Events Calendar

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.

  • Jane Austen at Home by Lucy Worsley

    Online

    Lucy Worsley paints a vivid picture of her favourite author, Jane Austen. Through the houses, places and possessions which mattered to her, Lucy takes a fascinating look at Jane Austen’s world, considers what home meant to Jane and to the women like her who populate her novels. Dispelling the myth of the cynical, lonely spinster, […]

  • Race and the Regency: Lord Mansfield and the Slave Ship Zong

    Online: Zoom

    Jane Austen & Co. presents our first talk in our 2021 series "Race and the Regency." In this talk, Professor Danielle Christmas (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) will discuss the historical connection between the Mansfield decision and Austen's novel, Mansfield Park.

  • Reading Jane Austen in the Pacific Northwest: “Perfect Happiness”

    Online: Zoom

    Join the seven JASNA regions in Oregon, Washington, Idaho, and British Columbia for a day of talks, games, and socializing! Keynote address: JASNA President Liz Philosophos Cooper, on "Jane Austen: Working Woman." Regional speakers: Regency Picnic Baskets, The East India Company, Victoria's 2022 AGM, Education of Young Women. Finale: Jane Austen Trivia! Registration is available at the event […]

  • Sanditon, Bridgerton, and David Copperfield: Modernizing the Representation of Black People in Eighteenth and Nineteenth-Century England

    Online: Zoom

    Professor Gretchen Holbrook Gerzina, author of Black London: Life before Emancipation, will speak on "Sanditon, Bridgerton, and David Copperfield: Modernizing the Representation of Black People in Eighteenth and Nineteenth-Century England" at the JASNA NY February regional meeting. All (members/non-members) are welcome to attend. Donations appreciated.Prof. Gerzina's webpage: https://gretchengerzina.com/about-gretchen-gerzina.html

  • Play: “Pride and Prejudice”

    Online

    Got any Valentine’s Day plans? Do you enjoy bingeing on Regency-era romance? We’re joining together with our friends at South Bay Musical Theatre to bring you a special performance of the lush and lovely Jane Austen classic, Pride and Prejudice. Running February 13 and 14, this “Will they or won’t they?” iconic rom-com play is […]

  • JASNA–GL February Monthly Meeting

    Online: Zoom

    Join us for our February 2021 JASNA-GL meeting! “Make a Regency Love Token for Your Valentine” presented by Eleanor Rust.

  • Jane Austen Love Fest

    Online: Zoom

    Join us for a bumper Valentine’s Day celebration of all things Jane Austen! With a fun and eclectic line up of talks, readings, music and games, this special online event will give you the chance to indulge your love of Jane Austen’s life and works, and to share them with fellow fans around the world.

  • Play: “Pride and Prejudice”

    Online

    Got any Valentine’s Day plans? Do you enjoy bingeing on Regency-era romance? We’re joining together with our friends at South Bay Musical Theatre to bring you a special performance of the lush and lovely Jane Austen classic, Pride and Prejudice. Running February 13 and 14, this “Will they or won’t they?” iconic rom-com play is […]

  • Remixing Pride and Prejudice: A Conversation with Author Ibi Zoboi

    Online: Zoom

    Jane Austen & Co. is happy to announce our second event in our 2021 series "Race and the Regency." Join us as we sit down for a chat with Ibi Zoboi, author of Pride (2018), a contemporary YA remix of Pride and Prejudice that is set to be adapted into an HBO series.

  • “Austen and Cassatt: Working From Home”

    Online: Zoom

    Using letter writing as the core activity of "work" for the educated and prosperous classes, art historian, curator and author Nancy Mowll Mathews will compare Austen and Cassatt's own work lives, their long-distance communications and how they represent women working from home in their art. As appropriate for our current remote work lives and use […]

  • JASNA CWNY February Meeting

    Online: Zoom

    Topic: Q&A on Unmarriageable with author Sonia Kamal Pre-registration is required; see the event link for info.

  • Q&A with Author Soniah Kamal

    Online: Zoom

    Join us for a Q&A session with the author of Unmarriageable, a witty modern retelling of Pride and Prejudice set in Pakistan.

  • Clergy in the novels of Jane Austen

    Online: Zoom

    To speak to us at this event, we are delighted to welcome our member David Richardson who will give a talk on clergy in the novels of Jane Austen. David will speak about the part that clergy play in the novels written by the daughter of a parson, and sister to two others. He will […]