Spring Gala 2015
Presented by the Jane Austen Society of North
America
Ohio North Coast - www.jasnaonc.com
Programming Change:
Sean Silver | Jane Austen in the Information Age
Jane Austen is often treated as a writer of timeless tableaux, of village settings in which nothing essential ever changes. But we might rather treat Austen as the masterful architect of intense, rapidly evolving communication networks, in which the texture of a community can change with a word. This lecture argues that Austen captures, as if by accident, the high period of a certain way of thinking about information. Returning to novels like Pride and Prejudice can teach us not only about the prehistory of our own information-rich world, but also about how we continue to be formed and informed in relationships with other people.
Sean Silver is Associate Professor of English at the University of Michigan. His last book, called The Mind is a Collection: Case Studies in Eighteenth-Century Thought (Penn 2015), is the exhibit catalogue for a virtual museum of eighteenth-century objects, each of which was used to model a cognitive process. It offers 28 exhibits, from the index of John Locke’s commonplace book (Exhibit 1) to Jonathan Wild’s skeleton (Exhibit 28), with 26 other cognitive ecologies in between. He is currently interested in accidents-- things like plague, serendipity, the discovery of oxygen, and hurricanes-- which he intends to compile as an almanac of chance events.
Sean Silver is Associate Professor of English at the University of Michigan. His last book, called The Mind is a Collection: Case Studies in Eighteenth-Century Thought (Penn 2015), is the exhibit catalogue for a virtual museum of eighteenth-century objects, each of which was used to model a cognitive process. It offers 28 exhibits, from the index of John Locke’s commonplace book (Exhibit 1) to Jonathan Wild’s skeleton (Exhibit 28), with 26 other cognitive ecologies in between. He is currently interested in accidents-- things like plague, serendipity, the discovery of oxygen, and hurricanes-- which he intends to compile as an almanac of chance events.
Kim Wilson | At Home with Jane Austen
“From her youth in a country rectory in Steventon, a small village in Hampshire, England—where she wrote her first stories for her friends, Volume the First, Volume the Second, and Volume the Third—to the fashionable spa town of Bath, to the seaport of Southampton, to her final years in her last settled home at peaceful Chawton Cottage, where she penned her most famous novel, Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen’s life was hardly that of a shut in.”
Kim is a writer, editor, and gardener who lives in Wisconsin and is a longtime member of the Jane Austen Society of North America. She is the author of Tea with Jane Austen, and In the Garden with Jane Austen. Her talk will illuminate the daily life of the Austen family, from the homestead to the city - a topic very familiar to her since the publication of her latest book, At Home with Jane Austen.
Kim is a writer, editor, and gardener who lives in Wisconsin and is a longtime member of the Jane Austen Society of North America. She is the author of Tea with Jane Austen, and In the Garden with Jane Austen. Her talk will illuminate the daily life of the Austen family, from the homestead to the city - a topic very familiar to her since the publication of her latest book, At Home with Jane Austen.
Randi Pahlau | Passions and Pemberley: Jane Austen's Christian Care for all Creatures
Randi Pahlau is a PhD Candidate in British Literature at Kent State University, studying both William Shakespeare and Jane Austen. She has been at Malone University for 25 years where she teaches World Literature, Shakespeare, and Jane Austen. Her focus is stewardship and dominion over the land and animals in Austen’s works. Randi is also a member of JASNA Ohio North Coast, where she serves on the program committee.
AUTHOR SIGNINGBring your copies of Kim Wilson’s books, or purchase them at the event to have them signed. |
FEATURINGLive harp music provided byJaden McDonald |
EMPORIUMJewelry, art, books, and more will be available during the event. Be sure to purchase JASNA fundraising items! |
Doors Open at 11am
Canton, OH 44709
c/o Jennifer Weinbrecht
13436 Hidden Oaks Dr., Novelty OH 44072
(make checks out to JASNA ONC)
or visit www.jasnaonc.com
Chicken
Chicken Piccata with Lemon Caper Sauce
Vegetarian
Parisienne Gnocchi with Grilled Mushrooms, Asparagus and Lemon Brown Butter
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13436 Hidden Oaks Dr., Novelty OH 44072
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or visit www.jasnaonc.com
Tickets are $35 and include lectures & catered lunch.
Meal Choices:Chicken
Chicken Piccata with Lemon Caper Sauce
Vegetarian
Parisienne Gnocchi with Grilled Mushrooms, Asparagus and Lemon Brown Butter