Registration Open for Accio 2008 and Guest Speakers Announced!

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Accio UK is pleased to announce that registration is now open for 
Accio 2008, a conference in the United Kingdom about all things 
related to Harry Potter.  Accio 2008 will be held from 25 to 27 July 
2008 at Magdalen College, University of Oxford.  

The registration fee provides entry to all formal programming 
sessions and to all guest speaker lectures, a cash bar reception on 
Friday night, a banquet on Saturday evening, coffee, tea and biscuits 
served at all refreshment breaks, lunch on Sunday and a copy of the 
printed conference proceedings.  Delegates have the option of booking 
a room (bed and breakfast) at Magdalen College for an additional fee.

Due to space constraints, conference attendance will be limited to 
the first 150 registrants. The registration system will close once we 
reach capacity. We encourage interested delegates to register early 
to avoid disappointment. 

To register, please visit: 
http://www.accio.org.uk/registration.shtml .

Accio is also pleased to announce that Emer O'Sullivan and Gillian 
Hall will be the keynote speakers at Accio 2008.  Emer O'Sullivan is 
Professor of English Literature at Leuphana University Lüneburg 
(Germany). She has published widely in both German and English on 
image studies, children's literature and translation and has received 
international recognition for her work in comparative children's 
literature studies.  She has also coauthored, with Dietmar Rösler, 
seven genuinely bilingual children's novels. Gillian Hall is a 
Lecturer at Reading University, and holds a BA in English Language 
and Literature and an MA in Medieval Studies from Reading University. 
Her research of fifteenth century literature involved study in 
Brussels, Paris, London, Cambridge and Oxford. She also contributed 
papers to research seminars at Reading and All Souls College, Oxford. 
Ms. Hall combined her interests in film and literature in a course 
she recently taught at Reading University entitled `From Snow White 
to Harry Potter.' 

Also, a reminder that the Programming Committee is accepting 
presentation proposals through 4 January 2008.  Accio 2008's Call for 
Papers may be viewed here: 
http://www.accio.org.uk/callforpapers.shtml .

For more information, please visit http://www.accio.org.uk/ .

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The Accio 2008 conference is an unofficial event and is not endorsed, 
sanctioned or in any other way supported, directly or indirectly, by 
Warner Bros. Entertainment, the Harry Potter book publishers, or J.K.
Rowling and her representatives.