Meetings and Events

Tuesday, January 21, 2025 | 7:00 PM EST

FOUR-SESSION ONLINE STUDY GROUP: MANSFIELD PARK

Sarah Rose Kearns leads a leisurely, in-depth exploration of Austen’s most controversial novel over the course of four successive Tuesdays in January and February. Discussions are held via Zoom; the series is organized through Meetup.com’s Jane Austen Book Club NYC. First time Austen readers particularly welcome! Click here for more.

(Non-JASNA event, open to everyone.)

Wednesday, January 22, 2025 | 6:30 PM EST

JASNA-NYM WINTER MEETING WITH CURT DICAMILLO

Perhaps no novelist inspired the idealized vision of the English country house more than Jane Austen. Through her sublime writing we are left with romantic images of great houses set in gorgeous landscapes. The reality is that Jane Austen herself visited many of the great houses of England and used them as models in almost all of her books. This lecture will examine country houses that inspired Jane and left us with a fanciful world of English rural beauty unequaled in literature.

Please click here to register and join us on January 22nd!

(JASNA-NYM event, open to everyone.)

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.)

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.)

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.)

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.)

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.

(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.)