http://www.terminus2008.org/info/updates.html Terminus is an academic and educational conference on all things Harry Potter. Keep up-to-date with our website updates as they happen. en-us Copyright 2006-8 Narrate Conferences, Inc. sabrina.chin@terminus2008.org (Sabrina Chin) Wed 02 Jul 2008 09:28:00 EDT 5 http://www.terminus2008.org/info/updates.html http://www.terminus2008.org/images/t8logo_rss.gif 88 31 Terminus is an academic and educational conference on all things Harry Potter. Keep up-to-date with our website updates as they happen. http://www.terminus2008.org/info/updates.html#20080622 Terminus online registration closed on July 2 at 12:01 a.m. Eastern. Attendees and ticket holders may no longer add tickets or programs to their registrations. However, if you would like to pay your balance, please use the Change My Registration or Tickets option. Because our online system is already closed, if you wish to transfer your registration, you must sign and notarize the form, and mail it to your transferee. Then the transferee must present this completed form, along with a photo ID, at the Terminus registration desk. The Terminus staff will then release the transferor's registration packet to the transferee, which will allow the transferee to attend the conference instead of the transferor. web@terminus2008.org (Webteam) Wed 02 Jul 2008 09:28:00 EDT http://www.terminus2008.org/info/updates.html#20080622 The Trade Winds Tournament Teams page was updated with information on the Chicago Area Mensa Fighting Owls, the hp-ohio Crystal Balls, the Knight 62442 Werewolves, and the Lakefront Fire Crabs, including downloads for your blogs and desktops. web@terminus2008.org (Webteam) Sun 22 Jun 2008 09:27:00 EDT http://www.terminus2008.org/info/updates.html#20080621 The Thoth's Tournament of Knowledge page was updated with information on all sixteen teams, including downloads for your blogs and desktops. web@terminus2008.org (Webteam) Sat 21 Jun 2008 16:15:00 EDT http://www.terminus2008.org/info/updates.html#20080602 Schedule page has been updated to include the Games and Activities schedules. Our Vendor Station has been updated with additional vendor listings. web@terminus2008.org (Webteam) Mon 2 Jun 2008 10:38:00 EDT http://www.terminus2008.org/info/updates.html#20080510 Schedule page has been updated with the programming schedules for Friday, Saturday and Sunday, as well as Artists and Authors Night on Saturday. web@terminus2008.org (Webteam) Mon 12 May 2008 12:03:00 EDT http://www.terminus2008.org/info/updates.html#20080501 Chicago is a city of big dreams and grand plans, magnificent shopping, unique neighborhoods and world-class museums. While Terminus is in Chicago, you may want to experience some of what Chicago itself has to offer – and what better way to do so than with other Harry Potter fans? For those who are in town before or after Terminus, we invite you to indulge your adventurous side with some excursions to the sights of Chicago. What better time to meet new Harry Potter enthusiasts than at Terminus? As fans of Harry gather from around the world, why don’t you plan a meet-up – that, is an Intersection – for your favorite group? Are you a ‘shipper, a crafter or a cosplayer? A Slytherin, a Ron fangirl, or a theorist? Organize an Intersection and invite others who share your passion to join you! We’ve updated our Intersection Instructions to include some popular locations in downtown Chicago near the Hilton Chicago Hotel to get you started. Our Vendor Station is now sold out; while our online listing of vendors is not yet complete, the page has been updated with a few vendor listings. Registration price increased to $180. web@terminus2008.org (Webteam) Thu 1 May 2008 14:19:00 EDT http://www.terminus2008.org/info/updates.html#20080425 Tournament tickets for Thoth's Tournament of Knowledge are now officially sold out. web@terminus2008.org (Webteam) Fri 25 Apr 2008 19:39:00 EDT http://www.terminus2008.org/info/updates.html#20080415 Keynote tickets for "Potter Past: Lessons From the Harry Potter Series" are now officially sold out. web@terminus2008.org (Webteam) Mon 15 Mar 2008 20:02:00 EDT http://www.terminus2008.org/info/updates.html#20080331 Tonks and the Aurors was chosen as the twenty-fifth band and will be featured as a headliner during Wrock Chicago. The Twenty-Fifth Band Competition brought Terminus not only a twenty-fifth band, but a twenty-sixth, a twenty-seventh, a twenty-eighth, a twenty-ninth and a thirtieth! The additions to the lineup include The House of Black, Ministry of Magic, Nagini, RiddleTM, and Swish and Flick. All remaining tickets for the Terminus keynote presentations with Cheryl Klein and Tamora Pierce, The Trade Winds Quidditch Tournament, and Wrock Chicago are available to the public. More information about ticket prices and purchases for those not registered for the conference can be found here. web@terminus2008.org (Webteam) Mon 31 Mar 2008 12:10:00 EDT http://www.terminus2008.org/info/updates.html#20080319 Terminus is happy to announce two Keynote Presentations! Cheryl Klein, Senior Editor at Arthur A. Levine Books (an imprint of Scholastic, Inc.) and U.S. continuity editor for the Harry Potter series, joins us to speak on "Potter Past: Lessons from the Harry Potter Series." Fantasy author Tamora Pierce, who published her first young adult novel, Alanna: The First Adventure (about a girl who disguises herself as a boy to become a knight), in 1983, and has published more than 20 young adult novels since, will speak on "Potter Future: The Changing Face of Fantasy Literature." web@terminus2008.org (Webteam) Wed 19 Mar 2008 08:46:00 EDT http://www.terminus2008.org/info/updates.html#20080303 Accepted Proposals page was added with information regarding the programming that will be offered on August 8, 9, and 10, 2008. Please be aware that this is only a partial list of the programming that will be offered at the conference. As accepted presenters confirm their conference participation by registering, their presentations will be added to this list. Updates to the list are generally made every other week. web@terminus2008.org (Webteam) Mon 3 Mar 2008 12:48:00 EST http://www.terminus2008.org/info/updates.html#20080201 Wrock Chicago was upated with information on the Twenty-Fifth Band Competition. Right now, we have twenty-four bands on the lineup for Wrock Chicago, the amazing, all-day wizard rock festival that takes place the day before Terminus. The event will feature three stages, ten hours of wizard rock...and twenty-five bands. This competition will determine who our twenty-fifth band is, and Terminus invites all witches, wizards and wrockers to enter. If you win, we’ll feature your band alongside wizard rock bands both new and established, well-known and just discovered. We hope you choose to enter. We’re going to wrock Chicago, and you could be part of it! web@terminus2008.org (Webteam) Fri 1 Feb 2008 10:50:00 EST http://www.terminus2008.org/info/updates.html#20080129 The Trade Winds Tournament Teams page was updated with information on the FictionAlley Cats team including downloads for your blogs and desktops. web@terminus2008.org (Webteam) Tue 29 Jan 2008 10:45:00 EST http://www.terminus2008.org/info/updates.html#20080122 The Trade Winds Tournament Teams page was updated with information on the Betas Anonymous Punctuation Pixies team including downloads for your blogs and desktops. web@terminus2008.org (Webteam) Tue 22 Jan 2008 08:15:00 EST http://www.terminus2008.org/info/updates.html#20080116 As we embark on our fundraising efforts for Terminus, we've decided to start giving back even before the conference, and we hope that the effort will be led by the generous fan community. To show support for the incredible diversity, creativity, and charity of the fan community, we've decided to do something entirely different for Artists and Authors Night at Terminus. We'd like it to be sponsored not by a corporation, individual, or single group, but by the fans for the fans! Thank you to everyone in the Harry Potter fan community for your overwhelming support over the years and for your continued interest in our events. Thank you for considering participation in our "Fandom Sponsors Fandom...and More!" program. web@terminus2008.org (Webteam) Wed 16 Jan 2008 14:55:00 EST http://www.terminus2008.org/info/updates.html#20080115 The Trade Winds Tournament Teams page was updated with information on the Navy Pier Ninja team including downloads for your blogs and desktops. web@terminus2008.org (Webteam) Tue 15 Jan 2008 07:30:00 EST http://www.terminus2008.org/info/updates.html#20080108 The Trade Winds Tournament Teams page was updated with information on the Wizard Ties Trolls team including downloads for your blogs and desktops. web@terminus2008.org (Webteam) Tue 08 Jan 2008 11:40:00 EST http://www.terminus2008.org/info/updates.html#20071203 The podcast lineup for the Artists and Authors Night event is announced. The evening will kick off with PotterCast, a weekly production of The Leaky Cauldron, which highlights news, discussions about the books and films, and interviews with fans and Harry Potter experts. Spinner's Cast, a diverse Harry Potter podcast founded in 2006, will feature some of their regular elements along with wizard rock interviews and an interactive CallOUT segment, where the audience can sound off about book-related issues. Finally, FictionAlley’s SpellCast, which is focused on fanfiction, will present a live podcast play with conference attendees as voice actors. It's traditional to put up decorations of all sorts this time of year, so we're excited to offer holiday and winter downloads for your blogs and desktops. web@terminus2008.org (Webteam) Mon 03 Dec 2007 08:40:00 EST http://www.terminus2008.org/info/updates.html#20071101 Registration price jumped to $160. web@terminus2008.org (Webteam) Thu 01 Nov 2007 09:45:00 EDT http://www.terminus2008.org/info/updates.html#20071008 The Vetting Boards page was updated with the list of people on the review boards. web@terminus2008.org (Webteam) Mon 08 Oct 2007 09:00:00 EDT http://www.terminus2008.org/info/updates.html#20071003 The Aeolian University Houses page was updated with information about Brubu House. The Faculty page was updated with Brubu House's Head of House Brian Ross's biography. web@terminus2008.org (Webteam) Wed 03 Oct 2007 01:07:00 EDT http://www.terminus2008.org/info/updates.html#20071001 Terminus is thrilled to announce a special pre-conference wizard rock event: Wrock Chicago! In 2000, the Switchblade Kittens rocked the Harry Potter fan community with "Ode to Harry." In 2002, Harry and the Potters began playing libraries around the country. In 2007, more than 200 bands reimagined Harry Potter on the electric guitar, the piano, even the hammered dulcimer -- a phenomenon known as "wizard rock." And in 2008, in a special pre-conference event, Terminus will present Wrock Chicago. Wrock Chicago will feature 25 bands and three stages of fantastic wizarding music, celebrating both the exceptional creativity of the bands themselves and the inspiration of their imagination: the Harry Potter series. The concert will start at noon and won't finish until midnight, and many of the bands will have merchandise available for purchase for anyone looking for a CD or a t-shirt from a favorite band. We hope you'll join us for this historic event. We're going to wrock Chicago -- and we hope you are, too! web@terminus2008.org (Webteam) Mon 01 Oct 2007 10:11:00 EDT http://www.terminus2008.org/info/updates.html#20070923 The Aeolian University Houses page was updated with information about Kohilo House. The Faculty page was updated with Kohilo House's Head of House Skyler Hijazi's biography. web@terminus2008.org (Webteam) Sun 23 Sep 2007 21:15:00 EDT http://www.terminus2008.org/info/updates.html#20070917 The Aeolian University Houses page was updated with information about Matanuska House. The Faculty page was updated with Matanuska House's Head of House Joanna Goldstein's biography. web@terminus2008.org (Webteam) Mon 17 Sep 2007 09:30:00 EDT http://www.terminus2008.org/info/updates.html#20070910 The Aeolian University Houses page was added with information about Pampero House. The Faculty page was updated with Pampero House's Head of House Sue Upton's biography. web@terminus2008.org (Webteam) Mon 10 Sep 2007 00:30:00 EDT http://www.terminus2008.org/info/updates.html#20070904 The Aeolian University History and Faculty pages were added. web@terminus2008.org (Webteam) Tues 04 Sep 2007 22:15:00 EDT http://www.terminus2008.org/info/updates.html#20070822 We are thrilled to announce that the Hilton Chicago Hotel is now taking reservations for Terminus! We hope that you’ll choose to stay at our official conference hotel; not only will you be closer to the conference, you’ll help us keep our costs down by filling our required guest room block. The discounted room rate for Terminus is $169 per night, plus tax, which is good for up to four people in a room. We also have additional guest room options available, such as doubles with two bathrooms, executive floor rooms, and suites. These rates will apply to rooms booked for the night of August 3, 2008 through the night of August 13, 2008. For more information on how to make a reservation with the Hilton Chicago Hotel, please visit the updated Hotel page. web@terminus2008.org (Webteam) Wed 22 Aug 2007 16:35:00 EDT http://www.terminus2008.org/info/updates.html#20070720 Downloads page was updated with special avatars, icons and desktops with the phrase, “With you whatever happens,” to celebrate the release of the final book, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, and the fandom that the series created. web@terminus2008.org (Webteam) Fri 20 Jul 2007 02:19:00 EDT http://www.terminus2008.org/info/updates.html#20070703 Press Inquiries page was updated to include the press kit. web@terminus2008.org (Webteam) Tue 03 Jul 2007 17:30:00 EDT http://www.terminus2008.org/info/updates.html#20070630 The Terminus online submission system for Academic Programming Submissions and Exploratory Programming Submissions opened. web@terminus2008.org (Webteam) Sat 30 Jun 2007 12:05:00 EDT http://www.terminus2008.org/info/updates.html#20070608 Complimentary, limited edition “Terminus: Arriving 2008” t-shirt promotion sold out. web@terminus2008.org (Webteam) Fri 08 Jun 2007 23:59:00 EDT http://www.terminus2008.org/info/updates.html#20070522 Registration price jumped to $140. web@terminus2008.org (Webteam) Tue 22 May 2007 09:46:00 EDT http://www.terminus2008.org/info/updates.html#20070423 Website opened. Registration system opened; the initial price was $120. Volunteer intake system opened. web@terminus2008.org (Webteam) Mon 23 Apr 2007 17:46:00 EDT