Leviosa: Full Schedule

10:00am PDT

Don't Harsh My Squee

Ship what you ship, love what you love, respect your fellow fans pairings! We will be discussing your favorite pairings, canon, non-canon, slash, and crack. We'll discuss the merits and problems of pairings in canon and in fanfic! Come join in, but remember not to harsh the squee!

Speakers

Krista Domin

Krista Domin is an avid Harry Potter, Doctor Who, Sherlock and Downton Abbey fan. She is a graduate of the MA in Educational Leadership program at the University of Central Florida. Prior to that she received her BA in English Literature from the University of New Hampshire.

Friday July 8, 2016 10:00am - 11:00am PDT
Del Sol

Fandom

Type Roundtable

10:00am PDT

Roundtable: Omegaverse

The omegaverse has taken multiple fandoms by storm over the past few years. Come talk about alpha, beta, and omegas and how werewolf/wolf mythology has combined with fannish tropes such as mpreg, threesomes, pack dynamics, and slash to form a completely new genre.

Moderators

blithelybonny

BB has been aggressively immersing herself in fandom ever since she watched Moulin Rouge in 2001 and decided that what would be awesome would be if Christian met Satine's daughter and they got married because that's fine, right? After filling notebooks with terrible Mary Sue fanfiction... Read More →

Friday July 8, 2016 10:00am - 11:00am PDT
Del Mar I

Slash-Queer Lit

Type Roundtable

11:00am PDT

Roundtable: Next-Gen Slash and Femmeslash

Curious about the phenomenon that is Albus Severus/Scorpius or ready to flail about Lily Luna/Rose? Join us as we talk about all manner of Next Gen ships in Harry Potter, both slash and femmeslash!

Moderators

Gracerene

Grace is a fanfiction writer who's written countless stories, primarily in the Harry Potter fandom. She is mostly a slash writer, with a particular love of H/D, but she's been known to write other pairings and pairing types as well. In addition to writing, she also reads and recommends... Read More →

Friday July 8, 2016 11:00am - 12:00pm PDT
Del Sol

Slash-Queer Lit

Type Roundtable

11:00am PDT

Roundtable: Sherlock

Sherlock has been a fandom for over a century now! Spend the morning talking to fellow fans of all incarnations of the delightfully deductive detective and his loyal, put-upon sidekick!

Moderators

Nancy Reagin

Friday July 8, 2016 11:00am - 12:00pm PDT
Del Mar I

Slash-Queer Lit

Type Roundtable

9:00am PDT

Roundtable: Stucky (Marvel)

CA:TWS, CA:CW, WWII Period-Accurate, pre-WWII Brooklyn, modern era AU, Howling Commandos, Avengers-related, shrinkyclink, shrunkyclunk, Earth616: this is a roundtable to talk about all of your super-soldier fannish needs! Conversation will focus on the relationship (however complicated) between James "Bucky" Barnes/The Winter Soldier and Steve Rogers/Captain America.

Moderators

Vaysh

Vaysh has been in fandom since... OMG 2003 when she discovered Sam/Frodo and slash, practically at the same time! Today Vaysh is active in both the HP and the Stucky fandom (HP on LiveJournal, Stucky on tumblr). She is one of the editors of the Daily Snitch and mods several Drarry... Read More →

blithelybonny

Noeon (Noe)

Slash and Queer Lit Track Director/Meetup Director, Leviosa

Noe has been active as fan for many years. She thinks her first fannish work was for LOTR book fandom, although she also cosplayed Battle of the Planets as a small child, worried for years over the fate of Starblazers, and will forever be in love with the Fourth Doctor. These days... Read More →

Saturday July 9, 2016 9:00am - 10:30am PDT
Grand Ballroom III

Slash-Queer Lit

Type Roundtable

10:00am PDT

Harry Potter and the Stunted Adults

A character discussion around the authority figures of Harry Potter and the different ways in which things they experienced when they were young colored their judgment and actions during the series. There has been plenty of conversation around Snape, obviously... However, Snape is not alone in allowing past experiences to decide future actions. Hagrid, Petunia Dursley, Sirius Black and Albus Dumbledore are some characters that come to mind.

Speakers

Robyn-Renée

Presenter, Black Nerds Create

Robyn-Renée has been a nerd since her first Scholastic school fair. Robyn-Renée is a community manager, co-founder of Black Nerds Create, host of the podcast #WizardTeam and contributor to #TARBIS: Who Watch. Her favorite things include playing vinyl records in dark rooms, browsing... Read More →

Saturday July 9, 2016 10:00am - 11:00am PDT
Grand Ballroom IV

Fandom

Type Roundtable

10:30am PDT

Roundtable: Remus/Sirius

Want to sit down and chat about your favourite werewolf and Animagus and exactly how great it is when they're paired together in fic? Join this roundtable as we examine what makes Remus/Sirius such an amazing coupling!

