Accio Schedule of Events

Friday, 29 July 2005

Time	Event
14.00 - 16.00	Registration & meet and greet with Steve Vander Ark
16.00 - 16.15	Welcome: Accio Chair, Ali Hewison
16.15 - 17.15	Keynote: Edmund Kern: The Phoenix in Harry Potter: the Metaphoric Power of the Past.
17.15 - 18.30	Dinner
18.30 - 19.30	Snape Panel Discussion
19.30 - 19.45	Trial Set-up
19.45 - 22.00	Snape Trial
22.00 - 02.00	Retire to Bar

All Friday's events will take place in the large Lecture theatre, with the exception of dinner and a meet and greet with Steve.

Saturday, 30 July 2005

Time	Track 1	Track 2	Track 3	Track 4
09.00 - 10.00	Stephanie Dutchen Mischief Managed: The Marauders ride again in Fan Fiction	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	Hans Andréa Harry Potter: The road map to liberating alchemy	Episodic Literature Panel Moderator: Ali Hewison
10.05 - 10.35	Ruth Roulston Muggle Magic: Have they caught up with us?	David Rafer Mythic symbols in 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	Dealers' Room and Fan Art Exhibition
10.35 - 10.50	Coffee Break
10.50 - 11.50	Book 6 Panel Moderator: Steve Vander Ark	Robyn Steggles Looking beyond the words - Ideas, morals and values for children, using the literature of JK Rowling	Alicia Willson-Metzger Thestrals in the Moonlight: Existential Intelligence in J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
12.00 - 13.00	Mike Gray Between subversions and conversion: religious identity and narrative in His Dark Materials, Left Behind and Harry Potter	Troels Forchhammer Twists and Turns in Time	Phyllis Morris Elements of Arthurian tradition in Harry Potter
13.00 - 14.00	Lunch Break
14.00 - 14.30	Carla Hodge Characterisation of Rita Skeeter, Dolores Umbridge and Bellatrix Lestrange and the creation of degrees of evil	Lisa Cherrett Harry Potter and the Bible	Karen McGavock Harry Potter and the deconstruction of childhood
14.35 - 15.35	Rosemary Watson Whodunnit? The case against Remus Lupin	Ursula Bergenthal Jack shall have Jill, Naught shall go Ill. Harry Potter , a traditional love story? "Shipping" as narrative and aesthetic strategy	Diana Patterson The nameless world of Harry Potter
15.35 - 15.50	Tea Break
15.50 - 16.20	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	Amy Miller Why do the Harry Potter books resonate so personally? Giuliana Peresso The Harry Potter series: Retelling and reawakening Gill James Harry Potter - all things to all people? Audience Debate - Moderator: Amy Miller	Elizabeth Kay's Creative Writing Workshop Max. 12 participants - Register now to avoid dissapointment.
16.25 - 16.55	Kiah Morris Hermione's Gaze into the Mirror of Erised	Michael Howarth Forbidden Forests: The Sublime in J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter Novels
17.00 - 18.00	S P Sipal Geomancy and Alchemy in Harry Potter Audrey Spindler Harry's journey towards gold. Alchemical symbols in the Harry Potter series	Petra Rehling Cyber Harry: Do computers influence the way children read? And: Similarities between Potterworld and Cyberspace.
19.30 - 21.30	Feast - Including Keynote Speaker: Steve Vander Ark and Charity Auction Cedar Room
21.30 - 02.00	Informal Round Tables Cedar Room

Sunday, 31 July 2005

Time	Track 1	Track 2	Track 3	Track 4
09.00 - 10.00	Gili Bar-Hillel Splinched in translation: A translator's perspective on the tricky business of rendering Harry Potter in a foreign language	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	Socio/Political panel Ursula Mueller et al.	Book 7 speculation panel
10.05 - 10.35	Tim Regan How statistics and computer-based visualisations contribute to our understanding of Harry Potter	Steve Barfield On being the "Chosen One": Narratives of psychosis and prophecy and their relationship to the Harry Potter books	A L Carpenter The Veil of Mystery	Kimberly Lesk Getting stoned at Hogwarts - The Gorgon threat in Chamber of Secrets
10.35 - 10.50	Coffee Break
10.50 - 11.20	Amy Miller Is Harry Potter still a nice Jewish boy? A Jewish Perspective on Harry Potter Part 2	World Wizarding Press Workshop Hosted by S P Sipal From Online to Paperback: The Making of The Plot Thickens: Harry Potter Investigated by Fans for Fans	Andrea Schutz Beings and the Beast - Free will, destiny, contagion for animagi and werewolf	Quidditch
11.20 - 11.50	Cia Sautter Blessed are you for creating Harry - Jewish affinity with JK Rowling's Tale		Renee Ward Shape-shifting, Identity, and Change in Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
12.00 - 13.00	A J Hall Which beast is more fantastic: the rule of law or the crumpled horned snorkack?	Shipping Round Table Serena Culfeather and Liz Taylor	Gwen Tarbox Presented by Joy Morgenstern From convention to insurgency: JK Rowling's critique of childhood innocence in the Harry Potter series
13.00 - 14.00	Lunch - Including Keynote Speaker: Elizabeth Kay

Upon registration, Accio delegates will receive a programme including a precise of each presentation. A book of full abstracts is also available in Word and PDF formats.

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