Hello and welcome to which please a fortnightly podcast about the Harry Potter world.

I'm Hannah McGregor. And today, Witches, we are bringing you another minisode, or I guess technically an extended universe episode.

We were very kindly invited in May to participate in a live panel organized by Edmonton's Potter Watch as part of a project they're

referring to as Project Ferenc. The topic of this panel is the importance of diversity and representation in fantasy

literature. I have edited the panel down a little bit for the sake of brevity

and I'm not totally sure how good the sound quality is going to be.

But please go ahead and enjoy this live episode with a promise that the next episode will not be a minisode.

Hi, I'm Emily Hoban.

I'm Nina Legessa. So we're just going to start by introducing our panelists

so some of them are not here but we'll introduce them nonetheless so

Dr. Lucinda Rasmussen is a sessional instructor

at the University of Alberta, where she earned her PhD

in 2013 and has been teaching undergraduate English and writing studies for about

eight years. She has taught classes on popular culture, gender, feminism, and race. For the

past five years she has been teaching a class called Introduction to Aboriginal Lliteratures.

When teaching this course, she asks students to think through ideas about what it might mean to

decolonize the study of literature and to think about scholarship and reading practices that might foster good relationships

and which are reciprocal.

And Roxanne Hart is a professor of English and Associate Dean of Research at the University

of Alberta, Augustana. She researches American Women's of research

American women's writing and children's literature using cultural studies approaches.

Her work has appeared in several journals including

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