Free Minds, Harry PotterFest, & "Science Fiction, Part 2"

It's only two days until the Countdown to Halloween begins! \o/ Have a great weekend, my friends.


*** I'll be speaking live tomorrow (via webinar) at the Free Minds Film Festival at the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs. The festival will be screening my short film The Trail of Tears: They Knew It Was Wrong, which debuted online earlier this year.


*** I now have the schedule for Harry PotterFest 2012 at Lenoir-Rhyne University. All events are free and open to the public.

Monday, October 29, 2012

• 10am: "Finding Dumbledore's Mother: Harry Potter in the (Native) American Context"
  (a lecture by Yours Truly, based on my forthcoming essay) at Belk Centrum


• 1pm: Harry Potter Trivia Competition at Rudisill Library


• 4:30pm: A Wizard Rock Concert with Hawthorn and Holly at Shaw Plaza

Tuesday, October 30, 2012
12pm: Yours Truly interviews Danielle Tumminio, author of God and Harry Potter at Yale
(a book signing will follow) at the Bear's Lair


*** Also, after much hemming and hawing, I have decided on the course outline/reading assignments for my online "Science Fiction, Part 2: From the New Wave to Tomorrow" class for graduate students and auditors this Spring at the Mythgard Institute. I'll post an update when registration is open. I'm very excited about it!

( Course Outline/Readings for Science Fiction, Part 2 )

Happy Saturday to you!