Spätestens wenn man Ergebnisse veröffentlicht sind wissenschaftliche Aktivitäten (und solche die beanspruchen oder beansprucht haben es zu sein) nicht mehr Handlungen und Handlungsfolgen einer Privatperson als Privatperson, sondern sind der öffentlichen persona des Handelnden zuzurechnen ( Read more... )

Habe Daniel Domscheit-Bergs inside WikiLeaks fertiggelesen.

Bin überrascht wie unpolitisch das Buch ist (trotz dem Bericht zu von D-B geschätzten politischen Büchern und Autoren, trotz und wegen dem was zu den Cables [deren Inhalt anscheinend für reine Wahrheit gehalten wird, ohne dass angegeben würde warum] pp. 266sqq zu lesen steht ( Read more... )

Auf der andren Seite der Schwelle: Sprachlich. Und inhaltlich ( Read more... )

As announced on this blog on 2010-12-03: Theoria magiae non est magia mere theoretica (ut probatur) will lose its focus on things HP. I'm saying Goodbye to the metapotterverse.

Scholarly potterism as of now has not come to an end, - this is well documented in (and by) Cornelia Rémi's magnificent Harry Potter Bibliography, which has recently (2011- ( Read more... )

Just to say: This Blog is still alive. And I plan to post a (very short) review of The ultimate Harry Potter and Philosophy (edited by Gregory Bashham, published 2010, and read by me in November) sometime this month or early next year ( Read more... )

Academic Harry Potter studies are still alive: in this CFP for a panel of a New Brunswick confernce (title: The Art of Villainy: Machiavelli and the Creation of the Fictional Villain) you can read i.a.:

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This panel will explore Machiavelli’s impact on villains from the early modern period to today, from Iago and Milton’s Satan to Lex Luthor, ( Read more... )

Cornelia Rémi's Harry Potter Bibliography (the place to look for people interested in more or less scholarly texts on Harry Potter) has been updated once again (this time on 2010-04-10 ( Read more... )

In Fretful Porpentine's 2010-02-03 entry on preparations for Misnomer U.'s first Shakespeare production you can read:
They also wanted to know whether fairies were nocturnal, whether it was appropriate for Oberon to put on a special cloak when he was meant to be invisible, and whether Snout's "By'r lakin, a parlous fear" meant that he was Irish. (I ( Read more... )

Last Sunday the parish priest used in his sermon Harry's entry into Hogwarts as a simile of the start of a spiritual journey transforming both the person on that voyage and his environment ( Read more... )

The Harry Potter business (and parts of the fandom) seem to be in some decline:

• I was not able to get an audio version of PS read by Stephen Frey (which I wanted to have as a gift pr christmas) via amazon.


• I've almost finished reading CoS (in the German version) to my daughter, and up to now she has not requested that the next book I should read ( Read more... )