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Jane Austen Society of AustraliaArchive - Annual Conference<< 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
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Program
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.
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Saturday 19 July 2003, Maritime
Museum, Darling Harbour, Sydney.
$65 per person (includes morning tea and lunch)
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
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.
‘Monte Pio’ Country Comfort Hotel,
Maitland NSW
Registration form and cost details available NOW.
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.
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:
And from closer to home we welcome:
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Friday 19 July 8.30 - 9.30pm
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Saturday 20 July 7.00 - 9.30 10.00 - 11.00 11.00 - 11.30 11.30 - 12.30 12.30 - 1.30 1.30 - 2.30 2.30 - 4.00 4.00 - 6.30 6.30 - 7.30 7.30 - 9.30 |
Sunday 21 July 7.00 - 9.30 10.00 - 11.00 11.00 - 11.30 11.30 - 12.30 12.30 - 1.30 1.30 - 2.30
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This program for our July Conference should whet the appetites of those who have not already booked! Some places are still available for this excellent conference, which promises to be at least as successful as our previous events – JASA conferences are always very special so BOOK NOW Overseas visitors from the US and Japan will join Will Christie and Penny Gay from Sydney University to inform and interest you. Penny will also be launching her Jane Austen and the Theatre at the Conference. Use the attached order form to book as soon as possible to avoid disappointment. Members are invited to dress in Regency attire for dinner and the book launch on Saturday – optional, of course! |
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2001: Jane Austen & LoveSaturday 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.
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
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.
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
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.
Morning Tea
Lunch
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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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.
Annual (weekend) Conference 2006
10.00 - 10.15 