Kay Bailey Hutchison Convention Center - Charms Room (A130/131)
Sessions
10:15 AM
10:15 AM
- Civil Rights and Segregation in Harry Potter Kay Bailey Hutchison Convention Center - Charms Room (A130/131)
- 10:15 AM CDT - 11:15 AM CDT | 1 hour
- Panel
11:30 AM
11:30 AM
- Our Favorite Headcanons Kay Bailey Hutchison Convention Center - Charms Room (A130/131)
- 11:30 AM CDT - 12:30 PM CDT | 1 hour
- Headcanons are our beliefs about what happened between the gaps in the Harry Potter story that can't be proved or disproved. (They're t...
- Discussion
12:45 PM
12:45 PM
- 30 Panels in 60 Minutes: Harry Potter Edition Kay Bailey Hutchison Convention Center - Charms Room (A130/131)
- 12:45 PM CDT - 1:45 PM CDT | 1 hour
- Panel
2:00 PM
2:00 PM
- APWBD: Albus Plot Device Wulfric Brian Dumbledore Kay Bailey Hutchison Convention Center - Charms Room (A130/131)
- 2:00 PM CDT - 3:00 PM CDT | 1 hour
- Calling Albus Dumbledore a plot device seems like sacrilege, but analyzing how his character functions actually reveals another level to JKR’s skil...
- Lecture
3:15 PM
3:15 PM
- From Page to Screen: A Conversation with Julie Murphy Kay Bailey Hutchison Convention Center - Charms Room (A130/131)
- 3:15 PM CDT - 4:15 PM CDT | 1 hour
- For years, your characters live only in your head. One day, they're standing right in front of you, embodied by actors and backed by an entire t...
- Panel
4:30 PM
4:30 PM
- Messrs Moony, Wormtail, Padfoot, and Prongs Kay Bailey Hutchison Convention Center - Charms Room (A130/131)
- 4:30 PM CDT - 5:30 PM CDT | 1 hour
- When you get us talking about the Marauders, we're usually unable to stop. We don't know yet exactly what we'll be talking about, but we know we're...
- Panel
10:15 AM
10:15 AM
- How Do You LeakyCon? Kay Bailey Hutchison Convention Center - Charms Room (A130/131)
- 10:15 AM CDT - 11:15 AM CDT | 1 hour
- Is this your first LeakyCon? Do you want to make sure you're getting the most out of your weekend? Come listen to a panel of veteran LeakyCon atten...
- Panel
11:30 AM
11:30 AM
- It’s Just Wizards Chess: How the Chess Match in Sorcerer’s Stone (Almost) Foretold the End of the Series Kay Bailey Hutchison Convention Center - Charms Room (A130/131)
- 11:30 AM CDT - 12:30 PM CDT | 1 hour
- A once popular fandom theory, the chess match in Sorcerer’s Stone was thought to be a blueprint for the endgame of Deathly Hallows. W...
- Lecture
12:45 PM
12:45 PM
- Deferred Acceptance: The Experience of Starting the Series as an Adult Kay Bailey Hutchison Convention Center - Charms Room (A130/131)
- 12:45 PM CDT - 1:45 PM CDT | 1 hour
- Mike Schubert was just a bit late to his train from Platform 9 ¾, as he didn’t start the series until age 24. He documented his thoughts publicly t...
- Lecture
2:00 PM
2:00 PM
- Living Among Muggles Kay Bailey Hutchison Convention Center - Charms Room (A130/131)
- 2:00 PM CDT - 3:00 PM CDT | 1 hour
- A discussion on the lives of witches and wizards residing in muggle villages and cities. Do they take on non-magical jobs? How do they keep the Sta...
- Panel
3:15 PM
3:15 PM
- Harry Potter is My Job Kay Bailey Hutchison Convention Center - Charms Room (A130/131)
- 3:15 PM CDT - 4:15 PM CDT | 1 hour
- Hear from fans who turned their passion for all things Potter into a career. Learn about their work life, how they integrate The Boy Who Liv...
- Panel
4:30 PM
4:30 PM
- Millennial Magic in Times of War and Peace Kay Bailey Hutchison Convention Center - Charms Room (A130/131)
- 4:30 PM CDT - 5:30 PM CDT | 1 hour
- The intersection of Harry Potter and young adulthood. Many fans of the Harry Potter series grew up with the characters and are now de...
- Panel
10:15 AM
10:15 AM
- Found Families Kay Bailey Hutchison Convention Center - Charms Room (A130/131)
- 10:15 AM CDT - 11:15 AM CDT | 1 hour
- Young adult literature, by definition, demonstrates a growing distance from—or even absence of—parental guidance while equally important relationsh...
- Panel
11:30 AM
11:30 AM
- Obscurials: Before, During... After? Kay Bailey Hutchison Convention Center - Charms Room (A130/131)
- 11:30 AM CDT - 12:30 PM CDT | 1 hour
- A round table discussion focusing on what we know and what we theorise concerning Obscurials. How traumatic does an experience need to be for an Ob...
- Roundtable
12:45 PM
12:45 PM
- Our Favorite Beasts and Where To Find Them (OC) Kay Bailey Hutchison Convention Center - Charms Room (A130/131)
- 12:45 PM CDT - 1:45 PM CDT | 1 hour
- From Norbert to Fluffy, Errol to Crookshanks, the original Harry Potter series gave us plenty of animals to fawn over.... and that's before ...
- Panel
2:00 PM
2:00 PM
- Is JK Rowling’s Social Media Presence Helping or Hurting the Fandom? Kay Bailey Hutchison Convention Center - Charms Room (A130/131)
- 2:00 PM CDT - 3:00 PM CDT | 1 hour
- Since the door closed on jkrowling.com, Jo has taken to Twitter to update fans on the latest news from the Wizarding World. From the casting of Fan...
- Panel
3:15 PM
3:15 PM
- Canon Is Like An Onion. It Has Layers. Kay Bailey Hutchison Convention Center - Charms Room (A130/131)
- 3:15 PM CDT - 4:15 PM CDT | 1 hour
- A roundtable discussion of what it means for something to be Canon in the wizarding world, and how experiencing only certain portions of it (solely...
- Roundtable
4:30 PM
4:30 PM
- Parental Figures in Harry Potter Kay Bailey Hutchison Convention Center - Charms Room (A130/131)
- 4:30 PM CDT - 5:30 PM CDT | 1 hour
- Though he lost his parents early on, The Boy Who Lived didn't go through his life without guidance. We'll be taking a deeper look into the parental...
- Panel