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.

  • Political Blackness in “The Woman of Colour”

    Online: Zoom

    In this talk, Professor Lyndon Dominique (Lehigh University) will be discussing the 1808 novel, The Woman of Colour, which Broadview Press calls “a unique literary account of a black heiress’ […]

  • Jane Austen Day 2021: Mariners and Memoirs

    Online: Zoom

    Our morning speaker will be Gordon Laco, who served as Lead Technical Advisor and Historic Consultant for over 60 projects including the feature film Master and Commander:  The Far Side […]

  • Jane Austen’s French Connection

    Online

    JASNA NY and JASNA NJ present a two-day event focused on Jane Austen's French connections. It leverages Bordentown, where the Bonaparte family emigrated after the Napoleonic war. Program details, schedule, […]

    $25 – $55
  • JASNA CWNY April Meeting

    Online: Zoom

    Topic: "Mansfield Park and the Sacred Landscape" A talk by Roger E. Moore, Associate Dean and Principal Senior Lecturer in English at Vanderbilt University Pre-registration is required; see the event link for […]

  • JASNA–GL April Monthly Meeting

    Online: Zoom

    Join us for our April 2021 JASNA-GL meeting! “...the best friend of those engaged in literary pursuits”: A History of Chocolate in Georgian and Regency England” presented by Amanda Beverly.

  • 4th Annual Jane Austen Tea & Faire

    Aurora American Legion Post 110 21510 Main Street NE, Aurora, Oregon, United States

    Spend a beautiful Spring weekend in celebration of the beloved author and her Regency world at event full of fun, lively and engaging presentations, author readings, demonstrations, vendors, tea and […]

  • Books over Brunch

    Online: Zoom

    Join authors Lauren Burke, Hannah Jerry Chapman (Why She Wrote), and Andrea Kayne (Kicking Ass in a Corset: Jane Austen’s Six Principles for Living and Leading from the Inside Out) chat […]

  • Treasures Afoot: Shoe Stories from the Georgian Era

    Kimberly Alexander, PhD, is on the faculty of the History Department of the University of New Hampshire, where she is director of the museum studies program and a lecturer. Her […]

  • The Black Woman and Nineteenth Century Studies

    Online: Zoom

    Black and mixed-race women in nineteenth-century Britain were represented in fiction, drama and high and low art. However the reality of their actual presence couldn’t be more different from these […]

  • Jane Austen’s “Persuasion” Song Cycle

    Online

    What did we do on our CoVid quarantine vacation? With a baseline of Beethoven’s glorious chamber music, director/lyricist Emily King created a series of 9 songs which capture, each in […]

    $15
  • #VirtualJaneCon 2021

    Online

    All Jane Austen. All the time*. *Or just for one weekend. It’s time for Virtual Jane Con again! That means fun, fandom and flailing (but no fainting!). This year’s festivities […]

  • Teaching Jane Austen and Diversity

    Online: Zoom

    Juliette Wells (Goucher College) is giving a special talk on practical strategies for engaging diverse young readers with Austen and encouraging productive conversations about hot-button topics. This event will be […]