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Conference Provisional Program

Conference Program Sessions are located in Humanities Lecture Theatre North 1

 

Thursday 15 April

Courtyard

Theatre North 1

 

Text Box: SESSION 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

 

 

Text Box: SESSION 2

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

Text Box: SESSION 3

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

 

 

Text Box: SESSION 4

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

 

 

 

 

 

 

Text Box: SESSION 5

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

 

 

Text Box: SESSION 6

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

 

 

Text Box: SESSION 7

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

 

 

Text Box: SESSION 8

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

 

 

 

 


 

 

 

 

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