Seaport World Trade Center - Amphitheater

Sessions

Friday 11 October, 2019

Time Zone: (GMT-05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada)
10:15 AM
10:15 AM
How Do You LeakyCon?
1 hour, 10:15 AM EDT - 11:15 AM EDT

Seaport World Trade Center - Amphitheater

Meetup

Brian Acunis (Participant)

Lexi Whittemore (Participant)

Ally Haley (Participant)

Bethany McQuiston (Participant)

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...
11:30 AM
11:30 AM
Gryffindor Meetup
1 hour, 11:30 AM EDT - 12:30 PM EDT

Seaport World Trade Center - Amphitheater

Meetup

Megan Markle, Mischief Management (Participant)

Ally Haley (Participant)

12:45 PM
12:45 PM
Hufflepuff Meetup
1 hour, 12:45 PM EDT - 1:45 PM EDT

Seaport World Trade Center - Amphitheater

Meetup

Lizzie Keiper (Participant)

2:00 PM
2:00 PM
Inside the Age Line: Fans Over 30
1 hour, 2:00 PM EDT - 3:00 PM EDT

Seaport World Trade Center - Amphitheater

Meetup

Mardie Baldo (Participant)

Were you old enough to be a Hogwarts professor when Harry Potter came out? Are you more of a StarADULT than a StarKID? If you don't need Fre...
3:15 PM
3:15 PM
The Order of the Planners
1 hour, 3:15 PM EDT - 4:15 PM EDT

Seaport World Trade Center - Amphitheater

Workshop

Jackie Garrecht (Participant)

Archer Chattin (Participant)

This workshop is for functional, decorative, and memory planners to talk, share, swap washi, show off stickers, and bond over our shared love of in...
4:30 PM
4:30 PM
A Gryffindor's Guide to Surviving Burnout
1 hour, 4:30 PM EDT - 5:30 PM EDT

Seaport World Trade Center - Amphitheater

Panel

Kylie Madden, Mischief Management (Participant)

Jackson Bird, Sorted: Growing Up (Participant)

Charlotte Lawrence (Participant)

Tricia Hobbs (Participant)

Are people constantly telling you to pick your battles? Have you pushed yourself to exhaustion to prove a point? Do you find yourself yelling, “I W...

Saturday 12 October, 2019

Time Zone: (GMT-05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada)
11:30 AM
11:30 AM
Nowhere Safer than Hogwarts: Magical Security and its Faults
1 hour, 11:30 AM EDT - 12:30 PM EDT

Seaport World Trade Center - Amphitheater

Panel

Constance Gibbs, Black Girls Create (Participant)

Abby Ritter, Mischief Management (Participant)

Robyn Jordan, Black Girls Create (Participant)

It is often stated in the Harry Potter series that there’s no place safer than Hogwarts. Is it because Dumbledore is the greatest wizard of ...
12:45 PM
12:45 PM
Hagrid, Half-bloods, and Squibs: One-Drop Rule?
1 hour, 12:45 PM EDT - 1:45 PM EDT

Seaport World Trade Center - Amphitheater

Panel

Dr. Kishana Taylor Ph.D., University of California (Participant)

Delia Gallegos, Black Girls Create (Participant)

Porshéa Patterson-Hurst, The Harry Potter Alliance (Participant)

Jasmine Rose Schmitt, University of Texas at Austin (Participant)

As a fandom, we talk a lot about pureblood and wizard supremacy, but how often do we investigate what lies between the extremes? Using the portraya...
2:00 PM
2:00 PM
We Refuse to Discuss How We're Always Called Evil: A Slytherin Panel
1 hour, 2:00 PM EDT - 3:00 PM EDT

Seaport World Trade Center - Amphitheater

Panel

Leah Cornish, Mischief Management (Participant)

Shanyce Lora, Mischief Management (Participant)

Leave your misconceptions and your wrath over those misconceptions at the door. Join two very devoted, yet very different Slytherins, as they discu...
3:15 PM
3:15 PM
Speed Dating Fanfiction
1 hour, 3:15 PM EDT - 4:15 PM EDT

Seaport World Trade Center - Amphitheater

Panel

Olivia Dolphin, Wizards in Space Literary Magazine (Participant)

Hannah Hosking (Participant)

Proma Khosla, Mashable (Participant)

Neville/Giant Squid or McGonagall/Argus Filch? Come prepared with your wildest Harry Potter pairings, and we'll write fanfiction about their...
4:30 PM
4:30 PM
The Other Chosen One: A New Musical
1 hour 10 minutes, 4:30 PM EDT - 5:40 PM EDT

Seaport World Trade Center - Amphitheater

Performance

Shauna Carrick, Freelance (Participant)

Kathy Moore (Participant)

Richie Gagen (Participant)

Madeleine Koon (Participant)

Lauren Fairweather (Participant)

Ashley Hamel, Ashley Trix & the WZRDS (Participant)

Jay McDougall (Participant)

Maggie Brevig (Participant)

While Harry, Hermione, and Ron were in the countryside finding Horcruxes to take down You Know Who, what was happening back at Hogwarts? The Oth...

Sunday 13 October, 2019

Time Zone: (GMT-05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada)
10:15 AM
10:15 AM
Ethnic Communities in the Wizarding World
1 hour, 10:15 AM EDT - 11:15 AM EDT

Seaport World Trade Center - Amphitheater

Roundtable

Porshéa Patterson-Hurst, The Harry Potter Alliance (Moderator)

AJ Solomon, Mischief Management (Participant)

Proma Khosla, Mashable (Participant)

Robyn Jordan, Black Girls Create (Participant)

In this session, panelists representing multiple ethnic backgrounds discuss the (mis)/representation of their communities within Harry Potter
11:30 AM
11:30 AM
Trans and Non-Binary Representation in YA
1 hour, 11:30 AM EDT - 12:30 PM EDT

Seaport World Trade Center - Amphitheater

Panel

AJ Solomon, Mischief Management (Moderator)

Jackson Bird, Sorted: Growing Up (Participant)

Mason Deaver, I Wish You All The Best (Participant)

Kacen Callender, Hurricane Child (Participant)

As trans, non-binary, and gender non-conforming authors make in-roads in publishing, the conversation about representation is shifting rapidly. Wha...
12:45 PM
12:45 PM
Can We Do Magic on Shabbat?
1 hour, 12:45 PM EDT - 1:45 PM EDT

Seaport World Trade Center - Amphitheater

Panel

AJ Solomon, Mischief Management (Participant)

Kara Greenberg (Participant)

Paige Breisacher (Participant)

We know of at least one Jewish student at Hogwarts, but presumably Anthony Goldstein wasn’t the first or only Jewish wizard in all of the world, or...
2:00 PM
2:00 PM
Snatchers, Muggleborns, and Immigrants: A Conversation with Never Again Action
1 hour, 2:00 PM EDT - 3:00 PM EDT

Seaport World Trade Center - Amphitheater

Panel

Kayla Neumeyer (Participant)

Katie Bowers, The Harry Potter Alliance (Participant)

Sarah O'Conner (Participant)

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows is filled with chilling details on the Ministry's treatment of Muggleborns -- anti-Muggle propaganda, S...
3:15 PM
3:15 PM
History of Magic: Finding the Wizards in history
1 hour, 3:15 PM EDT - 4:15 PM EDT

Seaport World Trade Center - Amphitheater

Panel

Brian Acunis (Participant)

Jenae Williams (Participant)

Jessi Dickinson (Participant)

There are many things throughout history that historians can’t explain: little things that don’t add up and are brushed aside as a mystery. Wonderi...