Jane Austen Society of
North America
2005 Annual General Meeting
October 7-9, 2005
Hyatt Regency Hotel,
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
2005 AGM Schedule
To
day we all attack Ashe Park, & tomorrow I dine again at Deane. What
an eventful Week!
—Jane
to her sister,
Cassandra, January
21, 1801
We invite JASNA
members to
participate in this eventful schedule of AGM festivities. Tours,
plenary speakers, and breakout sessions are described on other
pages.
Wednesday,
October 5
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4 p.m to 7 p.m.
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Registration
Open
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Thursday,
October 6
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8:00
a.m. to 8:30 p.m.
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Registration
Open |
8:45
a.m. to 4:00 p.m.
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Frank
Lloyd Wright in
Racine tour
S.C. Johnson Wax Administration Center and Wingspread
Lunch and visit to Racine Art Museum
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8:45
a.m. to 4:00 p.m.
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Tour
of the Lunts’ estate,
Ten Chimneys
Box lunch |
9:30 a.m. to Noon
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Milwaukee
Art Museum tour
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11:30 a.m. to 2:45 p.m.
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Walking
tour to the Third
Ward
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12:45 p.m. to 3:30 p.m.
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City
of Milwaukee bus tour
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1:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m.
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English
Country Dance
Workshop
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4:00 p.m. to 5:30 p.m.
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Tea
with Jane Austen at
the Woman's Club of Wisconsin
Speaker: Kim Wilson,
author of Tea with Jane Austen
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5:45 p.m. to 6:30 p.m.
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Choral
Evensong at St.
Paul's Episcopal Church
Choristers of St. Cecilia premier a choral setting of one of Jane
Austen’s prayers
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Dinner
on your own
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8:30
p.m. to 10:30 p.m.
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Lecture
by Irene
Collins
at the Hyatt: "How to Write a Begging Letter: Hints and Examples from
Jane Austen’s Letters and Novels"
Book
launch of Juvenilia Press edition of Lady
Susan
Cocktails,
conversation, and book signing
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Throughout the day
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Regency
Room display of
period fashions and artifacts
Jane Austen Books, Travellers’ Tales Books, and Juvenilia Press
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Friday,
October 7
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Throughout the day
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Regency
Room display of
period fashions and artifacts
Jane Austen Books, Travellers’ Tales Books, and Juvenilia Press
Regency Fair – mercantile from the JASNA Regions
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| 8:00
a.m. to 5:00 p.m. |
Registration
Open
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8:00
a.m. to 10:00 a.m.
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JASNA
board meeting
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| 8:45 a.m. to 12:45 p.m.
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Half-day
Frank Lloyd
Wright in Racine tour
S. C. Johnson Wax Administration Center
Lunch
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9:15 a.m. to Noon
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City
of Milwaukee bus tour
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| 9:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. |
Walking
tour to the Third
Ward |
9:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m.
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English
Country Dance
Workshop
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10:00 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.
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Quill
pen and
letter-folding demonstration
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1:00 p.m. to 3:45 p.m.
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AGM convenes
Carol
Medine Moss Keynote
Address:
Jan Fergus,
"'The Whinnying of Harpies'? Humor in Jane Austen's Letters"
Stretch break
Videotaped interview, "An Hour with Deirdre Le Faye"
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| 3:45 p.m. to 4:15 p.m. |
Coffee
Break
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4:15 p.m. to 5:05 p.m.
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Breakout
Sessions A
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5 p.m. to 8 p.m.
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Dinner
on your own
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| 9:15
p.m. |
Advance
Screening of new PRIDE & PREJUDICE movie
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Saturday,
October 8
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Throughout the day
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Regency
Room display of
period fashions and artifacts
Jane Austen Books, Travellers’ Tales Books, and Juvenilia Press
Regency Fair – mercantile from the JASNA Regions
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7:30
a.m. to 8:45 a.m.
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Continental
Breakfast
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9:00
a.m. to 10 a.m.
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Plenary:
North
American Scholar
Lecture
Joan K. Ray,"The Woman Who Came to Dinner: Jane Austen and Country
Houses
in Visits and Letters"
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10:10 a.m. to 11 a.m.
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Breakout
Sessions B
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11:15
a.m. to 12:05
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Breakout
Sessions C
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Noon to 1:30 p.m.
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Lunch
on your own
Box lunches may be preordered |
12:30 p.m. to 1:15 p.m.
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Regency
Fashion Show
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1:30 p.m. to 2:30 p.m.
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Plenary:
Joan
Philosophos Lecture
Juliet McMaster, "Your Sincere Freind, the Author " |
2:45 p.m. to 3:35 p.m.
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Breakout
Sessions D
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3:45 p.m. to 4:15 p.m.
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U.S.
members business
meeting
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4:15 p.m. to 4:45 p.m.
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Canadian
members business
meeting
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5:30 p.m. to 7:00 p.m.
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Cocktail
hour
Meet 2006 Tucson AGM committee
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7:00 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.
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Banquet,
toast to Jane, costume parade
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8:30 p.m. to 9:15 p.m.
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Author
book-signing, exhibits and cash bar
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9:15 p.m. to midnight
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Regency
Ball
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9:15 p.m. to 10:15 p.m.
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William
Phillips and Victoria
Hinshaw lecture: "'Expect to be very much amused': Art
and Theater in Jane Austen’s Letters"
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9:15
p.m. to midnight
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Whist
Room
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Sunday, October
9
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8:00 a.m. to 10:00 a.m.
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Regional
Coordinators
Meeting |
10:00
a.m. to 12:30 p.m.
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Closing
brunch and lecture:
Devoney Looser and George Justice, "Burn this Letter: Personal
Correspondence and the Secrets of the Soul"
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12:45
p.m. to 3:15 p.m.
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Milwaukee
Art Museum tour
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12:45 p.m. to 4:15 p.m.
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Milwaukee,
Wright and More tour
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| 5:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. |
Post-AGM
dinner at Villa
Terrace Decorative Arts Museum
Speaker: Sheryl Craig, "'The Torments of Rice Puddings and Apple
Dumplings': Jane Austen and Food"
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| Monday October
10 |
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8:45 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.
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Tour
of the Lunts’ estate,
Ten Chimneys
Box lunch |
8:45 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
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A
Day in Kohler tour
Kohler Design Center, John Michael Kohler Arts Center, shopping, and
lunch at the Horse & Plow Pub of the American Club resort
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