October 15: two-part program on Persuasion

Sunday, October 15, at 2:00pm

The National Opera Center

Please join us for a two-part program on Persuasion, Jane Austen’s exquisite final novel.

Part 1 is “Living with Care in Persuasion” — a talk by Dr. Talia Schaffer of Queens College and the CUNY Graduate Center, in which she’ll share her reading of Austen’s novel through the lens of the ethics of caregiving, inspired by material from her book, Communities of Care: The Social Ethics of Victorian Fiction (Princeton University Press, 2021).

This will be followed by a short “intermission” with VERY light refreshments, so that we can stretch our legs and chat a bit, before reconvening.

Part 2, “The Pen in Their Hands,” is a panel discussion featuring three adaptors of Persuasion in different media: filmmaker Zoe Hodge, novelist Noreen Mughees, and Sarah Rose Kearns, playwright. This discussion will be moderated by Dr. Sayantani DasGupta — professor of narrative medicine at Columbia University and author of two delightful Austen retellings of her own.

Registration starts at $35.

We expect the meeting to wrap up between 4:15 and 4:30, after which, you are welcome to join us for further conversation at Le Pain Quotidien across the street.

Register through Eventbrite.