Jane Austen Summer Program
Chapel Hill & Carrboro, North Carolina
Hooray, we won an NC Humanities grant!
We plan to celebrate the 250th anniversary of both Austen's birth in 1775 and the birth of the United States in 1776 with JASPs on trans-Atlantic topics for
both 2025 and 2026.
Thanks to our new grant, our next award-winning 4-day JASP symposium will be June 19-22, 2025 in historic New Bern, NC. The reading will be Austen's first published novel, Sense and Sensibility, and we will take a transatlantic look at the time of her birth as well as the birth of her first novel. The theme is "Medicine, Birth, and Domestic Arts in Regency England and Colonial North Carolina." We hope to offer transportation from Chapel Hill, or you can fly to EWN or ILM instead of RDU. More information will be forthcoming soon!
The Jane Austen Summer Program (JASP) is designed to appeal to anyone with a passion for all things Austen. Attendees include people from all walks of life, as well as established scholars, high school teachers, and students from middle school through graduate school.
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Praise for JASP
“The work of the Jane Austen Summer Program and Jane Austen & Co. is phenomenal. ... Everything they do is invaluable to Austen studies and fans.”
“Love everything about JASP - the welcoming atmosphere, the rich variety of experiences (literature, film, material culture), the generosity and competence of those involved.”
“It’s a fabulous opportunity. The biggest strength is the focus on Jane Austen and the diversity of views and topics covered.”
“I have already told most of my friends to mark their calendars for next year.”
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