Tuesday, January 23, 2024

Buffalo Area JASNA CWNY Book Discussion

Event: Buffalo area JASNA CWNY Book Club Meeting

When: Saturday, January 27, 2024 at 1:30 PM Note Time Change

Where: Clarence Library Meting Room

Please Join us, here are the details:

There will be tea and biscuits. 
First 15 to arrive will receive a free Jane Austen book mark. 
The discussion will revolve around:
Turning a Beast into a Prince: Heroes and Villains in Austen's World
2 Books: 
Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
The Darcy Myth by Rachel Feder

Wednesday, January 3, 2024

Jane and Cassandra Austen Birthday Luncheon


 

Happy JANEuary
We are celebrating Jane and Cassandra Austen's Birthdays
on Saturday, January 20 2024

Register Now!
“How Happy are Austen’s ‘Happy Endings’?”
A talk by Inger Brodey, Associate Professor of English and
Comparative Literature at the University of North Carolina

Saturday, January 20, 2024
10:30 am - 2:00 pm EST

In Person at The Highlands At Pittsford
100 Hahnemann Trail, Pittsford, NY 14534

Pre-registration and pre-payment required.
You can register and pay by clicking HERE
Registration required by January 12


Professor Inger S. B. Brodey is a lifelong Janeite and well-known Austen scholar. She has served on the JASNA Board of Directors, and as a JASNA Traveling Lecturer. She has twice been the JASNA North American plenary lecturer at AGMs, and she has given AGM breakout sessions on a variety of topics. She also serves on the editorial board of Persuasions.

At the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, she has won several campus-wide teaching awards for classes that include “Studies in Jane Austen,” a first-year seminar on “Jane Austen Then and Now,” and “Global Jane Austen.” Her new book, Jane Austen and the Price of Happiness, is coming out with Johns Hopkins University Press next month. She is also founder and director of the annual Jane Austen Summer Program, and co-host of the Jane Austen and Co. web series.