June 21, 2001
University Park, Pa.—From Harry Potter to Hansel and Gretel, national experts on Children’s Fairy Tales will hold a series of free public lectures June 25 to 28 at Penn State. Sponsored by the College of Education, the lectures will focus on morality, spirits, cosmic myths and how to tell the good guys from the bad guys.

The lectures feature Jack Zipes, a Guggenheim and Fulbright Fellow and professor of German at the University of Minnesota; Marina Warner, a novelist, critic and author of "From Beast to Blonde, Six Myths for Our Time"; and Lissa Paul, associate editor of "The Norton Anthology of Children’s Literature" and professor of education at the University of New Brunswick. The three are holding the public lectures in addition to teaching a for-credit Charter Literature Institute titled "Virtue and Evil in Children’s Literature."

For more information on the lectures below, contact Penn State Professor of Education Dan Hade at (814) 865-2215 or mailto:ddh2@psu.edu.

Monday June 25 — Foster Auditorium in Pattee Library
3 p.m. "The Morality of Fantasy" — Lissa Paul

Tuesday June 26 — Foster Auditorium in Pattee Library
3 p.m. "Doubles: Spirit Visions in Scary Stories (from James Hogg to J.K. Rowling) — Marina Warner

Thursday June 28 — Foster Auditorium in Pattee Library
9 a.m. Telling the Good Guys from the Bad Guys — Lissa Paul
10:30 a.m. Daimons: Shape Shifters in Cosmic Myth (from Ovid to Philip Pullman) — Marina Warner

1:30 p.m. Fairy Tales as Dis-ease — Jack Zipes
3 p.m. Discussion and Questions

Contact: Jeff Deitrich, Coordinator of College Relations, Penn State College of Education at (814) 863-2216