Programme

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Friday, 25 July 2008

TimeActivities
10.30 - 12.00 Tour of the Bodleian Library
(For Ticket Holders only)
At The Bodleian Library (see map)
12.30 - 14.00Registration
Magdalen College - Auditorium Foyer
14.00 - 14.15Opening Session
Auditorium
14.15 - 15.30Keynote: Emer O'Sullivan: The Wronsky Feint and Other Devices: Self-Reflective and Prophetic Narration in the Harry Potter Novels
Auditorium

15.30 - 16.00Refreshment Break
Auditorium Foyer
TimeAuditorium Summer Common RoomDaubeny Laboratory
16.00 - 18.00 Fan Activity

Giuliana Peresso: From Reading to Creating Harry Potter, an Orientational Approach

Nadine Kirzinger: Harry Potter Fanon: Narratives of Masculinity

Joelle Paré: Magical Musical Manifestations: A Literary Look at Wizard Rock

Religion

C.L. Littlefield: Harry Potter as a Metaphor for Struggling with God

Hans Andréa: The Great Conspiracy in Harry Potter

Harry Abroad

Amany Neiazi, Magda Morad,
and Rihab Lotfi
: The Reception of Harry Potter in Egypt

Silvia Lafontaine: Harry Potter's Literary Magic - Results of an Empirical Reader Study in a German Bookstore

Chia-sui (Crystal) Sun: Many Globalisations: The Dynamic of Culture, Technology and Society - Harry Potter Crosses Borders

18.00 - 19.30Reception with Cash Bar and Snacks
Old Kitchen Bar
Participants are encouraged to make friends and explore Oxford to find food in a Pub or Restaurant

Suggestions are in the registration packet along with maps

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Saturday, 26 July 2008

8.00 - 9.00 Breakfast
(For those in residence)
The Buttery/Hall
9.15 - 10.45 Keynote Speaker Gillian Hall: Lost in Translation? The Harry Potter Canon on Film
Auditorium
10.45 - 11.15Refreshment Break
Auditorium Foyer
TimeAuditoriumSummer Common RoomDaubeny Laboratory
11.15 - 12.15 Character Development

Phyllis Morris: From Gred and Forge to Fred and George: Character Transformation in Harry Potter

Stepping Into Harry Potter's World

Elizabeth Norton-Amor: Shopping with Severus in the Durban Muti Market

Ruth Rickersfeld: Mandragora Rowlingiensis versus Mandragora Officinarum - The Same Plant?

Gaze

Andrea Schutz: 'Strange how short-sighted being invisible can make you': Sight and Wisdom in the Harry Potter Series

Susan Reynolds: A Dangerous Orphan: The Mirror of Erised's Entrapment and the Panoptical Gaze Within the Neo-Victorian Potterverse

12.15 - 13.45Lunch
On your own
13.45 - 15.45 Analysing Harry

Petra Rehling: 'One Harry to bind them all' - The Utilisation of Harry Potter

Elizabeth Mann: Harry: A Boy Like No Other?

Suzanne M. LaFleur: 'A Fate Worse than Death': Dementors and Depression in J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter

Sonia M. Rosen: Harry Potter as Modern-Day Youth Activist: What Americans Can Learn from One Young Brit

Psychology

Angelea Panos: Harry Potter and Friends: Models for Psychological Resiliency

Phelim McIntyre: A Study in Magipsychology: A Psychological Profile of Heroes, Villains and Ghosts in the Harry Potter Books

Ethics and Evil

Eliana Ionoaia: 'Harry Potter World' Morality as a Paradigm for the Muggle World

Susan Howard: 'Slaves No More': The Harry Potter Series as Postcolonial Slave Narrative

Lauren Berman: 'Impaled on its own sword': The Self-destructiveness of evil in the Harry Potter Series

Alicia Willson-Metzger: 'The Life and Lies of Albus Dumbledore': The Ethics of Information Sharing and Concealment in the Harry Potter Novels

15.45 - 16.15Refreshment Break
Auditorium Foyer
16.15 - 18.15 Dumbledore

Andrew John Buzny: Did You Really Think Dumbledore was Straight?: Camping & Queering the Hogwarts Headmaster

Philippa (Pip) Downs: Dumbledore: Hero or Machiavellian?

Models

Akiko Sato: Harry Potter, an Unheroic Hero: The Image of the Moon and Other in Harry's Characterization

Joanna Lipińska: The Models of Strangeness in the Harry Potter Novels

Ronnie Carmeli: In the Names of the Fathers: The Paternal Role in Harry Potter

Storytelling

Orsetta Innocenti: Reading a Narrative Destiny: Prophecies Hidden in the Lines, and the Case of Harry Potter

Abel Rubén Hernández-Ulloa: The Nonmonotonic Narrative Structure in the Harry Potter Series

Linda Jardine: Speculation is Good for You: How the Harry Potter Series Encourages Theorising and its Effects on the Reader

19.00 - 19.30Pre-Feast Reception (Cash Bar and Silent Auction)
Old Kitchen Bar
19.30 - 21.00Feast
The Hall
21.00 - 23.00Post-Feast Gathering - Cash Bar
Old Kitchen Bar
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Sunday, 27 July 2008

8.00 - 9.00 Breakfast
(For those in residence)
The Buttery/Hall
TimeAuditoriumSummer Common RoomDaubeny Laboratory
9.15 - 10.45 Interpreting the Films

Aida Patient and Kori Street: Holocaust History Amongst the Hallows -- Understanding Evil in Harry Potter

Ming-Hsun Lin: Deciphering the Princess Archetype in Harry Potter

Religion Part 2

Jamie Paris and Susan Johnston: The Hallowing of Death: Sacrifice, Salvation, and the Death of the Superman in Harry Potter

Geo Athena Trevarthen, Ronald Hutton, andHans Andréa: Paganism and Christianity in Harry Potter

Disability

Kathryne Shearer: A Biblio-Dialogic Approach to the Understanding of Five Common Disability Stereotypes Using Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

10.45 - 11.15Refreshment Break
Auditorium Foyer
11.15 - 12.15 Death Eaters

Ragnhild Ljosland: Folklore Behind the Death Eaters

Leadership

Chris Mortimer: Harry Potter and the Leadership Challenge

Language

Deborah Bridge: The Splice of Life?

Diana Patterson: Translating Harry Potter from English to American

12.30 - 13.30Lunch / Farewell
Buttery/Hall


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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