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* Legal * Education & Library Science * Academic *
* Muggle Studies * Fandom Culture * Keynote Luncheons *

Legal

Will Cease and Desist Cease to Exist? The Effects of Eldred v. Ashcroft on Harry Potter Fans
Sarah Kelman, University of Georgia Law School
Justice in the Wizarding World
Susan Hall, Cobbetts Solicitors (United Kingdom)
Censorship, Book Banning, and the First Amendment
Judith Krug, Director, American Library Association Office of Intellectual Freedom
Eliza Dresang, Florida State University
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban: A Case Against the Death Penalty
Joy Morgenstern
Parseltongue for Non-Native Speakers: A Legal Tutorial for Fanfiction Writers, Fan Artists and Web Hosters
Amy Tenbrink, Oppenheimer, Wolff & Donnelly
Meredith McCardle, Boston College Law School
Rebecca Tushnet, Professor, New York University Law School
Heidi Tandy, Esq.
Tanya Grotter: A Harry-Potter Knock-off or Parody?
Mark Hooker, Indiana University, Russian and Eastern Europe Institute

Education & Library Science (top of page)

Perceptions of Childhood and Adult-Child Relations in HP
Liz O'Reilly
Harry Potter: Are They Children's Books?
Carlisle Elizabeth Kraft
Introducing Harry Potter to the Retirement Community
Charlotte Rabbitt
The Geography of Harry Potter
Kimberly McCutcheon
Erin Jaudon
Harry Potter Library Events Workshop
Nancy Carstensen
Pottermania Brag and Swap Meet
Mary Shearer
Education at Hogwarts: A Closer Look
Peter Gow
Online Writing Workshops: Fanfiction as a Springboard into Improving Technique & Original Creative Writing
Catherine Schaff-Stump
Examining Writing Style: Learning from J.K. Rowling
Kimberly Lowe
Ophelia's Quill Pen: How Writing Fanfiction Empowers Women and Girls
Catherine Danielson


Academic (top of page)

* Mythology and Magical Systems * Gender *
* Moral Development-Philosophy and Religious Studies *



Mythology and Magical Systems? (top of page) (back to Academic)

Harry Potter: A Universal Hero?
Michele Fry
Lord Voldemort's Gift for Spreading Discord & Enmity: The Rise of Evil in Harry Potter
Richard C. Burke, Lynchburg College
Within the Pantheon: Harry Potter and the Epic Question
Mary Pharr, Florida Southern College
The Great Tradition and Harry Potter
Paige Byam, Northern Kentucky University
The Heroic Quest: Harry Potter & Myth
Jeff Morgan, Lynn University
The Heroic Journey and Harry Potter
Antoinette Winstead, Our Lady of the Lake University
The Hero's Progress: Harry Potter's Discovery of Identity in JK Rowling's Hierarchical World
Alice Trupe, Bridgewater College
Harry Potter vs. Other Fantasy Tales
Andrew Seeger
Harry Potter as Popular Culture Icon
Anne Frances Sangil, De La Salle University (Manila)
Panel: Harry Potter & Popular Culture: From the Italian Renaissance to Star Wars
James Inman
E. Stone Shiflet
Kathleen Robinson
University of South Florida
The Danger of Dynamics: Transport in the Harry Potter Series
Steven J. Gores, Northern Kentucky University
The Historical Occult in the World of Harry Potter
Kiri Morgan
Technology Meets Magic
Diana Patterson, Mount Royal College
A Featured presentation by:
Roger Highfield, Science Editor, London, Daily Telegraph
Author, The Science of Harry Potter: How Magic Really Works

Gender (top of page) (back to Academic)

