All events are open to JASNA-SW members as well as non-members.

 

JASNA COMMUNITY GUIDELINES
AND
DIVERSITY AND INCLUSION STATEMENT
 
Please read JASNA’s Community Guidelines https://jasna.org/about/jasna-community-guidelines/ as we expect attendees to comply with them.
 
JASNA’s Diversity and Inclusion Statement:
To fulfill JASNA’s mission of fostering among the widest number of readers the study, appreciation, and understanding of Jane Austen’s works, her life, and her genius, JASNA strives to ensure that all people are welcome and feel valued in its meetings, events, and community spaces. JASNA is committed to supporting diversity, equity, and inclusion within the Society. There is no place in JASNA for discrimination or exclusion, including on the basis of age, race, national origin, ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation, sex, gender identity, ability, appearance or education.
 
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Registering for any JASNA Southwest event signifies acceptance of JASNA Southwest’s Updated COVID Policy and Community Guidelines and acknowledgment that failure to comply with either will result in being barred from attendance without refund.

–UPDATED COVID PROTOCOLS FOR IN-PERSON MEETINGS–

JASNA Southwest is committed to protecting all members and guests attending our meetings
and we ask all attendees to do their part to safeguard their own health and that of others.
Following long-term guidance from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, we
strongly urge all members attending our meetings to be up-to-date on COVID
vaccines/boosters and to take appropriate precautions.
While we are not mandating vaccines at the time of registration, COVID surges are
unpredictable. JASNA Southwest reserves the right to modify its COVID-related policies and
procedures at its sole discretion at any time. Such changes could include, as appropriate,
institution of a requirement for proof of vaccination/booster, required use of face coverings,
special measures for unvaccinated registrants, testing, and/or other provisions recommended
by governmental or health authorities. Registrants will be informed of any such changes via
email and postings on our website jasnasw.com .
As a condition of registration, registrants must acknowledge understanding of the COVID
policy; agree to comply with all applicable COVID-related federal, state, and local laws,
regulations, and guidance and follow the protocols required by JASNA Southwest and/or
the meeting venues; and acknowledge that JASNA Southwest cannot guarantee that
attendees will not be exposed to or contract COVID while attending our meetings.
Please stay home if you are ill. If you or someone in your group doesn’t feel well, has exhibited
symptoms of COVID in the previous 10 days, we ask that you not attend.

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Fall 2023 In-Person Meeting 

October 7, 2023 In-Person Half-Day Meeting
at California State University, Northridge (CSUN) Orchard Conference Center
JEWELRY AND MUSLIN IN JANE AUSTEN’S TIME
HISTORY AND RESTORATION OF THE LOST ART OF DHAKA MUSLIN
Featured speakers:
Carrie Wright (in person) on Jewelry and Jane Austen

Saif Islam (on recorded program) on his project to resurrect the lost art of Dhaka Muslin, the precious fabric popularized  in the late 18th century created in and imported from what was then Bengal (now present-day Bangladesh)

Link to register online: JEWELRY AND MUSLIN IN JANE AUSTEN’S TIME (constantcontact.com) 

(The above link is also found in the email sent by JASNA-Southwest at the beginning of September 2023.)

Need help with registering? Contact David Poepoe, JASNA-Southwest board member, at dpoepoe@library.ucla.edu

 

December 2, 2023 
December 2, 2023 In-Person Full-Day Meeting
at UCLA Faculty Center
Our culminating event of 2023 shall be on the theme Meditations on Jane Austen, including:
“Meditations of Value in Mansfield Park, or Jane Austen Tries to Balance the Books” by Dr. Lana Dalley, CSUF faculty member.
“British Christmas Traditions from the Regency to Victorian Eras” by Melissa Buell, author and JASNA-Southwest board member.
Featuring theatrical presentation “Jane Austen in 48 Minutes” by Author and Playwright Syrie James