Thursday, June 10, 7 pm. Fourth Anuual "Janies" Awards. Contact Sarah Rose Kearns at rose@janeaustenspersuasion.com on how to attend. Please click on the link for previous year results 2020 Janies Q but not the A 2019 Janies results
This talk compares how Black figures in portraits and paintings are attired and positioned in pre-abolition paintings to how artists rendered them in response to the atrocities highlighted by the anti-sugar campaigns. It discusses paintings like Louise de Kéroualle, Duchess of Portsmouth’s portrait with a Black child, the now famous portrait of Lord Mansfield’s nieces Dido and Elizabeth, and W. Pyott’s "The Benevolent Effects of Abolishing Slavery or the Planter Instructing his Negro". It will also show how Black contemporary artists like Peter Brathwaite’s and Titus Kaphar’s interpretations of pre-1900 paintings should be understood and celebrated as emancipatory acts.
Thursday, August 19 at 7 pm The focus is Mansfield Park and its connection to classic fairy tales. Specific questions will follow, as well as a short reading assignment. (Hint: don’t just focus on Fanny.) No group meeting in September. Thursday, October 28 at 7 pm (NB: fourth Thursday) “ ‘My sore-throats, you […]
JASNA-NY Regional Meeting Saturday, September 18, 2021 2 PM – 4:30 PM Uzma Jalaluddin “Ayesha At Last: Remixing Pride and Prejudice” Free Zoom Event Register HERE Uzma Jalaluddin, author of Ayesha At Last, will talk about her writerly motivations in pursuing a Pride and Prejudice retelling and what it means to reimagine classic texts from a […]
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 […]
Thursday November 18, at 7 pm Happily Ever After? We will speculate about the outcomes of the marriages that end Jane Austen’s novels. Read: “Poor Emma” by Reginald Hill. Thursday, January 20, 2022 at 7 pm In the Absence of the Heroine. Discussion of scenes in Austen’s novels where the heroine is not present (especially […]
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: […]
Sunday, June 12. (2 PM) - "How Do Jane Austen's Characters Look" and "What Makes Characters Blush?" Discussing of two chapters from John Mullan's book What Matters in Jane Austen. Thursday, July 21 (7 PM) - Austen and Us Discussing what has changed drastically in our daily lives since Austen's time. Are all the changes […]
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 […]