Terminus

Terminus was a Harry Potter conference that took place August 7-11 2008 in Chicago Illinois. The conference featured more than 180 hours of educational programming presented by scholars teachers business and industry professionals librarians readers and others with an interest in the Harry Potter novels films and phenomenon. Following the conference presenters were invited to contribute papers for this compendium which includes perspectives on Harry Potter as part of the curriculum an analysis of the wizarding world's legal system criticism of gender roles in the series sets of questions from roundtable discussions and many additional essays. Terminus was produced by Narrate Conferences Inc. and was not endorsed sanctioned or any other way supported directly or indirectly by Warner Bros. Entertainment the Harry Potter book publishers or J. K. Rowling and her representatives.