[The following were taken from postings on AUSTEN-L.]
Date: Sat, 2 Sep 1995 14:24:22 -0400
From: Joyce Bromley and Joseph Wiesenfarth
For Jane Austen enthusiasts:
The 1995 JASNA (i.e. Jane Austen Society of North America) Conference
"Revisiting Mansfield Park"
will allow you to return to the era of Jane Austen and experience in its
fullness Mansfield Park. This
year's conference, to be held in Madison, Wisconsin, October 5-8, 1995, is a
well conceived program of lectures, readings, and other events that will make
exploring Jane Austen's Mansfield
Park a pleasure.
The Madison Concourse Hotel and Governor's Club will be the center for
"Revisiting Mansfield Park."
We begin with breakfast on Friday morning, followed by the opening reception
where the portrait of Jane Austen will be discussed. Christie's of New York
will bring the portrait of Jane Austen to
the conference where it will be displayed for the first time in North America.
This particular portrait has been in the Austen family for generations.
Emily Auerbach will discuss Jane Austen in the context of Auerbach's
program "The Courage to Write" and break-out sessions will follow. The Annual
General Meetings will be held on Friday afternoon. When evening falls, we
will again return to the ambiance of the Jane Austen period and
Mansfield Park.
On Friday evening the Regency Fair will provide us with a wide variety of
Jane Austen memorabilia. We cannot have an English fair without nuisances --
so kindly provide a few tuppence to the beggars and beware of the pickpockets.
Those at the conference who enjoy wearing Jane Austen period costumes will
feel very much at home.
Lovers' Vows the scandalous play that never reached fruition
in Mansfield Park will be
presented by the local chapter of Phi Beta (the Professional Fraternity for
the Creative and Performing Arts).
By the time you retire for the evening you will be solidly in the Jane
Austen and Mansfield Park
milieu, and Friday is only the beginning.
On Saturday you will enjoy two break-out sessions and two plenary speakers.
Middle-school and high-school students attending the conference may attend a
writing workshop where they will work with the authors who will be speaking at
the conference. Later that evening the authors at the conference will be
available at the Authors' Signature Reception where you can have them sign
their books. The Banquet completes the events for Saturday. At the Banquet,
Amanda Root will present dramatic readings from
Mansfield Park. You may recall
that Amanda Root is the actress who played Anne Elliot in
the BBC production of
Persuasion.
You will not want to miss Sunday where you may attend a Jane Austen period
church service. The Grace Episcopal Church is a national landmark and has an
authentic Tiffany window. The Conference concludes with a brunch and our
final plenary speaker.
Post-conference tours are available on Sunday afternoon and all-day tours
on Monday.
An addition to the conference is a special showing of
Persuasion at the Memorial Union Theatre, where the director Roger
Michell and actress Amanda Root will be present to discuss
the film.
Oh yes, one cannot think about a Jane Austen novel without someone moving
to the Whist table. Throughout the
conference a room will be available for whist playing. In each conference
folder will be the playing rules for Whist. Over a table of Whist you will
meet some of the most interesting JASNA members.
One last detail is the conference artist, who will be recording the
conference in art. He will also be available at the Regency Fair for those
who wish to have a portrait.
Two vendor rooms with books, period costumes, a silhouette artist, and a
bookbinder will bring you even closer to Jane Austen's world.
Return to the world of Jane Austen in October and experience "Revisiting
Mansfield Park." The plenary
speakers are Jay Clayton, Claudia Johnson, and Marilynne Robinson. At the
break-out sessions you may choose topics that included the social, political,
literary, and artistic considerations of
Mansfield Park. You need not be
strictly an observer; each session has time reserved for discussion.
Registration for the conference is $295 for non-JASNA members and $245 for
JASNA members.
Your only other expense at the conference will be afternoon meals on Friday
and Saturday.
Of course, there will no doubt be something you cannot live without at
the Regency Fair.
We look forward to welcoming you to "Revisiting
Mansfield Park" in Madison,
Wisconsin in October.
Joyce Bromley and Joseph Wiesenfarth
Co-conveners, 1995 JASNA Conference
Revisiting Mansfield Park
From: Joyce E. Bromley
Date: Sat, 14 Oct 1995 14:02:26 -0500
Subject: The Jane Austen Society of North America (JASNA) Annual Conference
Most of the papers from the conference will be published in the
JASNA journal Persuasions but the
journal is only available to members. I fear that some of those who enjoy the
Austen internet information are not JASNA members and would enjoy information
about the conference. Audio-cassettes of all of the sessions, on the other
hand, are available to everyone, but they must be ordered.
[The apparent deadline for ordering these tapes was November 1st, 1995, so prices and ordering instructions have been removed.]
The Jane Austen Experience: "Revisiting Mansfield Park," the 1995 JASNA
Conference
Complete your Jane Austen experience at home by watching "Revisiting
Mansfield Park" Society, Lovers' Vows and listening to the
session recordings. The George Suski Company, Hollywood, California, produced
the tapes and the tapes were edited and prepared in his studio.
Videos are available as a two-video set.
One video captured society at "Revisiting Mansfield Park," this
year's JASNA conference (Opening Reception -- Regency Fair --
Pre-Theatre Hors d'Oeuvres -- Banquet -- Authors' Signature Reception --
The Jane Austen Portrait)
In the second video you will see the presentation of
Lovers' Vows -- the play that tantalized the Bertram
household.
The audio-cassettes will allow you to enjoy all
of the sessions at "Revisiting Mansfield Park," and to share them with your
family and friends.
Tape # Speaker and Title
BREAKOUT SESSION I
1
Thomas Hoberg, Fanny in Fairyland: The Reality of Myth
Raymond Headlee, Rascals in Jane Austen's Works
2
Penny Gay, Theatricals and Theatricality in Mansfield
Park
Steven Jones, A `Rage for Transparencies': Fashion and Satire
in Mansfield Park
3
Kuldip Kaur Kuwahara, Mansfield Park, Property and the British
Empire
Melissa Schaub, Ironic Sensibility: Pathos in Mansfield
Park
BREAKOUT SESSION II
4
Inger Thomsen Brodey, Ha-has and Papas: Authority, Rebellion
and Landscaping in Mansfield Park
Mary Marshall, Continuations of Mansfield Park
5
Edith Lank, Whom Can We Admire in Mansfield Park?
Elaine Bander, The Other Play in Mansfield Park: Shakespeare's
Henry VIII
6
Jacqueline Reid-Walsh, Pray, Is She
Out, or Is She Not? Reading Fanny's Position at
Mansfield Park
Selma James, Man's Field, Women's Field Slave's Field: Sex,
Race, and Class in Jane Austen's Novels
BREAKOUT SESSION III
7
Margaret Kirkham, Edmund Bertram: A Politically Correct
Hero?
Juliet McMaster, The Talkers and Listeners of Mansfield
Park
8
Nicholas Preus, Mansfield Park: Power Houses and Polite
Sex
Jacqueline Erwin, Lady Bertram, Mrs. Norris, Mrs. Price: Place
and Moral Identity in Mansfield Park
9
Judith Terry, Sir Thomas Bertram's "Business in
Antigua"
Joseph Kestner, An Open Discussion of Mansfield Park
PLENARY SESSIONS
10
Henry Rice, Margaret Anne Doody, and Douglas Murray, The Jane
Austen Portrait
11
Emily Auerbach, Courage to Write
Marilynne Robinson, Revisiting Jane Austen
12
Jay Clayton, Fanny Price in Cyberspace
Claudia Johnson, Mansfield Park, or What Became of Jane
Austen?
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