Chestnut Hill College Harry Potter Academic Conference

04/10/2026

Don't panic, but there's only one day left to submit an abstract for the 15th annual Harry Potter Academic Conference! Run, don't walk, to the submission portal! https://harrypotterconference.com/submit/

03/30/2026

Still deciding whether to submit a paper or not sure where to start? Potterversity did an entire episode about our call for papers. Listen and get excited about October! Remember, the deadline for submissions is April 10! https://harrypotterconference.com/

Podcast Episode · Potterversity: A Potter Studies Podcast · March 30 · 47m

02/22/2026

Stuck inside during a blizzard? Pop the kettle on and work on your proposal for the 15th annual Harry Potter Academic Conference!

Accepting submissions through April 10: https://harrypotterconference.com/submit

02/01/2026

Quills at the ready! 🪶 We are pleased to present the call for papers for the 15th annual Harry Potter Academic Conference, taking place in person at Chestnut Hill College in Philadelphia, PA, on October 23 and 24, 2026. The submission deadline is April 10.

Learn more and submit: https://harrypotterconference.com/submit

12/24/2025

We made a list and checked it twice, and we can now confirm that all of this year's presentations are available to watch on our YouTube channel, just in time for Christmas! Wishing everyone a happy holiday season filled with magic. ✨

✊ Maria Matsakis | Resist and Persist: Lessons from Harry Potter in the Age of Trump
🖼️ Lena Henke | Magical Portraits as Wizarding AI
👋 Patrick McCauley | Poignant Nostalgia for My Abandoned Faith: Leaving Some Former Interpretations of HP Behind
🚉 Sarah Borden Sharkey | Undoing of the Fall?: Reading “King’s Cross” in Relation to Genesis 3
🪦 David Martin | The Two Graveyard Scenes: Similarities, Differences, and Why There Is a Kissing Gate
™️ Ethan Milne | Fan Fiction: Copyright Threat or Brand Opportunity?
🃏 Mona Morsy | Into the Floo: Rediscovering the Harry Potter Trading Card Game
📚 Ian McLaughlin | Harry Potter and the Failings of Age: Neutrality, Hospitality, and the Librarian’s Role
📖 Mitchell Parks | Marcus Plautus Molesworthus: Latin and the School Story Tradition at Hogwarts
🌿 Ped Daneshgar | Herbology: Fact vs. Fiction

Mitchell H. Parks Presents: Marcus Plautus Molesworthus:Latin and the School Story Tradition at HogwartsHarry Potter Academic Conference 2025AbstractFor a qu...

12/18/2025

Hanukkah is here and Christmas came early! Our gift to you - 10 more videos of this year's presentations! Speakers examined Harry Potter in relation to Shakespeare, manga, classic American novels, and much more. Watch now on our YouTube channel.

🧑‍🏫 Lily Corwin | Dark Times: Teaching Harry Potter During Trump’s First 100 Days
🪞 Jordan Ostrum | Mirror of Erasure: Reflecting (on) the Dangerous Desires of J.K. Rowling and Dolores Jane Umbridge
💪 Hailey Reed | Harry Potter and the Process of Individuation: An Archetypal Analysis of the “Orphan” Who Lived
🪶 Alexis Blatcher and Melanie Lee | To Kill a Muggle-Bird: Destructive Pride in “The House of Gaunt”
🥩 Mario Valori | Harry Potter with Added Protein: Mashle and the Magic of Muscles
🍛 Jane Evangelin Shruthy P | Rituals of Control: Foucault, Food, and Discipline at Hogwarts
✨ Kartiki Pravin Sawane | Blibbering Humdinger and Upelkuchen: A Study of the Assertive, Powerful Yield of Muchness in Luna Lovegood and Alice Kingsleigh Against Conventionalized “Sanity”
⚡️ Ria Bera | “Differences of Habit and Language”: Reflection of Plato and Tagore’s Pedagogical Beliefs in Harry Potter
🇷🇺 Ekaterina Semenova | The Magical Art of Dubbing the Potterverse (Slavic Language Edition)
🦹 Kibria Nasir | Villainous Ambitions: Voldemort, Richard III, and the Shakespearean Tragic Tradition

Mario Valori Presents: Harry Potter with Added Protein: Mashle and the Magic of MusclesHarry Potter Academic Conference 2025AbstractThe Harry Potter phenomen...