Moderators

Elizabeth Minkel

Columnist, New Statesman

I'm a journalist who writes about (mostly) books and fan culture.

Saturday July 9, 2016 10:30am - 12:00pm PDT
Del Fuego

Slash-Queer Lit

Type Roundtable

1:00pm PDT

Wizarding World SAY WHAT?

18+ discussion about the weird, the strange, the perplexing bits and pieces we are teased with in Harry Potter novels! Come talk about the weird!

Speakers

Krista Domin

Saturday July 9, 2016 1:00pm - 2:00pm PDT
Del Mar I

Fandom

Type Roundtable

9:00am PDT

Opportunities Missed and Taken: Race, Class, and Gender in Harry Potter

Join in a facilitated discussion about race, class, and gender in all aspects of Harry Potter. Are you excited about the re-casting of Hermione for the Cursed Child? What do you think of Fantastic Beasts so far?

By the end of this session, participants should have a deeper understanding of how the reader's background influences their demands on the presentation of race, class, and gender in the Harry Potter universe, while identifying missed opportunities and inclusive interpretations.

Speakers

Jillian Staniec

Jillian Staniec plays Quidditch, has a Masters in History, and works in an archive. Her life goals are to learn stuff about things, help others, and travel. She hopes to do all three of these at Leviosa!

Sunday July 10, 2016 9:00am - 10:00am PDT
Del Mar I

Fandom

Type Roundtable

11:00am PDT

Cursed Child SPOILER ZONE

Have you seen and/or read alllll the glorious plot spoilers for Harry Potter & the Cursed Child? Come join your fellow (happily!) spoiled fans and dish! There's so much to discuss! This roundtable will be a 100% spoiler zone, so don't come unless you have been spoiled or wish to be.

Speakers

Femmequixotic (Femme)

Slash and Queer Lit Track Director, Leviosa

Femme has been a fan writer of one stripe or another since she could pick up a pencil. Before stumbling upon online fandom in the early ’90s as an X-Phile, she spent her childhood writing Anne of Green Gables and Gilligan’s Island fanfic—juvenilia which is probably better left... Read More →

Noeon (Noe)

Slash and Queer Lit Track Director/Meetup Director, Leviosa

Alexa Donne

Author, Leviosa

Alexa Donne is a Ravenclaw who wears many hats, including fan convention organizing, teen mentoring, college admissions essay consulting, YouTube-ing and podcasting. When she’s not writing science fiction and fantasy for teens, Alexa works in international television marketing... Read More →

Sunday July 10, 2016 11:00am - 12:00pm PDT
Grand Ballroom IV

Fandom

Type Roundtable

12:00pm PDT

Disney Goes to Wizarding School

An abundance of Disney characters have magic powers, where did they learn these and how? Did the ministry ever get involved? This will be a fanon discussion on how the Disney realm fits in to the wizarding world.

Speakers

Krista Domin

Sunday July 10, 2016 12:00pm - 1:00pm PDT
Del Sol

Fandom

Type Roundtable

12:00pm PDT

What Is Canon?: A Debate

As the Harry Potter universe - and the Wizarding World at large - continues to expand, the question of What Is Canon? seems to come up time and time again. Join the World's #1 Harry Potter website as they hold a classic debate about what is and isn't canon, from Fantastic Beasts to Cursed Child, and beyond. Bring your opinions, and be ready to defend them!

Sunday July 10, 2016 12:00pm - 1:00pm PDT
Del Mar II

Fandom

Type Roundtable

1:00pm PDT

Characters We Love (and love to hate)

In this interactive workshop, participants will peel back text to examine how and why some lesser characters bring about strong fan responses that they did. Who could have foreseen the Blaise Zabini situation? Why didn’t poor Hannah Abbott, or Malcolm Baddock, get the same reaction? What about Isaac in TFIOS or Madge Undersee in the Hunger Games? Let’s give them some love and address what draws readers to some minor characters.

Speakers

Cathy Leogrande

Author/Educator, Le Moyne College

Cathy Leogrande is a Professor in the Teacher Education Department of the Purcell School of Professional Studies at Le Moyne College, a Jesuit college in New York. Her teaching and research focus on new literacies and popular culture to provide K-12 teachers skills to address issues... Read More →

Sunday July 10, 2016 1:00pm - 2:00pm PDT
Del Mar II

YA Literature

Type Roundtable