nimbus 2003: a harry potter symposium

Please Note:
With the exception of the General Session on The Marauders and the luncheons the schedule for programming is still being finalized. Please check back in a few weeks for the finalized schedule.

Legal

Will Cease and Desist Cease to Exist? The Effects of Eldred v. Ashcroft on Harry Potter Fansites (abstract)

Sarah Kelman, University of Georgia Law School

Justice in the Wizarding World (abstract)

Susan Hall, Cobbetts Solicitors (United Kingdom)

Censorship, Book Banning, and the First Amendment (abstract)

Judith Krug, Director, American Library Association Office of Intellectual Freedom
Eliza Dresang, Florida State University
Amy Tenbrink, Oppenheimer, Wolff & Donnelley

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban: A Case Against the Death Penalty (abstract)

Joy Morgenstern

Parseltongue for Non-Native Speakers: A Legal Tutorial for Fanfiction Writers, Fan Artists and Website Hosters (abstract)

Amy Tenbrink, Oppenheimer, Wolff & Donnelly
Meredith McCardle, Boston University Law School
Rebecca Tushnet, Professor, New York University Law School
Heidi Tandy, Esq.

Tanya Grotter: A Harry-Potter Knock-off or Parody? (abstract)

Mark Hooker, Indiana University, Russian and Eastern Europe Institute

Education & Library Science (top of page)

Perceptions of Childhood and Adult-Child Relations in HP (abstract)

Liz O'Reilly

Harry Potter: Are They Children's Books? (abstract)

Carlisle Elizabeth Kraft
Evelyn Browne
Mai Pucik

The Geography of Harry Potter (abstract)

Penny Linsenmayer
Steve Vander Ark

Harry Potter Library Events Workshop (abstract)

Nancy Carstensen

Pottermania Brag and Swap Meet (abstract)

Mary Shearer

Education at Hogwarts: A Closer Look (abstract)

Peter Gow
Proxy presenter: Linda McCabe

Online Writing Workshops: Fanfiction as a Springboard into Improving Technique & Original Creative Writing (abstract)

Catherine Schaff-Stump

Examining Writing Style: Learning from J.K. Rowling's Writing Style (abstract)

Kimberly Lowe

Ophelia's Quill Pen: How Writing Fanfiction Empowers Women and Girls (abstract)

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? (abstract)

Michele Fry

Lord Voldemort's Gift for Spreading Discord & Enmity: The Rise of Evil in Harry Potter (abstract)

Richard C. Burke, Lynchburg College

Platform 9 3/4 and Sundry Barriers: Ontological Displacements in the HP Series. (abstract)

Dr. Sudha Shastri
Proxy presenter: Sidharth Jaggi

Within the Pantheon: Harry Potter and the Epic Question (abstract)

Mary Pharr, Florida Southern College

The Great Tradition and Harry Potter (abstract)

Paige Byam, Northern Kentucky University

The Heroic Quest: Harry Potter & Myth (abstract)

Jeff Morgan, Lynn University

The Heroic Journey and Harry Potter (abstract)

Antoinette Winstead, Our Lady of the Lake University

The Hero's Progress: Harry Potter's Discovery of Identity in JK Rowling's Hierarchical World (abstract)

Alice Trupe, Bridgewater College

Harry Potter vs. Other Fantasy Tales (abstract)

Andrew Seeger

The Pleasure & the Pain of the Scar: Harry Potter as a Popular Culture Icon (abstract)

Anne Frances Sangil, De La Salle University (Manila)

Panel: Harry Potter & Popular Culture: From the Italian Renaissance to Star Wars (abstract)

James Inman
E. Stone Shiflet
Kathleen Robinson
University of South Florida

The Danger of Dynamics: Transport in the Harry Potter Series (abstract)

Steven J. Gores, Northern Kentucky University

The Historical Occult in the World of Harry Potter (abstract)

Kiri Morgan

Technology Meets Magic (abstract)

Diana Patterson, Mount Royal College

Narratorial Control: Harry Potter Joins the Three Investigators (abstract)

Dr. Ernelle Fife

A Featured Presentation:
The Science of Harry Potter: How Magic Really Works. (abstract)

Roger Highfield, Science Editor, London, Daily Telegraph
Author, The Science of Harry Potter: How Magic Really Works

Gender, Identity, Race and Class (top of page) (back to Academic)

Hermione Granger and Issues of Gender in the Harry Potter Books and Films (abstract)

Eliza Dresang, Florida State University

Emeric Switch on Gender: Harry and Hermione's Transgendered Heroism (abstract)

Emily Katherine Anderson, Susquehanna University

It's Not Easy Being Hermione: Harry Potter and the Paradox of Girl Power (abstract)

Meghan Mercier, George Washington University

Greenhouses are for Girls, Beasts are for Boys?: Gender Characterization in Harry Potter (abstract)

Sarah Goff, Baruch College (CUNY)

Celluloid Polyjuice: The Filmic Transfiguration of Harry Potter into Infallible Hero (abstract)

Suzanne Scott, University of Southern California

Sexuality, Protest, Elves and White Womanhood: Hermione and S.P.E.W. (abstract)

