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2010 JASA ANNUAL (DAY) CONFERENCE 

Sat 2 July 2011
Epping Club, 45 Rawson St, Epping, Sydney, NSW

10:00am - 4:00pm
$80 members, $90 non members

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Program (final program subject to change)

Please note: doors open at 9.00 am, with tea and coffee available.

• Welcome - Susannah Fullerton
• 10.00 - 10.30am: "Sense and Sensibility from a Novelist's Point of View" - Tegan Bennett-Daylight
• 10.30 - 11.30am: "Dashwood Celebrity" - Dr Janine Barchas
• 11.30-12.00noon: Morning tea
• 12noon - 1.00pm: “The Marriages of Sense and Sensibility" - Hazel Jones
• 1.00 - 1.30pm: 'The 1981 BBC mini-series" - Ruth Williamson
• 1.30 - 2.30pm: Lunch
• 2.30 - 3.00pm: "The 1995 Ang Lee film version" - Teresa Grace
• 3.00 - 3.30pm: 'The 2008 BBC Andrew Davies mini-series" - Barbara Primrose
• 3.30 - 3.55pm: "The Sense and Sensibilities of Cover Art" - Dr Janine Barchas
• 3.55 - 4.00pm: Thanks and close.

Sat 26 September 2009

JASA ANNUAL (DAY) CONFERENCE 
for the 200th anniversary of the Austens’ arrival in Chawton.
Jane Austen and Chawton, 

Epping Club, 
45 Rawson St
Epping, Sydney
www.eppingclub.com.au 

$70 members, $80 non-members
10:00am - 4:30pm

Keynote speaker: Dr Gillian Dow, Director, Chawton House Study Centre

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Programme

10.00 -10.10 am :: Welcome - Susannah Fullerton
10.10 - 11.10 am :: Chawton 1809-2009: Austen's Return to a Hampshire Village - Gillian Dow
11.10 - 11.30 am :: Chawton Church - Paul Henningham
11.30 am - 12.00 noon :: Morning tea
12.00 noon - 1.00 pm :: Chawton Cottage - the Interior - Sybille Burkart
1.00 - 1.20 pm :: Chawton Cottage - the Garden - Dianne Speakman
1.20 - 2.20 pm :: Lunch
2.20 - 3.20 pm :: Jane Austen's reading aaand the 18th Century Writer - Gillian Dow
3.20 - 3.40 pm :: Jane Austen's Neighbours at Chawton - Catherine Barker
3.40 - 4.00 pm :: Conclusion and thanks

This year’s day conference (Saturday 26 September 2009) celebrates the 200th anniversary of Jane Austen’s move to Chawton. There she revised her earlier work and wrote three new novels. It was from Chawton that they were all sent out into the world, it was at Chawton that she received her ‘darling children’ from London. Chawton was her beloved home from 1809 until the last two months of her life in 1817.

We are very fortunate in having the Director of Chawton House Study Centre, Dr Gillian Dow, as our keynote speaker. Dr Dow will tell us about the

‘Great House’ and its importance to Jane Austen, but also about Chawton since Jane Austen’s death. The lovely old house that belonged to her brother Edward is now a superb study centre for early women writers. Restored in house and garden, stocked with rare books, the house now welcomes scholars from around the world who can work there on Jane Austen and her contemporaries. It should be wonderful to hear about this unique place, a marvellous tribute to Jane Austen.

Other aspects of Chawton will be discussed throughout the day:

• We will learn about the church where Jane worshipped, where her brother Henry preached sermons and where her mother and sister lie buried.

• We will be taken on a guided tour of Chawton Cottage and garden, now the Jane Austen museum and a shrine to Janeites from around the world.

• We will find out about Jane Austen’s neighbours who made up her little social round.

Join us to celebrate this important place in Jane Austen’s life. Book early!

Susannah Fullerton

<< Read about this year's conference

Every second year the JASA annual conference is held over a weekend in the country. In other years it is a day conference held in Sydney.

