stephanie Dutchen |
Mischief Managed: The Marauders ride again in Fan Fiction |
| Steve Barfield |
On being the "Chosen One": Narratives of psychosis and prophecy and their relationship to the Harry Potter books |
| Tim Regan |
How statistics and computer-based visualisations contribute to our understanding of Harry Potter |
| Troels Forchhammer |
Twists and Turns in Time |
| Ursula Bergenthal |
Jack shall have Jill, Naught shall go Ill. Harry Potter , a traditional love story? "Shipping" as narrative and aesthetic strategy |
| Ursula Mueller |
Choosing between "what is right and what is easy" - the anatomy of Power and the Conquering of the Self in J K Rowling's Work |
| Wendy Richardson |
A comparison analysis of the boy mage in Susan Cooper's The Dark is Rising, in Ursula K LeGuin's A Wizard of Earthsea and in JK Rowling's Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone |
Workshops
In addition to our paper presentations, two workshops will be hosted by invited professionals:
The full programme including further papers, events and further guest speakers will be announced in due course.
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This conference is an unofficial event and is not endorsed or sanctioned by Warner Bros., the Harry Potter book publishers or J.K. Rowling and her representatives.
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