This events calendar is meant to socially enrich our DJABC community wherever members may find themselves. We will gladly share any Jane Austen related event here. We may also share events that may appeal to darker interests as we see fit.
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The Institute of English Studies School of Advanced Study University of London will be hosting a one day conference on Jane Austen’s Men.
Speakers:
‘The armed forces’: Alan Turton (formerly Custodian, Basing House)
‘Jane Austen and the male mind’: Professor Richard Jenkyns (Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford)
‘Jane Austen’s clergymen’: Gavin Turner (formerly Chairman, Jane Austen Bath and Bristol Group)
‘Jane Austen’s men: the marriage market and the changing fortunes of the landed class’: Dr Robert Clark (Editor, The Literary Encyclopedia, formerly UEA).
*Please make cheques payable to “University of London”. Please register by Monday 11 February 2013.
To celebrate the bicentenary of the publication of Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice, set in Hertfordshire, the University of Hertfordshire is hosting an interdisciplinary conference to consider the ‘locations of Austen’.
Invited speakers attending this conference include:
Robert Clark (University of East Anglia)
Elizabeth Kowaleski-Wallace (Boston College)
James Thompson (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
Emma Clery (University of Southampton)