The Austen Connection

Nov 24 2024 22 ep. 39 mins 20

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We're talking about the stories of Jane Austen - how they connect to us today, and connect us to each other.

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Giving, gratitude, goodness, Jane Austen

Nov 24 2024 38 mins

Hello friends,Enjoy this special podcast episode from a fun and meaningful conversation broadcast from our live taping at a one-day conference, “Everybody's Jane Austen.” This special symposium was hosted and produced by the Jane Austen Society of North America's Metro New York region. It was recorded live at Leonard Nimoy Thalia at Symphony Space, in Manhattan. It was our hono

Jane Austen's happy endings have strings attached

Jul 21 2024 31 mins

Hello, friends!So: Does Jane Austen even do happy endings?It’s a very fair question! And one we’ve explored at the Austen Connection - and now diving deeply into this question is a fascinating new book: Jane Austen and the Price of Happiness is just out, from Hopkins Press. Professor Inger Brodey is the founding director and co-host of the marvelous conversation, dialogue, and

Second chances and Muslim romances

Oct 29 2023 32 mins

The Mis-Arrangement of Sana Saeed just like Jane Austen’s 'Persuasion' is all about family pressures, class pressures, societal pressures - all the pressures - navigated by two people who once innocently fell into fast love with each other, and are now reunited, amidst conflict and tension. They navigate all that conflict, all that tension, all those pressures, and find their way

We need romance, sparkle, joy, and Jane Austen

Feb 12 2023 37 mins

Just in time for that much-anticipated and dreaded day - Valentine’s Day - we are celebrating, or commiserating, by dropping a brand new podcast episode that’s all about romance, sparkle, joy, and Jane Austen.In this episode, romance author Felicity George talks about all of the above, and also her love for the Regency, romance writing, and the long 18th century. Enjoy this con

Live from Austen Con!

Nov 30 2022 42 mins

Hello friends,Welcome to a special Austen Connection podcast episode - taped earlier this month, for a live-streamed event at the wonderful Austen Con 2022, an international weekend gathering of scholars, artists, and creators on Jane Austen topics, from Melbourne, Australia.This was fun!The annual Austen Con is produced by Sharmini Kumar and 24 Carrot Productions, from Abbotsford

Reading Jane Austen in Nigeria

Oct 26 2022 38 mins

Hello friends,Stephanie Shonekan is an author and musicologist who has worked with the BBC, public radio and written and taught extensively on music, from soul music, to country music, and Nigerian and African-American hip hop. Shonekan serves as the dean of the College of Arts and Humanities at the University of Maryland, and we have created a podcast together, Cover Story with St

Persuadable

Sep 23 2022 38 mins

Hello friends,We’re so happy to be able to share this conversation with the co-creators of the Rational Creatures YouTube series that retells the story of Jane Austen’s Persuasion.Inspired by that viral video sensation known as The Lizzie Bennet Diaries, aka LBD, Rational Creatures is powered by crowd-funding, inspiration, and friendship. Series co-creators Ayelen Barrios Ruiz

Jane Austen hits the runway with NYFW designer Jennyvi Dizon

Sep 08 2022 39 mins

Hello, listeners! Designer Jennyvi Dizon is a fashion designer whose latest collection - debuting this weekend at NYFW - is inspired by the characters of Jane Austen. Dizon has been sewing since she was a child - she says it’s how she speaks to the world. Every design she creates, she says, contains a narrative. A story.In this conversation and podcast episode with the Austen Con

Author Nikki Payne is taking her shots. As did Jane Austen.

Sep 02 2022 36 mins

Hello friends,Welcome to a new weekend, a new month and a brand new season of the Austen Connection podcast, back right now with this episode! Kicking off our third season of the Austen Connection podcast is author Nikki Payne - a novelist, tech anthropologist, and cultural observer in all things.Dr. Payne deploys her PhD in Anthropology for her day-job as a tech anthropologist at

The Podcast - S2, Ep6: The Math, the Money, the Marriage, in Jane Austen

Jan 03 2022 34 mins

Hello friends,It’s a new Monday of a new year. Hope yours is fantastic. And however it is, and wherever you are, here’s some Jane Austen podcasting to power your Monday. Louis Menand is a New Yorker writer and a Harvard professor who tries to get his Harvard students to read and understand and appreciate the stories of Jane Austen, among other classic authors - that’s his day