Harry Potter Academic Conference
The Harry Potter Academic Conference (HPAC) is a non-profit, annual academic conference hosted by Chestnut Hill College (Philadelphia, PA, USA). This interdisciplinary conference welcomes all participants—from curious fans to full professors—to present and engage with scholarship on the Potterverse and find community among other Potter scholars.
For more information, go to: harrypotterconference.com
Queer Reparations through Fan Fiction by Katherine Davis-Wright
Marked as UNequal: Harry Potter and the Good News of Rescue by Melanie Lee
The Great Wizarding World-Building by Joshua Sosa
Prisons in the Wizarding World: Symptoms of Failing Democracy by Marjolaine Martin
They Who Must Be Named: Actors of Press Freedom in the Magical and Muggle World by Letje Malle
Misperceived: An In-Depth Study of Percy Weasley by Alyssa D'Angelo
The Mirror of Rettopyrrah: Wizarding World Reflections in Post-Potter Books, a Panel Discussion
Indian Harry Potter Fan Fiction and Cultural Relocations by Salini K.
The Issue of Free Will in Harry Potter: A Kantian Approach by Theodoros Skalidakis
The Villain’s Sidekick: Bellatrix Lestrange in J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter Series, Anna-Maria Grill
Synthesis of the Real and Fantastic: A Comparative Study of Magic as a Crucial Weapon
Environmental Discourse in the Harry Potter Series by Mandana Kolahdouz Mohammadi
“The Order of Knowledge”: Epistemic Authority and Injustice in the Wizarding World by Tooba Rizvi
No, Not Like a Pig for Slaughter by Lorrie Kim
“Some Wizards Just Like to Boast that Theirs Are Bigger and Better” by Auba Llompart
Hem Hem… I Take Umbridge with Authoritarianism: The Queer History of Gryffindor by Brent Satterly
A Sonic Journey through Good, Evil, and Resistance in the Harry Potter Film Series by Jamie Webster
Harry Potter in Russia: The Politics of Enchantment Under Putin by Eliot Borenstein, Plenary
Hem Hem… I take Umbridge with the Stain: Healing Half-Blood Fans with CON-nection by Brent Satterley
Key Chapters in Harry Potter II by Lana Whited, Melissa Aaron, and Lorrie Kim
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Gethsemane by John Anthony Dunne
The Non-Fiction Adventure that Happens Outside the Fictional One by Patrick McCauley
What Did the Headmaster Know, and When Did He Know It? by David Martin
The Petunia Palimpsest by Kathryn N. McDaniel
Love, Guilt, and the Inner Struggles of Albus Dumbledore by Jackey Taggart
The Dark Side of a Headmaster by Maria Matsakis
Dumbledore, Agamemnon, and the Imperfect Legacy by Mitchell Parks
Hogwarts’s Hidden Drug Scene by John Ciampi
The Subtle Magic of Epithets in Harry Potter by Joshua Sosa
“The Ministry Has Fallen”: Voldemort’s Policies and Project 2025 by Beth Sutton-Ramspeck