JASNA-NY and JASNA-NJ
Supra-Regional Conference
April 17 and 18, 2021
Jane Austen’s
French Connection
Registration Fee: $25
Program:
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Charles Burns began his career as a silhouettist after leaving art college by working as a street-portrait artist in London’s Covent Garden. Initially drawing ten-minute pencil portraits, he later took up cutting silhouettes out of pure curiosity. Working for over twenty years as The Roving Artist, Mr. Burns has attended many prestigious events all over the UK. He has cut three portraits of the Queen as well as of Presidents Clinton and Mandela, and many other well-known faces. “I’ve always loved taking my traditional craft into the modern age.”
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‘The House would close with the greatest éclat’:
Eliza de Feuillide, Mary Crawford and the ‘rights of a lively mind’
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Paula Byrne is the author of six highly-acclaimed works of nonfiction, most recently the illustrated The Genius of Jane Austen: Her Love of Theatre and Why She Works in Hollywood (2017). Her first bestseller was Perdita: The Life of Mary Robinson (2004). Ms. Byrne also wrote the tie-in book to the award-winning film Belle (2013), about the 18th century mixed race young woman raised by Lord Mansfield, the Lord Chief Justice of England. Her debut novel, Look to Your Wife, was published in 2018 and Mirror Mirror, her historical novel based on the life of Marlene Dietrich, was just reissued in paperback as Blonde Venus. In 2013, to coincide with the bicentenary of the first publication of Pride & Prejudice, she published an innovative biography called The Real Jane Austen: A Life in Small Things. She's currently at work on a book about Thomas Hardy's women. Ms. Byrne earned a BA in English and theology from Chichester University and a PhD in English literature from the University of Liverpool, where she is a Research Fellow.
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Franco-American Fashion in the Regency Era
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Abby Cox has been a dress historian, collector, and dressmaker for more than a decade, and says she actually wore 18th century women’s clothing all day, five days a week, for five years of her life. She is the co-author of The American Duchess Guide to 18th Century Dressmaking and The American Duchess Guide to 18th Century Beauty. Ms. Cox now hosts her own YouTube channel, diving into such topics as myth-busting common assumptions in historical dress, analyzing extant garments, and explaining sewing and construction techniques. She learned her mantua-making skills as an apprentice in the dress shop at Colonial Williamsburg.
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“A woman who, like me, knows only her mother tongue, and has read very little in that” or Why We Shouldn’t Trust Our Authoress on the Matter of Foreign Languages and Reading
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Gillian Dow is an Associate Professor in the English Department at the University of Southampton, UK. She studied French and English at the University of Glasgow. Previously, she taught at several Oxford colleges and at the Université Paris XII and worked as a translator. She also served as Executive Director of Chawton House Library from 2014 to 2019. Dr. Dow has published widely on Jane Austen and her contemporaries, including Uses of Austen: Jane's Afterlives (co-edited with Clare Hanson, 2012). She has a special interest in the reception of French literature in Britain and the cross-channel migration of ideas in the period 1780-1830. She enjoys working with the broader community of researchers in Romantic-Period literature and culture and in 2019, was elected Vice-President of the British Association of Romantic Studies. Her most recent collection of essays, co-edited with Jennie Batchelor, is Women’s Writing, 1660–1830: Feminisms and Futures (2017).
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Maligned and Misunderstood:
Mary Wollstonecraft and
The Vindication of the Rights of Woman
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Charlotte Gordon's newest book, Romantic Outlaws: The Extraordinary Lives of Mary Wollstonecraft and Her Daughter Mary Shelley, won the 2015 National Book Critics Circle award in biography. Earlier works include Mistress Bradstreet: The Untold Story of America's First Poet — a Massachusetts Honor book for non-fiction — and The Woman Who Named God: Abraham's Dilemma and the Birth of Three Faiths. Her essays have appeared in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Slate, The Washington Post, The Cambridge Companion to Early American Poetry, and Harvard Magazine. She has also published two books of poetry: When the Grateful Dead Came to St. Louis and Two Girls on a Raft. A graduate of Harvard College, she received a master's degree in creative writing and a Ph.D. in history and literature from Boston University. From 1999-2002, she was Elie Wiesel's teaching assistant at Boston University. Currently, she is the Distinguished Professor of Humanities at Endicott College in Beverly, Massachusetts.
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History and Life Upon Lafayette’s Recreated L’Hermione
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Adam Hodges-Leclair is a tailor and naval clothier specializing in museum-quality clothing for the 18th century mariner and gentlemen alike. His special expertise is utilized by living history interpreters, groups, and museums seeking authentic and functional clothing made with integrity. In 2015, wearing period clothing, he served as one of the volunteer crew that sailed a full-size replica of the 18th century tall ship Hermione from Rochefort, France, to the United States in homage to an historic voyage: In 1780, Hermione carried the Marquis de Lafayette as ambassador to the American colonies to announce that his nation was sending crucial army and navy support that helped turn the tide of the Revolutionary War. Mr. Hodges-Leclair holds a history degree from the University of St. Andrews, Scotland, with a dissertation focused on local communities’ fishing heritage and Georgian maritime clothing.
