Harry Potter Students’ Conference
4th-5th April 2017, Festsaal (Bonn University)
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Marion Gymnich (Bonn): ‘Happy Birthday, Harry!’ – The Harry Potter Series
between Scholarship and Fandom
Max Stottrop (Bonn): “An evil spirit possessing the soul of a horse and a griffon” –
The Hippogriff in Harry Potter as a Prime Example for Intertextuality
Laura Hartmann (Bonn): The Black Dog and the Boggart: Fantastic Beasts in Joanne
K. Rowling’s Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban and Where to Find Them in
Mythology and Traditional Folklore
Coffee Break
Miriam Caspers (Bonn): ‘I Solemnly Swear that they are up to no Good’: From
Queerbaiting in Harry Potter to Representations of Queerness in Benjamin Alire
Sáenz’s Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe
Marthe-Siobhán Hecke (Bonn): Queerbaiting in the Harry Potter Series and in The
Cursed Child?
Lunch
Vera Bub (Bonn): Harry Potter and Religion
Maria Zielenbach (Köln): “The ones who love us never really leave us” – Death as a
Porous State in the Harry Potter Books
Coffee Break
Carsten Kullmann (Leipzig): Of Muggles and Men: Identifying Racism in the Harry
Potter Series
Aleksandra Szczodrowski (Bonn): Native Americans in J.K. Rowling’s “A History of
Magic in North America”
Coffee Break
Frederike Kelzenberg (Bonn): Liminal Spaces in Harry Potter – Diagon Alley and
Godric’s Hollow
Christina Gerwing (Bonn): The Literary Style of J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter
Svenja Renzel (Bonn): Of Hogwarts and Housewives: Victorian Values in J.K.
Rowling’s Harry Potter Series
Judith Schreier (Leipzig): Harry Potter and the Idealization of Heteronormative
Marriage
Coffee Break
Franziska Göbel (Bonn): The Dark Arts: Violence, Incest and Rape in Harry Potter
Fan Fictions
Bettina Burger (Bonn): The Fan Creation of Sirius Black
Lunch
Franziska Becker (Bonn): J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter – A Revival of the Arthurian
Legend?
Naemi Winter (Bonn): The Reception and Function of History in the World of Harry
Potter
Coffee Break
Michèle Ciba (Bonn): Harry Potter in a Post-9/11 World – Themes of Conspiracy,
Persecution and Terror
Anne Mahler (Leipzig): Haunted by Voldemort or Suffering from PTSD: Analysing
Harry Potter’s Psychological Struggles in Adulthood
Coffee Break
Sarah Hofmann (Bonn): “Can someone just explain what that skull thing was?” – The
Workings of Capital in the Wizarding World
Anne Schneider (Bonn): Magical Criminal Law in the Harry Potter Series
The panels will be chaired by Hanne Birk (Bonn) and Denise Burkhard (Bonn)