Our calendar features a wide range of in-person and online programs, including talks, exhibits, tours, discussions, and more. We also highlight events of interest from the broader Jane Austen and Regency world. All event times reflect the organizers’ local time zones. JASNA regional events are additionally listed on the main JASNA web site.
To submit an event for the calendar, kindly email news@jasnanorcal.org.
For our May reading group, we're discussing a new anthology of Austen-inspired short stories that the publisher describes as "just as much a whimsical travelogue as an anthology of excellent Regency […]
Conduct literature refers to texts that instruct and inform and give guidance on basic etiquette, and larger matters of religion and intellectual life. The primary concern of such works was […]
Join our discussion of Death Comes to Pemberley. "P. D. James, long among the most admired mystery writers of our time, draws the characters of Jane Austen’s beloved novel Pride […]
Jane Austen in 41 Objects is Professor Kathryn Sutherland’s attempt to address a paradox: of all writers Jane Austen is among those very few that we most ardently wish to […]
What do Austen’s novels tell us about attitudes towards rakishness? This talk will consider Austen’s most famous rakish figures—John Willoughby, Henry Crawford, and George Wickham—and explore each novel’s narrative handling […]