Accio Schedule of Events

Friday, 29 July 2005

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

TimeTrack 1Track 2Track 3Track 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 - 10.50Coffee 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 - 14.00Lunch 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 - 15.50Tea 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 - 21.30Feast - Including Keynote Speaker: Steve Vander Ark and Charity Auction
Cedar Room
21.30 - 02.00Informal Round Tables
Cedar Room

Sunday, 31 July 2005

TimeTrack 1Track 2Track 3Track 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 - 10.50Coffee 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 - 14.00Lunch - 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.