Making History Come Alive
Jane Austen & Co. is a free public Zoom series focused on the life, histories, material culture, and novelists living in the transatlantic eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. All of our programs are free and open to the public!
Each series includes a diverse array of lectures, Q&As, and digital programming. Our mission is to bring engaging and informative humanities programming to audiences both within our local Triangle Region of North Carolina and far, far beyond. Since Summer 2020, and with the help of a variety of public humanities grants, Jane Austen & Co. has offered biennial series of online webinars and discussions. They are recorded live with participant questions and answers, and afterwards available for free on our website.
Inspired by Jane Austen: Interviews with Recent Adapters, Novelists, & Scholars
UPCOMING PROGRAMMING
Beginning in November 2023:
Austen vs Brontë:
The Great Debate
Beginning in February 2024:
Upcoming Events
April 18, 2023
FREE ONLINE EVENT
5 PM EDT
Time & the Heavens
in Regency Life
with Chris Clemens
Between the adoption of the Gregorian Calendar by England in 1752, and the formation of the Royal Astronomical Society by William Herschel in 1820, technologies for the measurement of time and the heavens became increasingly accessible to professionals and amateurs alike. In this talk, astrophysicist Chris Clemens (UNC Chapel Hill) will describe these developments and how they entered into everyday life in England.
April 18, 2023
FREE ZOOM EVENT
5 PM EDT
Portrait of a Woman in Silk: London Designer Anna Maria Garthwaite
with Zara Anishanslin
In this talk, Zara Anishanslin (University of Delaware) explores the life, labors, and designs of one of London's most fascinating eighteenth-century women, a woman who against all odds achieved success in the male-dominated field of silk production. Enigmatic Anna Maria Garthwaite (1688-1763) was one of early modern Britain’s few women silk designers.
May 9, 2023
FREE ONLINE EVENT
5 PM EDT
Jane Austen & the Science of Seabathing
with Jane Darcy
No person could be really well,’ claims Sanditon’s Mr. Parker, ‘without spending at least six weeks by the sea every year’. Emma’s Mr Woodhouse disagrees: ‘the sea is very rarely of use to any body. I am sure it almost killed me once’. This talk by Jane Darcy explores Jane Austen’s knowing use of the science behind the Georgian and Regency craze for sea bathing.
Recorded Events
This series was the most important thing that’s happened in the Janeite community in the past year. By far.
Professor Devoney Looser (Arizona State University)