Austen at 250: Austen's Life, Novels, Juvenalia & Surviving Letters - JASNA AGM 2025 (Baltimore) (Annual General Meeting of the Jane Austen Society of North America, 2025)
Baltimore, MD
Organization: Jane Austen Society of North America
Event: Annual General Meeting of the Jane Austen Society of North America, 2025
2025 will be a milestone year celebrating the 250th anniversary of Jane Austen’s birth. Through this Call for Papers, we invite submission of proposals for breakout sessions at the 2025 Annual General Meeting (AGM) of the Jane Austen Society of North America (JASNA).
The AGM theme: Austen at 250: Austen's Life, Novels, Juvenelia, & Surviving Letters
Date: Oct. 10-12, 2025
Location: Baltimore Inner Harbor, Baltimore MD
Full Conference details: Visit the 2025 JASNA AGM website and Call for Papers
Seeking proposals on topics including, but are not limited to:
- Important events in Austen’s life
- Places or relationships
- Real life reimagined in her fiction
- Her writing process and her evolution as a writer
- The importance and expression of particular themes
- Publication goals and experiences
- Psychological aspects
- Change or consistency
- The nature of genius and evidence of it in Austen’s work
This multifaceted and unique celebration will offer opportunities to explore Austen’s enduring genius. A successful proposal will convey the speaker's ability to engage and educate conference audiences in a 30- to 40-minute presentation.
The deadline for submissions is November 30, 2024.
Selections will be announced in early 2025.
**Submit proposals via our conference portal**
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdxEP3VcsMlx5_-Kcvp4AcWvgUoQjMTkibSloRX4-jAktgGig/viewform
https://jasna.org/agms/baltimore2025/call-for-papers.php
Lynda Hall