Magic is Might 2012 – Timetable
Venue | Time | Event | Chair |
23 July 2012 | |||
C1 Corridor | 08:30-09:05 | Registration | -- |
Charles Parsons Lecture Hall | 09:10-09:30 | Opening Statements Dr. Eoin Devereux – Head of Department of Sociology, University of Limerick | |
Charles Parsons Lecture Hall | 09:30-11:00 | Panel A- Welcome to Diagon Alley Luigina Ciolfi (University of Limerick): The Making of Home Places in Harry Potter Jennifer Trieu (Trinity College Dublin): Cauldron Cakes, Pumpkin Pasties and Every Flavour Beans: Food and British National Identity in the Harry Potter Series M. Renee Benham (Wright State University): ‘There is No Good and Evil, Only Power and Those Too Weak to Seek It’: Voldemort verses Sauron in Popular Culture’ | Gráinne O’Brien |
C1 Corridor | 11:00-11:15 | Break | -- |
Charles Parsons Lecture Hall | 11:15-12:45 | Panel B – From House Elves to Teachers and Back Again Natalia Wieham (University of Cologne): Our Fellow Kreacher: The Portrayal of Non-Human Animals in Harry Potter as a Reflection on the Human-Animal Divide Agata Zarzycka (University of Wroclaw): “The Bravest Man I Ever Knew”: Severus Snape and the Gothic Trauma in the Harry Potter Series and Fan Fiction Berry Eggen (Eindhoven University of Technology) and Daan Eggen: Humdrum Magic: Design Explorations into the Magic of Everyday Life | Maureen Saraco |
Eden Restaurant | 12:45-13:45 | Lunch Break | -- |
BM015 Courtroom | 13:45-15:15 | The Trial | |
C1 Corridor | 15:15-15:30 | Break | -- |
BM015 Courtroom | 15:30-16:30 | Panel F Breaking Wizarding Law Kamillea Aghtan (University of Edinburgh): Anticipating Exceptionalism: Institutional Order and the State of Exception in Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix Lucy Andrew (Cardiff University): The Good, The Bad and the Malfoys: The Role of Free Will in the Creation of the Criminal Child in the Harry Potter series. | Michael O’ Rourke |
Evening | Conference Dinner at the Hunt Museum | ||
24 July 2012 | |||
Charles Parsons Lecture Hall | 09:00-10:30 | Panel G- The Wand Chooses the Wizard Gráinne O’Brien (University of Limerick): Why Queer’s Never Prosper in the Wizarding World: Phallocentricism, Heteronormativity and Wandlore in the Harry Potter Series. Alice Nuttall (Oxford Brooks University): Wand Privilege: Superiority and Inferiority in Wizarding Society Cathy Leogrande (Le Moyne College): From the Sorcerer’s Stone to the Magic Quill: Transmedia Storytelling and the Potterverse | Jennifer Trieu |
C1 Corridor | 10:30-10:45 | Break | -- |
Charles Parsons Lecture Hall | 10:45-11:45 | Panel H –The Most Powerful Magical Number Michael O’ Rourke (Independent Colleges, Dublin) and Karin Sellberg (University of Edinburgh): HoP: Horcrux Oriented Philosophy Breanna Mroczek (University of Alberta): Split Seven Ways: The Magic of Death in the Harry Potter Novels | Lucy Andrew |
C1 Corridor | 11:45-12:00 | Break | |
12:00-13:00 | Keynote Presentation Abbot Mark Patrick Hederman OSB: Harry Potter: Archetype of the Child as our Future in the 21st Century | Luigina Ciolfi | |
Eden Restaurant | 13:00-14:00 | Lunch Break | -- |
Charles Parsons Lecture Hall | 14:00-15:30 | Panel I – The Flaw in the Plan Sonja Loidl (University of Vienna): T(r)ends towards infinity Željka Flegar (University of Osijek): The Power of Mother: Archetype and Symbolism in the Harry Potter series Molly Brown (University of Pretoria): Harry Potter and the Unsettling Subalterns | Berry Eggen |
C1 Corridor | 15:30-15:45 | Break | -- |
Charles Parsons Lecture Hall | 15:45-16:45 | Panel J – What’s the deal with Pottermore? Terje Colbjørnse (University of Oslo): Harry Potter and the Chamber of Commerce: Pottermore.com Bethan Jones (University of Cardiff): Pottermore: Encouraging or Regulating Participatory Culture? | Alice Nuttall |
16:45-18:15 | Panel K –The Curse of He Who Must Not Be Named Vera Cuntz-Leng (University of Mainz): Six Times Trouble: Queering the DADA Teachers Maureen Saraco (Rutgers University): Tom Riddle, the Abject Child Emily Roach (Roehampton University): Sexualising Severus Snape: Queer Erotics and Slashing Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince | M. Renee Benham | |
Charles Parsons Lecture Hall | 18:15-18:30 | Final Thoughts and Conference Close |
