2020-2021 Meetings
These meetings were held between the fall of 2020 and the spring of 2021.
Sunday, September 15, 2019Sunday, September 13, 2020, 2pm
Event Venue: Zoom
Kim Wilson
Mrs. Elton's Party
...she would soon shew them how every thing ought to be arranged. In the course of the spring she must return their civilities
by one very superior party; in which her card tables should be set out with their separate candles and unbroken packs in
the true style, and more waiters engaged for the evening than their own establishment could furnish, to carry
round the refreshments at exactly the proper hour, and in the proper order.
Kim Wilson will explain what Mrs. Elton's "very superior party" would be like, and how we can replicate it at home in our modern kitchens. She is currently writing a book with that theme.
Kim's previous publications include "At Home With Jane Austen","Tea With Jane Austen", and "In The Garden With Jane Austen". You may recognize her work in creating the Jane Austen calendars we have sold for several years! She is the Regional Coordinator for the Wisconsin Region of JASNA.
Alden O'Brien
American Gothic: Architecture, Design, and Teenage Fangirls in Federal America
We will be viewing a recording of a presentation that was given at the 2019 AGM in Williamsburg, Virginia.
Catherine Morland's favorite genre was also popular with American audiences, and the Gothic style took root in
American architecture and decorative arts. We'll examine American teens' diaries; gothic style ceramics, textiles,
and jewelry; schoolgirl needlework; and other evidence of Americans' participation in the trend that captivated Catherine.
Alden O'Brien is curator of costume and textiles at the DAR Museum in Washington DC. She holds a BA in Art History from Barnard College
and a MA in Museum Studies: Costume and Textiles from FIT. She recently curated "An Agreeable Tyrant: Fashion after the Revolution" ,
which exhibited over 50 garments documenting Americans' response to European fashions 1780-1830. Alden specializes in linking fashion and textile history
to other decorative arts and cultural trends. Her most recent exhibit "A Piece of Her Mind: Culture and Technology in American Quilts"
includes a quilt with a Gothic-themed textile. She presented at JASNA AGMs in 2015 and 2016.
The video will be followed by an open discussion.
Sunday, December 6, 2020, 2pm
Event Venue: Zoom
Ty Burr, Film Critic and Columnist
The Jane Austen heroine as refracted through the movies
Ty Burr is the Boston Globe's film critic and cultural columnist. He has been at the paper since 2002. Prior to that, he wrote
for Entertainment Weekly and programmed movies for Home Box Office. Burr is the author of "Gods Like Us: On Movie Stardom
and Modern Fame" (2012), "The Best Old Movies for Families" (2007), and the e-book "The 50 Movie Starter Kit: What You
Need to Know if You Want to Know What You're Talking About" (2012). He is a member of the National Society of Film Critics
and the Boston Society of Film Critics. In 2017, he was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Criticism.
Ty will offer his reflections on Austen movie adaptations as well as non-Austen films that share her DNA, such as "I Know Where I'm Going".
Sunday, March 14, 2021, 2pm
Meeting Venue: ZOOM
Jane Austen Bingo!
Created by Lisa Brown,
Regional Coordinator of the Central & Western New York Region
Bingo cards have been created for each of Austen's six novels, plus Sanditon and Lady Susan.
The cards have randomized squares containing the names of characters, instead of numbers.
Once you register for the Zoom Call, we will send you a PDF file with your cards.
Players will print the bingo cards at home and join the Zoom call to play. Lisa will draw clues to the character name from a hat, players
mark off matching squares, and the player with a winning card displays it on the screen. You will need to be familiar with Jane Austen's characters!
We have bingo cards for 30 players, so registration will close once that number is reached.
Sunday, May 16, 2021, 2pm
Meeting Venue: ZOOM
Dr. Roger Moore
Northanger Before the Tilneys: Austen's Abbey and the Religious Past
Jane Austen was a savvy critic of the English Reformation. This talk explores Austen's deep engagement with the pre-Reformation past of Northanger Abbey and argues that she laments the sixteenth-century religious changes that made possible the Tilneys' ownership of the house. I put Austen's critiques of the Tilneys in conversation with similar works by Andrew Marvell and Edmund Burke. This presentation was the plenary lecture at the 2019 AGM in Williamsburg.
Roger E. Moore is associate dean of the College of Arts and Science and Principal Senior Lecturer in English at Vanderbilt University in Tennessee, where he has taught for 25 years. The author of Jane Austen and the Reformation: Remembering the Sacred Landscape (Routledge 2016), his scholarship focuses on the religious context of Austen's novels.
Roger Moore is the Harriet Avery Fund speaker for the 2020-2021 season.
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