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Vénus Noire: Representations of Black Women in 19th Century France
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Robin Mitchell is an Associate Professor of History at the California State University Channel Islands (CI). She received her master’s degree in Late Modern European History from the University of California, Santa Cruz, and her doctorate in Late Modern European History from the University of California, Berkeley, with a Designated Emphasis in Women, Gender, and Sexuality. Her dissertation investigated the correlation between representations of black women in France and the aftermath of the Haitian Revolution. In addition to numerous published journal articles, Prof. Mitchell’s first book, entitled Vénus Noire: Black Women & Colonial Fantasies in 19th-Century France, was published by University of Georgia Press in 2020. It was named by the African American Intellectual History Society as one of "The Best Black History Books of 2020." Before joining the CI faculty in 2016, Prof. Mitchell was a full-time faculty member at DePaul University in Chicago.
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"Jane Austen's Jewels: Jewelry of the Regency Era"
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Taylor Shelby is the owner of Dames a la Mode, a business that reproduces historical jewelry and accessories. She describes herself as a historical costumer who’s particularly passionate about the Georgian era. Ms. Shelby lives and works in Washington, DC.
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Virtual Walking Tour of New Jersey’s
French Connections
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From colonial times to the present day, New Jersey history has been influenced by the French. Join JASNA New Jersey as we explore notable locations and people of French descent that have made their mark across the Garden State.
Jessica McKenna, the regional coordinator for JASNA New Jersey, is the director of a learning center and an early childhood educator. She is an avid reader of historical fiction, as well as an art historian focusing on the medieval time period.
Amelia Rodriguez, a former regional coordinator for the JASNA New Jersey region, is a librarian in Mercer County and devoted reader of works about Jane Austen and her novels. She maintains the JASNA NJ social media properties and content.
Meredith Barnes, a former regional coordinator for the JASNA New Jersey region, is an associate director of communications for a public sector union and living history interpreter, specializing in America’s revolutionary history.
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Saturday Evening Entertainments |
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Emoticons
A line from each book has been translated into emoji’s. Can you figure out the line and the book?
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What’s in Your Reticule?
Grab your purse, briefcase or backpack. Points will be awarded for each item you have with you.
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Meet Charles Burns over Zoom and pose for him while he cuts your portrait
Saturday, April 17, 2019 (1:30 PM – 2:30 PM)
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Charles works really fast. His silhouette portraits are cut freehand from black paper, using a pair of surgical scissors. Each silhouette takes just two or three minutes – depending on how complicated your hairstyle is!
At the end of the day Charles will mount the silhouettes onto signed cards, backed with a stamped certificate of authenticity, and post them to you anywhere in the world.
Cost: $30 per person (includes shipping charges)
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How to register (this is a THREE-STEP process):
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STEP ONE: Click here (launches Eventbrite), complete form, and pay registration fee
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STEP TWO: After registering, you will receive a confirmation email. THAT E-MAIL CONTAINS AN IMPORTANT LINK. You MUST click on that link to “register” for Zoom access to the conference.
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STEP THREE: You will receive another confirmation e-mail … THIS E-MAIL CONTAINS THE ZOOM LINK enabling you to access the online conference. SAVE THIS E-MAIL!
Donations, which will assist with offsetting our program and technology fees, may be sent:
- via initial registration form on Eventbrite page (they will take a percentage of your donated funds),
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via PayPal to treasurer.jasnany@gmail.com
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via check, payable to 'JASNA-NY', to our Treasurer (note in memo field "supra-regional"): Christina Feicht, 150 E 69th St, Apt 7H, New York, NY 10021
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“A woman who, like me, knows only her mother tongue, and has read very little in that” Or, Why We Shouldn’t Trust Our Authoress on the Matter of Foreign Languages and Reading
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Jane Austen's Jewels:
Jewelry of the Regency Era
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Silhouette History
Optional Virtual Studio Event
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History and Life Upon Lafayette’s Recreated L’Hermione |
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‘The House would close with the greatest éclat’:
Eliza de Feuillide,
Mary Crawford and the
‘rights of a lively mind’
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Announcements
Dinner Break
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Entertainments
Emoticons
What’s in Your Reticule?
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Jessica McKenna
Amelia Rodriguez
Meredith Barnes
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Virtual Walking Tour of New Jersey’s
French Connections
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Maligned and Misunderstood: Mary Wollstonecraft and The Vindication of the Rights of Woman |
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Franco-American Fashion in the Regency Era |
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Vénus Noire: Representations of Black Women in 19th Century France |
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Looking forward to our weekend together,
Kerri Spennicchia
Regional Coordinator
JASNA-NY
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Jessica McKenna
Regional Coordinator
JASNA-NJ
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