The deadline for submitting a Lumos proposal is just 4 days away! Midnight
on January 15, 2006 is the last chance to send in your proposal to present at Lumos 2006: A Harry Potter Symposium.

In addition to formal papers, Lumos is seeking a variety of presentation models, including pre-organized critical panels, workshops, roundtables and poster sessions. Suggested topics include:

• Discussion of themes within the Harry Potter books and films
• Exploration of legal and political issues related to the texts, both within the world of the books and as they relate to our own Muggle world
• Critical responses to the texts through the lenses of anthropology, sociology, psychology, folklore, etc.
• Programming suited for educators and librarians
• Discussions of the unique cultural issues arising within the Harry Potter fandom.
• Examination and discussion of original fan-generated responses to the texts

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Are you a stickler for good grammar? Are you obsessed with the proper spellings of HP-canon terms? Do you understand the difference between
question marks and quotation marks?

Then please, please, please take the FictionAlley Fic Intake Team Quiz/Application and volunteer for Team FA. A commitment of eight hours a week is all that is required, and you can split it up among as many days as you wish. We really need new staffers, because during the launch of our new system, we didn't actively recruit, which leaves us a little short-staffed now. The more people we have on the team, the shorter the turnaround time for newly submitted fics!