Laurie Barth Walczak, University of Wisconsin

Imperial Harry: Race, J.K. Rowling, and the Postcolonial Context (abstract)

Ebony Thomas, Wayne State University

"But That's the Title on the Manifesto!" Labor and Class Concerns in Harry Potter (abstract)

Wendy Stengel, Georgetown University

When Harry Met Jane: The Legacy of Austen in Rowling's Harry Potter (abstract)

Karin Westman, Kansas State University

S.P.E.W./spew Or Hermione Spews A Badge (abstract)

Bharati Kasibhatla, University of Florida

Strangers in a Strange Land: How the Muggle-born are a Powerful Force for Social Change (abstract)

Sarah Marie Parker-Allen
Proxy presenter: Sarah Goff

Moral Development-Philosophy and Religious Studies (top of page) (back to Academic)

A Featured Presentation:
Alchemy, Doppelgangers and the Irony of Religious Objections to Harry Potter (abstract)

John Granger - Alchemy, Doppelgangers and the Irony of Religious Objections to Harry Potter
Author of The Hidden Key to Harry Potter

Panel: Harry Potter: Witchcraft? Pagan Perspectives (abstract)

Lee Hillman, Co-moderator
John Walton, Co-moderator
Amy Vezza

Panel: Harry Potter: Can Any Wisdom Come From Wizardry? (abstract)

David Isaacs, Dawnellen Jacobs and Helen Huntley (California Baptist University)
Anita Helmbold, Taylor University College
Emily Bytheway, Brigham Young University

The Seven Deadly Sins/Seven Heavenly Virtues: Moral Development in Harry Potter (abstract)

Peg Kerr, Author of Emerald House Rising and The Wild Swans

Jewish Perspectives On Harry Potter (abstract)

Amy Miller, Cantor

A Featured Presentation:
The Gospel According to Harry Potter, and Other Good News for Harry Potter Fans (abstract)

Connie Neal, Author of
What's a Christian To Do With Harry Potter
and The Gospel According To Harry Potter

Imagination at Work: Harry Potter and Stoic Virtue (abstract)

Dr. Edmund M. Kern

Talking about Harry: The Fairy Tale and Building Moral Character (abstract)

Gina Burkart

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

Panel: Canon, Interpretation and the Alternate Universe: Navigating the Fandom Safely (abstract)

Debra Duncan*
Steve Vander Ark
Peg Kerr
Barbara Purdom

A Featured Presentation:
What Makes a Professor Behave like Snape?: Literature, Marketing and the Critical Backlash against Harry Potter (abstract)

Philip Nel, Kansas State University
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 (abstract)

Bonnie May

Panel: Publishing on Potter: Dodging the Bludgers (abstract)

Lana A. Whited
Philip Nel
Giselle Anatol
Edmund Kern
Connie Neal
John Granger
Katherine Grimes*

Fandom Culture (top of page)

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

Panel: Once Upon a Time-Turner: A History of the Harry Potter Fandom (abstract)

Mai Pucik, Moderator

Panel: The Importance of Being Ron (abstract)

Catherine Tosenberger, Moderator

Panel: Coming out of the Cupboard: Slash in Harry Potter Fandom (abstract)

John Walton, Moderator
Bridget Roussell Cowlishaw

Panel: Resolved--Can Draco Malfoy Be Redeemed? (abstract)

Aja Romano, Moderator

Panel: Slytherins, Smoke and Shadows: The Secret Life of Severus Snape (abstract)

Madeline Klink, Moderator

Panel: Sail on, Good Ship: Shipping Debate (abstract)

Sarah Goff, Moderator

Panel: The Wizarding World: Past, Present and Future (abstract)

Ebony Thomas, Moderator

Other Voices, Other Common Rooms (abstract)

Meghan Mercier

Keeping it in the Family: The Weasleys, the Malfoys and Canon and its Dis(mal)contents (abstract)

Catherine Tosenberger

Fanwords: The Evolution of Vernacular in the Harry Potter Fandom (abstract)

Mai Pucik

Affinity & Lexical Choice in the Fan Community (abstract)

Evelyn Browne

Don't Tell the Grownups: Subversion in Harry Potter Text and Fandom (abstract)

Catherine Tosenberger

Cloaks and Cauldrons: An Anti-Stereotypical Analysis of Wizarding Fashion (abstract)

Mary LeGrow

Featured Luncheons (top of page)

Keynote Luncheon Friday, July 18, 2003
Harassing Harry: The "Demonizing" of the Harry Potter Series (abstract):

Judith Krug, Director, Office of Intellectual Freedom, American Library Association.

Featured Luncheon Saturday, July 19, 2003
Creating Digital Costumes and Environments for Feature Films (abstract):

Ari Rapkin, Computer Graphics Software Engineer from Industrial Light and Magic. Ms. Rapkin has been with ILM since 1998, working on ILM�s sequences in films such as Jurassic Park III, Star Wars: Episode II �Attack of the Clones,� and A.I. Artificial Intelligence. She is currently working on the cloth simulation system for use in several upcoming films including The Hulk, Van Helsing, and Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban. Her talk will offer us some insights into the mysteries and secrets of film enhancement through computer animation.

Seating at the luncheons is limited, so add it to your registration right away!