Annual (day) Conference 2007

Saturday 1 September 2007 JASA DAY CONFERENCE Jane Austen at the Movies Northside Convention Centre Artarmon , Sydney 10.00 am to 4.45 pm Cost: JASA members $80 ~ non-members $90 Book now! Please note the change of topic, date and venue for this conference from those previously advertised.

Conference brochure & booking form available as PDF 2007JASAconference.pdf 436kb

• Conference Centre opens at 9.00am for registration. Tea and coffee will be available. 
• Conference commences promptly at 10.00am. Conclusion 4.45pm 
• Those arriving late may not be admitted to the Auditorium until a suitable break in the proceedings.

Program

STOP PRESS: In a coup for JASA, actress Elizabeth Garvie - Elizabeth Bennet in the 1980 BBC Pride and Prejudice - will be a speaker at the conference.

Jon Spence on Becoming Jane, the movie, derived from his Austen biography Becoming Jane Austen 

Gina and Andrew Macdonald, US academics on Jane Austen on Screen, based on their acclaimed book of the same name 

A Critics Panel, moderated by Arts Personality and reviewer Andrea Stretton, including panellists such as social anthropologist and author David Dale, and award-winning novelist Susanne Gervay.

Annual (weekend) Conference 2006

Mansfield Park: The Controversial Novel?
Friday 5 - Sunday 7 May 2006
Monte Pio Country Comfort Hotel
New England Highway, Rutherford (Maitland), Hunter Valley, NSW

Annual (day) Conference 2005

Jane Austen's Men
Saturday 23 July 2005
10.00am-4.00pm
Maritime Museum, Sydney, NSW

Programme

10.00 - 10.15 
Welcome - Susannah Fullerton
10.15 - 11.15 
Constructing Masculinity: Knighthood, St George, and the Dandy in Emma - Prof. Joseph Kestner
11.15 - 11.30 
Introducing Mr Henry Tilney - Harriet Veitch
11.30 - 12.00 
Morning Tea
12.00 - 12.15 
Introducing Mr Woodhouse - Susannah Fullerton
12.15 - 1.15 
Jane Austen’s Brother Abroad: The Grand Tour Journals of Edward Austen - Dr Jon Spence
1.15 - 1.30 
Introducing Colonel Brandon - Robyn Williams
1.30 - 2.30 
Lunch
2.30 - 3.30 
The Men in the Background - Pamela Whalan
3.30 - 3.45 
Introducing Lieutenant William Price - Prof Joseph Kestner
3.45 - 4.00 
Thanking speakers - Marlene Arditto

2004 - weekend conference

Theme - Pride and Prejudice: The Favourite Novel?

Friday 23 to Sunday 25 July 2004
Country Comfort Monte Pio Motel
New England Highway, Rutherford, outside Maitland NSW

Maitland is 2 hours drive from Sydney and easily reached by car or train.

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Friday 23 July

4.00 pm: Conference registration begins

6.00 - 8.00 pm: Dinner

8.30 pm: 'Get to Know Our Speakers' Session

Saturday 24 July

7.00 am - 9.30 am: Breakfast

10.00 am - 11.00 am: 'An Essay on Writing, a critique on Walter Scott, or the history of Buonaparte': What was Jane Austen thinking of?' - Jocelyn Harris

11.00 am - 11.30 am: Morning tea

11.30 am - 12.15 pm: Little Things Mean a Lot; or, Why our Tenth Re-reading of Pride and Prejudice still surprises us -
Joan Ray
12.15 pm - 1.15 pm: Pride, Romance, Prejudice, Comedy - Iain Topliss

1.15 pm - 2.15 pm Lunch

2.15 pm - 3.15 pm: English Nationalism and Masculinity in Pride and Prejudice -  Sarah Ailwood

3.15 pm - 5.30 pm: Free Time
5.30 pm - 6.00 pm: Drinks

6.00 pm - 7.00 pm: Pre-dinner entertainment - William Phillips

7.30 pm Dinner

Sunday 25 July

7.00 am - 9.30 am: Breakfast

10.00 am - 10.30 am: Elizabeth Bennet and Bridget Jones: Does Jane Austen Need Updating? - Iain Topliss
10.30 am -11.00 am: Opening Pride and Prejudice - Jocelyn Harris

