​HAPPY 250th BIRTHDAY, JANE AUSTEN!

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JASP is a four-day symposium exploring Jane Austen through lectures, workshops, small-group discussions and other activities, including a Regency ball. Each year we focus on one of Austen’s works. We will celebrate the 250th anniversary of Austen's birth in 1775. This transatlantic celebration will take place June 19-22, 2025 in historic New Bern, NC.  In line with our theme "Sensibility and Domesticity," we will explore topics including medicine, birth, and domestic arts in Regency England and colonial North Carolina.  We’ll focus on Austen's first published novel, Sense and Sensibility—considering the birth of her career as a published writer as well as taking a transatlantic look at the world into which she was born.

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REGISTRATION OPENS FEB 1, 2025!

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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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Here is a list of our past programs: “Pride and Prejudice” (2013 & 2019), “Sense and Sensibility” (2014), “Emma” (2015), “Mansfield Park” (2016), “Persuasion” (2017), “Northanger Abbey” and Mary Shelley’s “Frankenstein” (2018), and “Jane Austen’s World," with a focus on Austen’s letters and Claire Tomalin’s biography “Jane Austen: A Life” (2020/2021). In 2022, JASP centered on Jane Austen ("Mansfield Park") and Shakespeare ("King Lear" and "All's Well That Ends Well"). Our 2023 theme was Austen's teenage writings.​​