12/10/2025

Another batch of this year's talks has just dropped on our YouTube channel! We've got journalism, the justice system, and much more about the wizarding world and the fandom. Check them out:

📰 Letje Malle | They Who Must Be Named: Actors of Press Freedom in the Magical and Muggle World
⛓️ Marjolaine Martin | Prisons in the Wizarding World: Symptoms of Failing Democracy
🏳️‍🌈 Katherine Davis-Wright | Q***r Reparations Through Fan Fiction: How Wolfstar Heals Wounds Inflicted by Heteronormativity
🦉 Alyssa D'Angelo | Misperceived: An In-Depth Study of Percy Weasley’s History, Actions, and Redemption, as Supported by Theories of Developmental Psychology
🌏 Joshua Sosa | The Great Wizarding World-Building
⚡️ Melanie Lee | Marked as UNequal: Harry Potter and the Good News of Rescue

Letje Malle Presents: They Who Must Be Named: Actors of Press Freedom in the Magical and Muggle WorldHarry Potter Academic Conference 2025AbstractThis presen...

12/05/2025

Seven more talks from this year's conference are now available to view on our YouTube channel! We were wowed by comparisons to a classic Bengali fantasy film, philosophical approaches, and much more. Check them all out now!

⚖️ Tooba Rizvi | “The Order of Knowledge”: Epistemic Authority and Injustice in the Wizarding World
🗡️ Anna-Maria Grill | The Villain’s Sidekick: Bellatrix Lestrange in J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter Series
🪴 Mondana Mohammadi | Environmental Discourse in the Harry Potter Series
🎞️ Madhurai Gangopadhyay & Baijayanti Mukhopadhyay | Synthesis of the Real and Fantastic: A Comparative Study of Magic as a Crucial Weapon in the Battle of Good vs. Evil Between Rowling’s Harry Potter Series and Satyajit Ray’s Gupi Gayin Bagha Bayin
🪞 Louise Freeman Davis, Lana Whited & Katy McDaniel | Presentations with Panel Discussion, The Mirror of Rettopyrrah: Wizarding World Reflections in Post-Potter Books
✍️ Salini K. | Indian Harry Potter Fan Fiction and Cultural Relocations
↔️ Theodoros Skalidakis | The Issue of Free Will in Harry Potter: A Kantian Approach

Baijayanti Mukhopadhyay and Madhurai Gangopadhyay Present: Synthesis of the Real and Fantastic: A Comparative Study of Magic as a Crucial Weapon in the Battl...

11/28/2025

We hope our community had a happy Thanksgiving! To show our thanks for all of you, please enjoy another talk from this year's conference, a fascinating take on Dumbledore by longtime presenter Lorrie Kim.

Stay tuned for the rest of the presentations from the 2025 conference in the coming weeks!

Lorrie Kim Presents: No, Not Like a Pig for SlaughterHarry Potter Academic Conference 2025AbstractThere are still things to figure out about this story, stil...

11/15/2025

Yet another of our invited speaker talks is now available on our YouTube channel! Check our Dr. Auba Llompart's presentation about the rejection of patriarchal power in Harry Potter.

Invited Speaker, Dr. Auba Llompart presents: “Some Wizards Just Like to Boast that Theirs Are Bigger and Better”: Harry Potter and the Rejection of Patriarch...

11/07/2025

Dr. Brent Satterly has been a fierce and fabulous presence at the Harry Potter Academic Conference for ten years now! Watch this year's excellent take on Dolores Umbridge, q***r history, and current events.

Invited Speaker, Brent Satterly Presents: Hem Hem… I Take Umbridge with Authoritarianism: The Q***r History of GryffindorHarry Potter Academic Conference 20...