11.00 am - 11.30 am Morning Tea

11.30 am - 12.20 pm Not Just Another Pretty Face: Why we Love Jane Austen - Joan Ray
12.20 pm - 1.15 pm Presentation of Quiz Prize, Questions to Speakers, Thank yous and Closing of Conference

1.15 pm - 2.15 pm Lunch

2003 - day conference

Theme:  Jane Austen and Happiness

Saturday 19 July 2003, Maritime Museum, Darling Harbour, Sydney.
$65 per person (includes morning tea and lunch)

Program

10.15 am - 11.15 am
Jane Austen and Happiness - Robin Grove

11.15 am - 11.45 am
Morning tea

11.45 am - 12.50 pm
Bring in the Clown: The Comedic Monologues and Dialogues of Austen's Fiction, or How Austen Keeps her Audience Laughing - Laurie Kaplan

12.55 pm - 2.00 pm
Land Reform in Jane Austen's Time: Will Enclosure Make the Clergy Happy - Celia Easton

2.00 pm - 2.45 pm
Lunch

2.45 pm - 3.45 pm
Work(ing) Out a Happy Conclusion: Mansfield Park and the Comedy of King Lear - Susan Allen Ford

3.45 pm - 4.00 pm
Conclusion - Susannah Fullerton

Speakers

Robin Grove is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of English with Cultural Studies at the University of Melbourne. He co-edits one of Australia's longest running literary journals, The Critical Review, and has published extensively in Australia and abroad on topics ranging from Chaucer to Samuel Beckett. Originally trained as a musician, he is active in advocacy and performance of classical music, and in 2001 he received the Fullbright Award for International Dance Scholarship. 

Laurie Kaplan is the editor of JASNA's journal, Persuasions, and Professor of English at Goucher College. She is also a life member of JASNA, and co-author, with Nancy Magnuson, of 'Twenty-Five Years of Austen' on the extensive collection at Goucher.

Celia Easton became an Associate Professor of English at the State University of New York College at Geneseo after obtaining her MA and PhD at the University of Michigan. She is Regional Coordinator of the Rochester Chapter of JASNA. Her scholarship on Jane Austen includes Jane Austen's "Sense and Sensibility" and the Joke of Substitution and an essay on "Emma and Grandison" in Approaches to Teaching Jane Austen's Emma.

Susan Allen Ford is Professor of English, and Writing Centre Coordinator at Delta State University in Cleveland, Mississipi, where she teaches courses in British Literature, the gothic novel and detective fiction. She is a life member of JASNA and has presented at JASNA on Sanditon and Austen's use of Mme de Genlis' Adelaide and Theodore  in Emma.

2002: ‘With Regard to Education…’

Fri 19 – Sun 21 July 2002

Venue

‘Monte Pio’ Country Comfort Hotel, Maitland NSW
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The Country Comfort Monte Pio Hotel, in the Hunter Valley, is within 2 hours drive of Sydney and close to the vineyards and wineries of the region. The hotel is an historic building set in landscaped gardens.

Speakers

During the conference we will learn about the many intriguing aspects of education in Jane Austen’s novels, life, world and films. Once again, we will be welcoming distinguished speakers from overseas:

• Devoney Looser, author of British Women Writers and the Writing of History, 1670-1820, editor of Jane Austen and the Discourses of Feminism, member of the executive board of JASNA and assistant professor of English at Louisiana State University.
• George Justice, book review editor of JASNA News, author of The Manufacturers of Literature: Writing and the Literary Marketplace in, Eighteenth-Century England and assistant professor of English at University of Missouri-Columbia
• William Phillips, professor in the Department of British/American Studies, Aichi Prefectural University, Japan, author of Fanny Price as Doppelganger, Clueless and Otherwise, A Jane by any other Name and other articles concerning the film versions of Jane Austen’s novels.

And from closer to home we welcome:

• Dr William Christie, senior lecturer in English at the University of Sydney, President of the Dylan Thomas Society of Australia, editor of the journal Literature and Aesthetics and member of JASA.

