Portus

portus

Dates: 10 – 13 July, 2008

Location: Hilton Anatole, Dallas, TX

Minister of Magic:  Bekki Olivieri

Special Guests & Keynote Speakers: Jim Dale, Sue Upton, Steve Vander Ark, Heidi Tandy,  Paul DeGeorge, Dr Henry Jenkins

By the numbers: 7 programming tracks over 17 hours, for a total of 74 programming sessions

Portus took place in Dallas, Texas, at the Hilton Anatole from July 10, 2008 to July 13, 2008. There was a mix of formal and informal programming throughout the conference. Informal programming began mid-day on July 10th with showings of the Harry Potter movies through out the day and a Wizard Rock Concert later in the evening.The informal programming throughout the conference included Quidditch, wizard rock, special performances and fandom meetups as well as Mystery Masquerade.  Formal programming began on July 11th which included sessions on everything from roundtables on how the 7th Harry Potter book has changed the community, to panels looking at the symbolism present in the series, and even to YA readings from authors who have been influenced by Harry Potter. The Keynote Luncheons were given by Dr. Henry Jenkins and Monique Trottier and a special plenary session was given by Jim Dale on Saturday July 12th.

Welcome to Portus 2008

Portus Team with Jim Dale

The Portus Team with Jim Dale

HarryPotterFancons created Portus 1 year ago

Advertisements

Leave a Reply

Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in:

WordPress.com Logo

You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. Log Out /  Change )

Google photo

You are commenting using your Google account. Log Out /  Change )

Twitter picture

You are commenting using your Twitter account. Log Out /  Change )

Facebook photo

You are commenting using your Facebook account. Log Out /  Change )

Connecting to %s
https://hpef.wordpress.com/portus/
hpef.wordpress.com
crawl=CC-MAIN-2019-18
59664
application/http; msgtype=response
sha1:ZUDNMEZQZEVLVT3IVMKPF72S5XDOUKWH
<urn:uuid:7dd7effd-01d4-449c-928c-a3feb7164b37>
2019-04-20T00:24:55Z
192.0.78.12
text/html
sha1:F4GEBM24ISMYZROS44UJNNH4O2IMFILX
<urn:uuid:28eba8b4-d914-45ac-a1da-5847fd741913>
https://hpef.wordpress.com/portus/
response
<urn:uuid:af54a883-198e-40b0-9e0d-0165457a174d>
isPartOf: CC-MAIN-2019-18
publisher: Common Crawl
description: Wide crawl of the web for April 2019
operator: Common Crawl Admin (info@commoncrawl.org)
hostname: ip-10-43-187-176.ec2.internal
software: Apache Nutch 1.15 (modified, https://github.com/commoncrawl/nutch/)
robots: checked via crawler-commons 1.1-SNAPSHOT (https://github.com/crawler-commons/crawler-commons)
format: WARC File Format 1.1
conformsTo: http://iipc.github.io/warc-specifications/specifications/warc-format/warc-1.1/