Bugger! Bugger! Bugger! (Lumos 2006 Material)

This is just an update post ... I finally unearthed the Lumos data CD today and neither of the two I had been thinking of that I have not heard at all but wanted to are on there ... going to have to order the audio CDs, I guess. - The Trickster Archetype - The Sanctification of the Everyday in Harry Potter I did order one of them at the conference but can't remember which (and later kicked myself while on the plane thinking ... "bugger! ... wanted to get that other one too." So I'll have to wait till the one I did order comes in and then order the other one. But anyway, as a sort of preview, here are some titles that are on the disk and some that I'll be checking out and probably writing up on here: 1. (For Travis) Both Maria Hsai Chang's Malignant Narcissist Paper and Joselle Vanderhooft and Kim DeCina's paper on Mental Illness in HP are on there (and how extremely cool that those two ladies. Joselle and Kim, have stopped by for chats in the combox of that post here ... I was really excited about that, and need to get back over to it soon and respond to a really thoughtful comment left by Kim). 2. Granger's Paper for his talk is on there so I'll probably root through that before writing the post. 3. Tom Morris's "The Amazing Practical Wisdom of Harry Potter" was pretty popular at the conference and I think he has a book at by that or a close title, so I'm expecting that to be a fun read at least. 4. One Called "Harry's Loves, Harry's Hates: A New Key to their Mysteries, or, The Dumbledore Code" looks interesting - by Catherine Danielson. 5. The Hero's Journey of Harry Potter - by Priscilla Hobbe's Penn (I actually stopped and talked to her for a bit the one night they had a set of tables where presenters could set up a visual display.) 6. Not Just Good and Evil: Moral Alignment in HP by Todd A. Bannon (meant to make it to this one but missed it.) 7. The Silver Hand Motif: Peter Pettigrew in its Grasp - Katherine E. Krohn (stopped and talke to her too, I'm always interested in hand motifs - the right hand of power in Semitic/Hebraic and the sinister left hand in Christian Latin Tradition - she looked like her material might have some really good background stuff and sources.) 8. The Slytherin Question by Eva Theinpont is on the disk two, so some good stuff for Pauli. 9. A paper on female archetypes in HP by Barbara Purdom (I'm really interested to hear if she has stuff on Tonks.) 10. Two essays on "Teacher of the Year" by two separate presenters, one on Lupin and one arguing for Snape ... the latter should be really good. 11. "Where Have all the Pure-bloods Gone? A Look at Family and Lineage in Harry Potter" - by Craig Foster (sounds really interesting - and part of it is the title too ... over on the immense discussion on PotC with Sumara a use of examples of similar elements in other movies led to her admission of something that she though might cast her and her family in a "fluff" light, I think, ... a miniature of Puss-in-Boots sitting on the shelf of the desk she was writing at ... to which I had to honestly reply that I am a huge fan of the Shrek movies, so I also own the soundtracks, with the two versions of Bonnie Tyler's "I need a hero" on Shrek 2 soundtrack - one by Jennifer Saunders [formerly of the Brit TV show AbFab] as the fairy godmother, and the other by Frou Frou [which I was pretty into] ... This paper title could also be from the Guthrie song, "Where have all the Flowers Gone" ... but personally I see it fitting a lot more with the opening lines of the Tyler song, "Where have all the good men gone, and where are all the gods?") 12. Jeanne LeHaie's paper on Voldy and Jewish name Magic and the golem is on the disk too, so may be some really good goodies in the way of resource materials (this is such a "grad school" thing ... I was telling my friend Dom about this past beastie encyclopedia and we were talking about encyclopedias "as such" and what an encyclopedia entry should try to accomplish etc etc and I said "when I go to an enc. article I will skim to see if there is anything good in the article itself but basically I am going there as a 'bloody pirate' out on a bibliography raid" ... but seriously, in the "skimming" done listening to her talk at the conference itself, her paper itself is well worth reading for more than just reading her bibliography. And that makes 12, a good magical number to end on. :)