Program

2001: Jane Austen & Love

Saturday 14 July 2001
10am to 4pm
Morning tea and lunch provided.
$55 per person (includes morning tea & lunch)
National Maritime Museum, Darling Harbour, Sydney.

Papers presented at the conference are reproduced in the December 2001 issue of JASA's journal Sensibilities – see JASA Sensibilities, List of Articles.

Program

10.00 Welcome

10.05 – 11.00 ‘The Doctor is In’; or Jane Austen’s Male Lovers Change from Boys to Men to Boys
Prof. Joan Ray, University of Colorado,
President of JASNA

11.00 - 11.30 Morning Tea

11.30 - 12.15 The Costly Pleasures of Adultery
Susannah Fullerton, President of JASA

12.15 - 1.15 Falling in Love with Jane: Interrogating the Pleasures of Being an Austen Fan
Dr Bridget Rooney, University of Sydney

1.15 - 2.15 Lunch

2.15 - 3.15 Cupid, Candlelight, Castellani and Cartier: Creating Love Jewellery
Carolyn McDowall,
Academy of Design and Decorative Arts

3.15 - 3.45 Loving Jane Austen in America
Prof. Joan Ray, University of Colorado,
President of JASNA

3.45 - 4.00 Thanking of speakers and closing of conference

2000 - Jane Austen & Elegance

28-30 July, Mercure Resort, Leura, NSW

Papers presented at the conference are reproduced in the December 1999 issue of JASA's journal Sensibilities. You can read online Extracts from these papers.

Program:

Welcome from the President.
‘Get to know our speakers’ session -
Susannah Fullerton, Anne Harbers

Saturday 29 July

7.00 - 9.30 Breakfast
10.00 - 11.00 ‘In Search of Elegance’ - Yvette Field
11.00 - 11.30 Morning Tea
11.30 - 12.30 ‘Eating and Entertaining with Elegance’ - Maggie Lane
12.30 - 1.30 ‘Not so refined as she ought to have been’: Was Jane Austen Elegant?’ - Douglas Murray
1.30 - 2.30 Lunch
2.30 - 4.00 ‘The Elegance of Wedgwood’ - Alan Landis - (Illustrated with slides)
4.00 - 7.00 Afternoon Tea, then free time to relax or explore the Blue Mountains
7.00 - 8.30 Dinner
8.30 - 9.30 ‘Jane Austen: Poetry with some Prejudice’ by Pat Shepherd

Sunday 30 July

7.00 - 9.30 Breakfast
10.00 - 11.00 ‘Jane Austen and the Spectacles of Life’ - Douglas Murray
11.00 - 11.30 Morning Tea
11.30 - 12.30 ‘Bath: The Epitome of Elegance?’ - Maggie Lane
12.30 - 1.00 Presentation of the Quiz Prize - Closing of Conference
1.00 - 2.00 Lunch, followed by departure

1999 - Northanger Abbey

31 July, Australian National Maritime Museum, Darling Harbour, Sydney, NSW.

Papers presented at the conference are reproduced in the current issue (December 1999) of JASA's journal Sensibilities. You can read online Extracts from these papers.

Program

• Introduction: Susannah Fullerton (President, JASA)
• ‘Desperately Seeking Susan’: Dr Jon Spence

Morning Tea

• ‘Landscape in Northanger Abbey’: Dr Christine Alexander 
• ‘Northanger Abbey - The Gothic and the Real’: Dr Alan Dilnot:

Lunch

• 'The Furniture of Northanger Abbey’: Mr Julian Bickersteth
• ‘Northanger Abbey and The Gothic Theatre’: Dr Penny Gay:
• Questions from the audience, and discussion: panel of all speakers: 

1998 - Jane Austen's Families

11-13 September, the Ibis Resort, Leura, in the Blue Mountains. Over 100 JASA members and guests attended. Members Patrick Wilson and Yvette Field give the local version of the Conference, and Tom Hoberg an international view in the December 98 issue of JASA News.

Papers presented at the conference are reproduced in the December 1998 issue of JASA's journal Sensibilities – see JASA Sensibilities, List of Articles.

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