Jane Austen Society of North America, Southwest (JASNA-SW)
JASNA-SW Events & MoreComing Up
Join your fellow Janeites at the 2012 LA Times Festival of Books where JASNA Southwest will have a booth again this year. If you would like to help out at the booth, please email Lynda Hall.
Save the date 19 May 2012 for a seaside holiday with Jane Austen at the Annenberg Community Beach House in Santa Monica.
Events Gone By
On Saturday, 3 December 2011, we learned about Regency women's health issues at the Los Angeles Athletic Club.
Our first-ever super-regional weekend at the Huntington Gardens & Library and the Westin Pasadena was a spectacular success. Click on the title above for a photo recap.
Our first-ever JASNA-SW booth at the Festival was a resounding success. Please click on the title above for photos.
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JASNA members were treated to a sneak preview of the film about Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire. Click on the title above to see a trailer of the movie.
"Silver Forks, Golden Memories, and Library Treasures." Featured talk: Ed Copeland on Silver Fork Novels.
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Domestic Entertainments in Jane Austen's Time
History
Diana Birchall and People take us on a nostalgic journey.
In Memoriam
Sundries
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Super Regional Gala Spring Meeting: "Sense and Sensibility: Jane Austen’s Problem Child?" May 14 & 15, 2011
On May 14 and 15, 2011, Janeites from all over the country gathered at the lovely Huntington Gardens and Library, and the Westin Pasadena Hotel, to celebrate the 200th anniversary of the publication of Jane Austen's first published novel, SENSE AND SENSIBILITY. WHERE:The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens & The Westin Pasadena Hotel 
Photo by Diana Birchall
Photo by Laurie Viera Rigler
PETER GRAHAM, Professor of English at Virginia Tech and author of Jane Austen & Charles Darwin: Naturalists and Novelists, talked about how nature and nurture interact to produce variation in the character development of the various sibling groups portrayed in Sense and Sensibility. JOAN KLINGEL RAY, Professor of English and President’s Teaching Scholar at the University of Colorado, Colorado Springs, President of the North American Friends of Chawton House Library, past president of JASNA national, and the author of Jane Austen for Dummies, had much to say about what makes SENSE AND SENSIBILITY “Jane Austen’s Most Problematic Novel.” MARY ROBERTSON, the William A. Moffett Curator of British History at The Huntington Library, gave us an inside look at the decisions and dilemmas involved in preparing the special exhibition, "Revisiting the Regency: England, 1811-1820,” on display in the Library’s West Hall during the time of our symposium. 
Our room in the Friends Hall at the Huntington was packed for our Saturday speakers, Joan Klingel Ray, Peter Graham, and Mary Robertson. 
"The Prince of Whales" by George Cruikshank, 1812. Photo by Diana Birchall
Photo by Diana Birchall
Photo by Jameson Yu
On Saturday night, after gathering in Pasadena restaurants for dinner, many of us reconvened at our conference hotel, the Westin Pasadena, for "An Evening of Frivolous Pleasure," featuring English country dancing to a live band. The wonderful Judee Provonost taught and called the dances. 
Photo by Laurie Viera Rigler
Photo by Laurie Viera Rigler
Photo by Laurie Viera Rigler.
Photo by Jameson Yu
RUTH BLANDÓN, Assistant Professor of English at East Los Angeles College, and ALICE VILLASEÑOR, Director of Public Humanities Initiatives for USC’s Joint Educational Project and recent visiting fellow at the Chawton House Library, highlighted the transcultural feminist issues in Kandukodain Kandukondain, a little known Bollywood adaptation of Sense and Sensibility, and touched upon other film adaptations, such as the recently-released From Prada to Nada. MELA HOYT-HEYDON, celebrated costume designer, milliner, make-up artist, and Resident Designer and Design Instructor at Fullerton College, demonstrated how to assemble Regency Era attire that would suit even the fastidious and elegant Beau Brummell. CLARISSA ESGUERRA, Curatorial Assistant of Costumes and Textiles at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, discussed LACMA’s stunning exhibit, “Fashioning Fashion: European Dress in Detail, 1700-1915,” and the sartorial sense and sensibilities of Jane Austen’s World. 
Photo by Laurie Viera Rigler
Photo by Jameson Yu
We finally learned how to tie a cravat, as demonstrated by a member of Mela's team. 
Photo by Laurie Viera Rigler
One of Mela's elegantly attired male models giving the audience a chance to see the clothes up close. 
Photo by Laurie Viera Rigler
Membership Information for JASNA and JASNA-SW: The Jane Austen Society of North America (JASNA) is is a nonprofit organization staffed by volunteers, with approximately 4,000 members and over 60 regional groups in the United States and Canada. Its members, who are of all ages and from diverse walks of life, share an enjoyment of Austen’s fiction and the company of like-minded readers. Benefits of Membership include a subscription to the society’s newsletter, JASNA News, which carries book reviews, news from JASNA regions, and feature articles; Persuasions, JASNA’s annual journal, a preeminent source for Austen studies, with essays from the Annual General Meeting (AGM) and scholarly articles; an invitation to attend the AGM, a three-day conference with an Austen theme held each autumn in a different North American city, featuring speakers, entertainment, tours, banquet, and Regency ball; the opportunity to join one of the more than 60 JASNA regional groups in the United States and Canada, which host lectures, book discussions, teas, and a celebration of Austen’s birthday, December 16; and participation in members-only tours to England, organized and led by professionals with special access to Austen sites. JASNA’s membership year runs from September 1 to August 31. Dues are $30 for individuals, $18 for students. For family or lifetime rates, or to download a membership form, visit JASNA.org, or email Membership Secretary Bobbie Gay, or contact her at 7230 N. San Blas Dr., Tucson, AS 85704-3135. The Jane Austen Society Southwest (JASNA-SW) is an official region of The Jane Austen Society of North America and includes Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside and Ventura Counties. Benefits of Membership include our own JASNA Southwest Newsletter, reduced rates for SW events, and the opportunity to join one of our many Reading Groups. Your dues also enable us to bring prominent and engaging Jane Austen scholars to Los Angeles from throughout the United States, and allow us to encourage young Jane Austen readers through our new Student Outreach program. The membership year runs from January 1 to December 31. Dues are $15. To join, please click on the JOIN JASNA-SW tab above for online payments, or you may mail your dues to Carla Washburn, Membership Chairperson; P.O. Box 612; Tujunga, CA 91043. |
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