Hermione Granger and Issues of Gender in the Harry Potter Books and Films
Eliza Dresang, Florida State University
Emeric Switch on Gender: Harry and Hermione's Transgendered Heroism
Emily Katherine Anderson, Susquehanna University
It's Not Easy Being Hermione: Harry Potter and the Paradox of Girl Power
Meghan Mercier, George Washington University
Greenhouses are for Girls, Beasts are for Boys?: Gender Characterization in Harry Potter
Sarah Goff, Baruch College (CUNY)
Celluloid Polyjuice: The Filmic Transfiguration of Harry Potter into Infallible Hero
Suzanne Scott, University of Southern California
HP's Exciting Life: Structuralist Potentials for the Postmodern, Posthuman Adolescent Boy
Jill Reading
Deconstructing Harry: Identifying with Whiteness in Harry Potter
Laurie Barth Walczak , University of Wisconsin
Imperial Harry: Race, J.K. Rowling, and the Postcolonial Context
Ebony Thomas, Wayne State University
"But That's the Title on the Manifesto!" Labor and Class Concerns in Harry Potter
Wendy Stengel, Georgetown University
When Harry Met Jane: The Legacy of Austen in Rowling's Harry Potter
Karin Westman, Kansas State University
S.P.E.W./spew Or Hermione Spews A Badge
Bharati Kasibhatla, University of Florida
Moral Development-Philosophy and Religious Studies (top of page) (back to Academic)

A featured presentation by:
John Granger - Alchemy & Doppelgangers
Author of The Hidden Key to Harry Potter
Panel: Harry Potter: Witchcraft? Pagan Perspectives
Lee Hillman, Co-moderator
John Walton, Co-moderator
Panel: Harry Potter: Can Any Wisdom Come From Wizardry?
David Isaacs, Dawnellen Jacobs and Helen Huntley (California Baptist University)
Cheri Langdell, Biola University
Anita Helmbold, Taylor University College
Emily Bytheway, Brigham Young University
The Seven Deadly Sins/Seven Heavenly Virtues: Moral Development in Harry Potter
Peg Kerr, Author of Emerald House Rising and The Wild Swans
Jewish Perspectives On Harry Potter
Amy Miller
A featured presentation by:
Connie Neal, Author of
What's a Christian To Do With Harry Potter
and The Gospel According To Harry Potter

Muggle Studies (top of page)
Where Fandom Culture and Academia Intersect

Panel: Canon, Interpretation and the Alternate Universe: Navigating the Fandom Safely
Debra Duncan*
Steve Vander Ark
Peg Kerr
Barbara Purdom
A Featured presentation by:
Philip Nel, Kansas State University
What Makes a Professor Behave like Snape?: Literature, Marketing and the Critical Backlash against Harry Potter
Author of J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter Novels: A Reader's Guide
(Continuum Contemporaries series)
Language and Fictional Reality: How Words Build the Potterverse
Bonnie May
Panel: Publishing on Potter: Dodging the Bludgers
Lana A. Whited
Philip Nel
Giselle Anatole
Elizabeth Schafer
Connie Neal
John Granger
Katherine Grimes*


Fandom Culture (top of page)


Special Thursday Night Kick-off General Session:
Moony, Wormtail, Padfoot, and Prongs

Panel: Once Upon a Time-Turner: A History of the Harry Potter Fandom
Mai Pucik, Moderator
Panel: The Importance of Being Ron
Catherine Tosenberger, Moderator
Panel: Coming out of the Cupboard: Slash in Harry Potter Fandom
John Walton, Moderator
Panel: Resolved--Can Draco Malfoy Be Redeemed?
Aja Romano, Moderator
Panel: Slytherins, Smoke and Shadows: The Secret Life of Severus Snape
Madeline Klink, Moderator
Panel: Sail on, Good Ship: Shipping Debate
-Moderator - Sarah Goff
Panel: The Wizarding World: Past, Present and Future
Ebony Thomas, Moderator
Panel: Other Voices, Other Common Rooms
Meghan Mercier, Moderator
Keeping it in the Family: The Weasleys, the Malfoys and Canon and its Dis(mal)contents
Catherine Tosenberger
Fanwords: The Evolution of Fandom Vernacular in the Harry Potter Fandom
Mai Pucik
Affinity & Lexical Choice in the Fan Community
Evelyn Browne
Don't Tell the Grownups: Subversion in Harry Potter Text and Fandom
Catherine Tosenberger
Prisoner of Azkaban Redux: Harry Potter and the Dance with Depression
Jessica Daggett

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