Lecture
Time:
“Harry Potter’s Fantastic Beasts, or, Wandering with the Werewolves”
Date:
7:30 pm
Nebraska Union
Room: Auditorium
1400 R St
Lincoln NE 68508
Lincoln NE 68508
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The Larson Building Parking Garage (situated above Chipotle Mexican Grill, Panda Express, Tom and Chee, and Mutual of Omaha Bank) is the closest public parking garage, with the entrance off Q street (between 13th and 14th streets), right before reaching Chipotle Mexican Grill. First hour is free, and each hour after is $1 http://parkandgo.org/find-parking/interactive-map/.
Additional Info: NU
Contact:
Andrea Nichols, unl.medrenstudies@gmail.com
J.K. Rowling’s highly successful Harry Potter series will continue with the exploration of Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, the name of a book read by students at Hogwarts and written by Rowling in 2001. The movie trilogy will begin with the first movie—with the same name as the book—in November 2016, set 70 years before the story in Harry Potter.
UNL Medieval and Renaissance Studies is proud to have a second talk by Melissa Aaron, Professor in the Department of English and Foreign Languages at Cal Poly Pomona, drawing upon one of her sub-specialties on werewolves and Harry Potter.
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Official abstract for the presentation:
Mythological beasts and J. K. Rowling’s unique spin on them are at the core of the Harry Potter series. It’s telling that in one of her earliest sets of notes, one of the classes she decided Hogwarts students would take is named, simply, “Beasts.” So important are magical beasts to the Potterverse that Rowling published one of Harry’s textbooks, “Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them,” which she’s further expanded into a movie due for release in November of 2016.
This talk, Fantastic Beasts or Wandering With Werewolves, looks at the genesis of Rowling’s magical creatures through the medieval bestiary. It discusses unusual deviations from typical folklore, such as fairies, who are more like insects than humans in Rowling’s work. It then examines two distinct “arcs” in the books: the “dragon arc” and the “unicorn arc, both founded on classical and Medieval and Renaissance depictions of these creatures and their twentieth century development by authors like C.S. Lewis, T.H. White and J.R.R. Tolkein. Finally, the talk culminates in werewolf lore and how Rowling has adopted it and adapted it for her own purposes.
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Co-sponsored by the Department of English, and the Johnny Carson School of Theatre & Film
This event is free, and open to the public.
Map of the Nebraska Union http://unions.unl.edu/Floorplans/Nebraska_Union_Floorplans_2015.pdf
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Check out other news articles and interviews about Dr. Aaron’s work with Harry Potter:
http://polycentric.cpp.edu/2014/12/harry-potter-class-has-students-spellbound-as-ge-course/#.VtXjpJwrKUk
http://www.thepolypost.com/lifestyle/wizarding-world-awaits-in-cal-poly-class/article_797bfdcc-0c32-11e2-964b-001a4bcf6878.html
http://polycentric.cpp.edu/2011/11/literary_cultural_harry_potter/#.VtYThJwrKUk
Audio and transcript: http://www.mugglenet.com/2014/03/mugglenet-academia-lesson-27-billywigs-bowtruckles-and-basilisks-harry-potters-fantastic-beasts-is-now-available-for-download/
UNL Medieval and Renaissance Studies is proud to have a second talk by Melissa Aaron, Professor in the Department of English and Foreign Languages at Cal Poly Pomona, drawing upon one of her sub-specialties on werewolves and Harry Potter.
=========================================
Official abstract for the presentation:
Mythological beasts and J. K. Rowling’s unique spin on them are at the core of the Harry Potter series. It’s telling that in one of her earliest sets of notes, one of the classes she decided Hogwarts students would take is named, simply, “Beasts.” So important are magical beasts to the Potterverse that Rowling published one of Harry’s textbooks, “Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them,” which she’s further expanded into a movie due for release in November of 2016.
This talk, Fantastic Beasts or Wandering With Werewolves, looks at the genesis of Rowling’s magical creatures through the medieval bestiary. It discusses unusual deviations from typical folklore, such as fairies, who are more like insects than humans in Rowling’s work. It then examines two distinct “arcs” in the books: the “dragon arc” and the “unicorn arc, both founded on classical and Medieval and Renaissance depictions of these creatures and their twentieth century development by authors like C.S. Lewis, T.H. White and J.R.R. Tolkein. Finally, the talk culminates in werewolf lore and how Rowling has adopted it and adapted it for her own purposes.
=================================================
Co-sponsored by the Department of English, and the Johnny Carson School of Theatre & Film
This event is free, and open to the public.
Map of the Nebraska Union http://unions.unl.edu/Floorplans/Nebraska_Union_Floorplans_2015.pdf
=================================================
Check out other news articles and interviews about Dr. Aaron’s work with Harry Potter:
http://polycentric.cpp.edu/2014/12/harry-potter-class-has-students-spellbound-as-ge-course/#.VtXjpJwrKUk
http://www.thepolypost.com/lifestyle/wizarding-world-awaits-in-cal-poly-class/article_797bfdcc-0c32-11e2-964b-001a4bcf6878.html
http://polycentric.cpp.edu/2011/11/literary_cultural_harry_potter/#.VtYThJwrKUk
Audio and transcript: http://www.mugglenet.com/2014/03/mugglenet-academia-lesson-27-billywigs-bowtruckles-and-basilisks-harry-potters-fantastic-beasts-is-now-available-for-download/
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