

|
Conference Provisional Program
Conference Program Sessions are located in Humanities Lecture Theatre North 1
|
Thursday 15 April |
Courtyard |
Theatre North 1 |
|

|
9.00 – 9.30am |
registration |
|
|
|
9.30 – 11.00am |
|
welcome and keynote speaker
|
University welcome
Housekeeping: Amanda Muller
Keynote introduction & chair: Rick Hosking
Keynote Speaker: Karen Vered
|
|
11.00 – 11.20am |
morning tea |
|
|

|
11.20 – 1.00pm |
|
3 x 20 minute papers + question time |
Chair: Jeri Kroll
Theme: School Culture in Harry Potter
Speaker 1: Chad Habel, “The Hogwarts Adventure: A Genre Study”
Speaker 2: Lindley Water Smith, “High Spirits and Fair Play: Hogwarts and the English School Story”
Speaker 3: Kate Deller-Evans & Peter Adams, “ The Satisfactions of Harry Potter ”
Ends with Owl Flight (Jodie Ible from Animal Capers) |
|
1.00 – 2.00pm |
lunch |
|
Animals in courtyard during lunch |

|
2.00 – 3.30pm |
|
3 x 20 minute papers + question time |
Chair: Graham Tulloch
Theme: Literary Issues
Speaker 1: Kerrie Le Lievre, “ "Neither can live while the other survives?" Integrating fantasy genres in the Harry Potter series”
Speaker 2: Robert Phiddian, “Rowling, Austen and Irony”
Speaker 3: Sarah Cox, “What Sort of Story is Harry Potter?: In Search of Loyal Translations, Retellings and Revisions” |
|
3.30 – 4.00pm |
afternoon tea |
|
|

|
4.00 – 5.30pm |
|
3 x 20 minute papers + question time |
Chair: Chad Habel
Theme: Ghosts in the Toilet and Elves in the Kitchen
Speaker 1: Di Smith, “Harry Potter and the Gastronomy of Hogwarts”
Speaker 2: Alice Mills, “Harry Potter and the Terrors of the Toilet”
Speaker 3: Anton Kozlovic, “ Some Hogwash about Hogwarts: A Religion Studies Perspective on the Harry Potter Phenomenon” |
|
Friday 16 April |
Courtyard |
Theatre North 1 |
|
|
|
|
|
|

|
9.00 – 11.00am |
|
3 x 20 minute papers + question time |
Chair: Bec Pannell
Theme: Harry Potter in the Classroom
Speaker 1: Anna Beth McCormack, “Harry Potter: the new Prozac”
Speaker 2: Jilaine Johnson, “To Quidditch or not to Quidditch?: challenging undergraduate student teachers to look below the surface of the Harry Potter series”
Speaker 3: Wilhelmina Hotchkiss, “Seeing Past the Mundane: A Pedagogical Approach to Stylistic Arguments in Harry Potter Criticism” |
|
11.00 – 11.30am |
morning tea |
|
|

|
11.30 – 1.00pm |
|
3 x 20 minute papers + question time |
Chair: Kate Deller-Evans
Theme: Rowling's Readership
Speaker 1: Jo Coward, “Kiddult and Harry Potter”
Speaker 2: Natasha Giardina, “Harry's hierarchies: Ideology and power relations in the Harry Potter series”
Speaker 3: Bec Pannell, “ Magic, miracles and muggles: JK Rowling ("antichrist") versus CS Lewis ("Christian") ” |
|
1.00 – 2.00pm |
lunch |
|
|

|
2.00 – 3.30pm |
|
Children's Panel |
Chair: Karen Vered
“Reading, Raiding and Re-making: Youth Fan Practices with Harry Potter”
Tanami Muller, Marbury School
Matilda Handsley-Davis, Goodwood Primary
Sean Conneely, Pulteney Grammar School
Anjali Habel-Orrell, Flinders University |
|
3.30 – 4.00pm |
afternoon tea |
|
|

|
4.00 – 5.30pm |
|
3 x 20 minute papers + question time |
Chair: Rick Hosking
Theme: Witches and Spiders and Snakes, Oh My!
Speaker 1: Heavenly Littleton “T he Re-categorizing of Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets : Moving Harry to the Top of the Horror Blockbusters”
Speaker 2: Jacqueline Howard “J.K.Rowling's Gothic turn: Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix ”
Speaker 3: Sally Nimon, “Scared Potter? The Sounds of Power in Harry Potter” |
|
5.30 |
|
close |
|
|
7 for 7.30pm |
conference dinner |
|
|
|
|
|