Boston Park Plaza - Stuart, 4th Floor
Sessions
9:30 AM
9:30 AM
- The Deathly Hallows is the New Yin Yang: A Symbol of Gender Balance In The Wizarding World Boston Park Plaza - Stuart, 4th Floor
- 9:30 AM EDT - 10:30 AM EDT | 1 hour
- There are many parallels between the classic Yin Yang symbol and the sign of the Deathly Hallows. Both can be viewed as graphic representations of ...
10:30 AM
10:30 AM
- Filk Workshop Boston Park Plaza - Stuart, 4th Floor
- 10:30 AM EDT - 11:30 AM EDT | 1 hour
- Join the co-creators of SwishAndFilk.com, Ann, Nina and MJ, as they explain the mysteries of the filk-writing and recording process! Audience parti...
2:00 PM
2:00 PM
- Fawkes as a Symbol of Faith and Resurrection Boston Park Plaza - Stuart, 4th Floor
- 2:00 PM EDT - 3:00 PM EDT | 1 hour
- Jo Rowling knew exactly what she was doing when she invented Fawkes the Phoenix. She cleverly uses the Egyptian and Christian cultural history of a...
3:30 PM
3:30 PM
- Demonization of Wealth, Power and Prestige in the Wizarding World Boston Park Plaza - Stuart, 4th Floor
- 3:30 PM EDT - 4:30 PM EDT | 1 hour
- Can't stop talking about Severus? Want to spend more time dissecting what makes your favorite good guys and the greatest bad guys tick? How about o...
10:00 AM
10:00 AM
- Dissecting the Distortion: What Mature Readers Bring to the (Library) Table Boston Park Plaza - Stuart, 4th Floor
- 10:00 AM EDT - 11:00 AM EDT | 1 hour
- As readers, we have traveled through the Harry Potter series via the point of view of an eleven (+) year old. Given that anyone who has been (or wh...
11:00 AM
11:00 AM
- Unique Inventions of the Wizarding World Boston Park Plaza - Stuart, 4th Floor
- 11:00 AM EDT - 12:00 PM EDT | 1 hour
- There are many references throughout the canon of unusually brilliant wizarding inventions like time-turners, sneakoscopes and spell-checking ...
2:00 PM
2:00 PM
- Career Advice: Re-Imagining the School Story Boston Park Plaza - Stuart, 4th Floor
- 2:00 PM EDT - 3:30 PM EDT | 1 hour 30 minutes
- What kind of school story does Rowling write? In considering the Harry Potter series within this genre, we need to move beyond conventional represe...
2:30 PM
2:30 PM
- Snape Rehabilitation Boston Park Plaza - Stuart, 4th Floor
- 2:30 PM EDT - 3:30 PM EDT | 1 hour
- Snapeaholics Anonymous. Are you Snape-addicted? Do you know someone who is? Dr. Cynthia Cynycal is here to help!Dr. Cynycal is a clinical p...
3:30 PM
3:30 PM
- Literary Value in the HP Series Boston Park Plaza - Stuart, 4th Floor
- 3:30 PM EDT - 4:30 PM EDT | 1 hour
- Harry Potter had a vital role in prompting youth, as well as every age group to pick up a book and read! POpular literature changed overnight with ...