JASNA-NY Regional Event Saturday, September 25, 2021 12 NOON ET – 2:00 PM ET In Conversation with Janet Todd and Gill Hornby Free Zoom Event Register HERE Janet Todd is an internationally renowned novelist and academic, best known for her non-fiction feminist works on women writers including Jane Austen, Aphra Behn and Mary […]
Landscapes as Political Documents: Art of Thomas Cole and the Hudson River School Speaker: Rena Tobey FREE ZOOM EVENT About this event Come explore 19th century American landscapes to reveal how American identity has been profoundly linked with the land. In this image-rich, interactive talk, we'll dig beyond the surface that creates a streamlined, but […]
Saturday, March 19, 2022 at 10:00 AM – 4:00 PM EDT SPEAKERS: Janine Barchas, Ph.D. "Hellfire Club" Amanda Foreman "The Georgians: a true age of sexual discovery" Alden O’Brien "Shocking Fashion" Elizabeth Veisz, Ph.D. "Gothic Scandal in the Periodical Press" For the safety of all, this will be an online (Zoom) meeting. Cost: […]
Please join us IN PERSON on Saturday, September 17, 2022 at 12 NOON at Connolly’s Pub & Restaurant (14 E 47th St, between Madison & 5th Avenues) Another Queering of Mansfield Park: Incest and Sodomy, Fanny and Tom, and a Little Speculation about Sir Thomas Registration Fee: $45.00 Includes lecture PLUS 4 course sit down lunch […]
JASNA-NY Regional Meeting and Biennial Elections Saturday, December 10, 2022 2 PM – 4:30 PM This will be a Hybrid Event You may join us in-person at the General Society of Mechanics and Tradesmen of the City of New York 20 West 44th Street in Manhattan (between 5th & 6th Aves) OR via Zoom Widow […]
JASNA New York Metropolitan Regional Meeting Date: Saturday, March 18, 2023 Time: 2:00 PM to 4:30 PM Place: Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church, 7 West 55th Street, Manhattan Arenas of Pleasure: Jane Austen, Sex, and Romance The topic of sex in Jane Austen’s novels is a powder keg that ignites furious debate among her […]
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 […]
An Intimate Look at Jane Austen’s Wardrobe Hilary Davidson, PhD Professor, Fashion Institute of Technology Saturday, December 16, 2023 2:00-4:30 PM The Kosciuszko Foundation House 15 East 65th Street (between Madison and Fifth Avenues) New York, New York Happy 248th birthday, dear Jane Austen! Come celebrate and hear renowned dress historian and Austen expert Hilary […]
Travel, travel―we have so missed traveling! Did Jane Austen and her contemporaries travel business or first class? Certainly not coach class for our Jane―but perhaps a very different kind of coach! Please join us when JASNA member, Julie Klassen, award-winning novelist and an expert on Regency travel, presents highlights from her research―types of coaches, their […]
The next meeting of the Jane Austen Society of North America New York Metropolitan region is scheduled for Saturday, May 11 at 2:00 PM Eastern US time. We'll be gathering in the elegant and accessible Regina Peruggi room at Marymount Manhattan College (221 East 71st Street) for a pair of presentations on Jane Austen's world. […]