Announcing Our Next JASNA-NYM Regional Meeting
BECOMING LIEUTENANT PRICE AND CAPTAIN WENTWORTH
Charles Austen’s Naval Career and Its Connection to Mansfield Park and Persuasion: Online Lecture by Historian Sheila Johnson Kindred
Saturday, March 8, 2025 at 12:00 PM Eastern via Zoom
Jane About Town
FEBRUARY 2025
Friday, February 7 to Sunday, February 23, 2025
SENSE AND SENSIBILITY AT YORKTOWN COMMUNITY PLAYERS
Westchester’s Yorktown Community Players present Kate Hamill’s celebrated stage adaptation of Sense and Sensibility. This production is directed by Jess Reed and takes place at The Unitarian Universalist Congregation of the Hudson Valley in Croton-on-Hudson. “When reputation is everything, how do you follow your heart?” Click here for more.
(Non-JASNA event, open to everyone.)
Saturday, February 8, 2025 | 12:00 PM EST
TEA AND SCANDAL WITH JANE AUSTEN AT HISTORIC KING MANOR
Free open house at Jamaica’s King Manor Museum, hosted by Georgie Castilla, Elise Pallay, Lena Yasutake, and Sarah Rose Kearns. An afternoon of crafting and community: drink tea, make Regency-style valentines, and a take part in a marathon reading of Lady Susan. Austen-era costumes are admired but not required! Click here for more.
(Non-JASNA event, open to everyone.)
Thursday, February 13, 2025 | 7:00 PM EST
GRAMERCY JANE AUSTEN BOOK CLUB: LADY SUSAN
Elise Pallay leads a discussion of Jane Austen’s scandalous novella, organized through Meetup.com’s Jane Austen Meetup NYC. Participants converse over a meal: the venue is a classic New York diner on Third Ave and 17th Street. Click here for more.
(Non-JASNA event, open to everyone.)
Tuesday, February 18, 2025 | 7:00 PM EST
JANE AUSTEN’S BOOKSHELF: BOOK LAUNCH AT THE STRAND
Rare book dealer Rebecca Romney investigates the disappearance of Austen’s heroes — women writers who were erased from the Western canon — to reveal who they were, what they meant to Austen, and how they were forgotten. Click here for more.
(Non-JASNA event, open to everyone.)
Thursday, February 20, 2025 | 7:00 PM EST
JASNA-NYM MONTHLY ONLINE DISCUSSION GROUP
Our monthly Zoom-based conversation on an essay, book, or particular aspect of Austen’s novels. Topic and questions to ponder will be sent out in advance. Please email us if you’d like to be added to the Discussion Group invite list!
(JASNA-NYM event, open to all JASNA members.)
MARCH 2025
Thursday, March 6, 2025 | 7:30 PM EST
“COMPLETE WORKS” PLAYWRIGHTS AT THE DRAMA BOOKSHOP
The legendary theatre-district bookstore hosts a Q&A and signing with the co-authors of The Complete Works of Jane Austen, Abridged, Jessica Bedford, Kathryn MacMillan, Charlotte Northeast, and Meghan Winch. JASNA-NYM members will recall Charlotte Northeast’s star turn in The Complete Works at our fall meeting in 2024. Click here for more.
(Non-JASNA event, open to everyone.)
Saturday, March 8, 2025 | 12:00 PM EST
SAVE THE DATE: JASNA-NYM PRE-SPRING ZOOM MEETING
Historian Sheila Johnson Kindred will join us virtually to share some of her research on Jane Austen’s sailor brothers. Details and registration coming soon.
(JASNA-NYM event, open to everyone.)
Thursday, March 20, 2025 | 7:00 PM EDT
JASNA-NYM MONTHLY ONLINE DISCUSSION GROUP
Our monthly Zoom-based conversation on an essay, book, or particular aspect of Austen’s novels. Topic and questions to ponder will be sent out in advance. Please email us if you’d like to be added to the Discussion Group invite list!
(JASNA-NYM event, open to all JASNA members.)
Thursday, March 20, 2025 | 7:00 PM EDT
A CELEBRATION OF JANE AUSTEN AT 92Y
Join writers and critics Jennifer Egan, Kevin Kwan, Helen Fielding, Vivian Gornick, and Alexandra Schwartz for an evening of conversation about Jane Austen in honor of Jane’s 250th anniversary. Hear this distinguished group of panellists reflect on how Austen has remained in the cultural bloodstream for so long, her influence on their own work, and much more. Click here for more.
(Non-JASNA event, open to everyone.)
April 2025
Saturday, April 19, 2025 | 5:30 PM EST
THE BALL THAT NEVER HAPPENED: GALA FOR THE HOLY THEATRE
Please save the date for a Regency-style dance, to be held in elegant wood-panelled ballroom in Prospect Heights, Brooklyn. Details to follow.
(Non-JASNA event, open to everyone.)
MAY 2025
Saturday, May 4, 2025 | TBD
JASNA-NYM SPRING MEETING
Please save the date for the JASNA New York Metropolitan Region spring meeting! Our featured speakers will be announced quite soon!
(JASNA-NYM event, open to everyone.)
JUNE 2025
Monday, June 9 to Sunday, September 14, 2025
A LIVELY MIND: SPECIAL EXHIBITION AT THE MORGAN
JASNA’s own Dr. Juliette Wells (who addressed our New York Metropolitan Region in the fall of 2024) serves as guest co-curator for A Lively Mind: a once-in-a-lifetime celebration of Jane Austen’s genius at The Morgan Library and Museum, featuring the largest collections of Austen family treasures ever displayed on this side of the Atlantic. Click here for more.
(Non-JASNA event, open to everyone.)
Do you have an Austen event coming up? Drop us a line and let us know! In these listings, we tend to prioritize in-person gatherings in and near New York City, as well as online events that involve our local JASNA members. (Click here to become a member of JASNA New York Metro.)
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