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Angie Hunt - "Muggles, Magic and Abuse"
Angie Hunt, ICDVP, is the Housing Program director for HOPE of East Central Illinois and has spent 18 years working with survivors of domestic violence and their children. Throughout those years, she has trained hundreds of individuals on the dynamics of domestic violence, as well as presenting on the state and local level. Recently, she was selected to participate in and graduated from the Illinois Coalition Against Domestic Violence Leadership Academy.
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Chelsea Duncan - "Quidditch Tournament"
Chelsea Duncan is an Instructor in the Kinesiology and Sports Studies department at Eastern Illinois University. She teaches Exercise Psychology and her research focuses on effects of HIIT on body-esteem among college-aged women.
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Dr. Richard Wilkinson - "Harry Potter Menu at The Cafe" Oct. 3
Dr. Richard Wilkinson teaches hospitality management at Eastern Illinois University and supervises The Cafe, a student managed casual dining experience. His research interests include hospitality manager job satisfaction, work environment, and retention; restaurant manager leadership styles; and hospitality advisory boards.
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Dr. Suzie Park - "The Boy Who Lived: Harry Potter and the Culture of Death"
Dr. Suzie Asha Park is a professor of English at EIU. She earned a Ph.D. in English at UC Berkeley and a B.A. in English and in African and Asian Languages and Literature at Duke University. While her undergraduate interests included pre-med studies, English and music, her passion for literature won out in the end. Her areas of teaching and research interest include British Romanticism, the novel, poetry, women writers, sentimental culture, literary theory, information theory and the medical humanities.
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"Harry Potter Menu at The Cafe" - Oct. 5
Our menu at the Cafe on October 3 and 5 include Mrs. Weasley's Corned Beef Sandwich, Quidditch Palyers' Pie, and Kreacher's French Onion Soup, each served with Pumpkin Pasties and Hagrid's Rock Cakes. Beverages will Butter Beer and Polyjuice Potion.
The Café offers a variety of soups, salads, sandwiches and pastas with featured menu items changing weekly. Menus are subject to change based on availability of ingredients. We are a student managed casual dining experience. Stop in and enjoy lunch with a colleague!
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Lola Burnham - "Harry Potter and the Cult of Celebrity"
Lola Burnham is a professor in Eastern’s Journalism Department, interim director of Student Publications, and editorial adviser to The Daily Eastern News. One of her research areas is media ethics, and she enjoys using the Harry Potter books to connect to her research topics. She has many fond memories of taking her children to Harry Potter book release parties. She is also still wondering why her letter from Hogwarts never arrived and suspects that nargles are to blame.
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Lola Burnham - "Poison Pen: Rita Skeeter, her Quick-Quotes Quill & Journalism Ethics in the Wizarding World"
Lola Burnham is a professor in Eastern’s Journalism Department, interim director of Student Publications, and editorial adviser to The Daily Eastern News. One of her research areas is media ethics, and she enjoys using the Harry Potter books to connect to her research topics. She has many fond memories of taking her children to Harry Potter book release parties. She is also still wondering why her letter from Hogwarts never arrived and suspects that nargles are to blame.
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Michele McDaniel - "Dark Arts and Other Wicked Ideas: Harry Potter, Banned Books and Intellectual Freedom"
Michele McDaniel is a reference librarian and instructor at EIU's Booth Library, serving as the coordinator of the Ballenger Teachers Center and subject liaison for the education departments within the College of Education and Professional Studies. Michele earned a B.A. from Calvin College, majoring in English and minoring in Latin. She holds an M.S. in Library and Information Science and is a candidate for a C.A.S. postgraduate degree in Library and Information Science, both from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Before joining the faculty at EIU, Michele served for four years as a teacher librarian in the Charleston Community Unit School District No. 1, maintaining collections and teaching at Carl Sandburg, Mark Twain and Ashmore elementary schools.
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Quidditch Tournament - September 15, 2017
Calling all Muggles: Players needed!
Quidditch Tournament - Family weekend, September 15, 2017
Sign up by September 5!
Sponsored by Booth Library and the Kinesiology and Sports Studies department
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Ryan McDaniel - "Dark Arts and Other Wicked Ideas: Harry Potter, Banned Books and Intellectual Freedom"
Ryan McDaniel has been a member of the faculty of the Department of Communication Studies at EIU since 2007. A proud alum, Ryan has earned four degrees from Eastern, including B.A. degrees in communication studies and philosophy, and M.A. degrees in communication studies and history. He also holds an M.A. in theology from the Aquinas Institute of Theology, an M.Div. from Luther Rice Seminary and University, and has studied religion as a postgraduate student at Princeton Theological Seminary. Most recently, he has pursued doctoral studies in religion and rhetoric at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, as well as Nashotah House Theological Seminary. In addition to his service at EIU, Ryan McDaniel is an ordained priest of the Orthodox Church, serving as a chaplain in the Illinois Air National Guard.
This photo gallery features presenter biographies and event information for lectures and events of the "20 Years of Harry Potter: Celebrating a Phenomenon" exhibit - held Fall semester 2017 at Booth Library at Eastern Illinois University.
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