Events
Check out our upcoming events below – registration or contact information is listed with each event. Please note that, for popular events, preference will be given to Wisconsin members.
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For the 2025/2026 JASNA Wisconsin program season, the theme will be "Bath" to align with the 2026 AGM theme of Jane Austen's "Bath novels": Northanger Abbey and Persuasion!
We use Zoom for all of our virtual events, so if you are unfamiliar with that platform here is a good video to familiarize yourself with it!
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For write-ups of past events, check out our blog, The Wire.
Thursday Morning Coffee & Tea Hour
Date: Every Thursday @ 9 am CT
Location: Virtual via Zoom
To Join: Please email rc@jasnawi.org for more information.
Performance of Sense & Sensibility
Date: Sunday, February 15 @ 2 pm CT
Location: Waukesha Civic Theater
Details: See the play By Kate Hamill and stay for a "talk back" session with JASNA WI members Kim Wilson and Liz Philosophos Cooper, and more!
About the play: A playful new adaptation of Jane Austen’s beloved novel follows the fortunes (and misfortunes) of the Dashwood sisters—sensible Elinor and hypersensitive Marianne—after their father’s sudden death leaves them financially destitute and socially vulnerable. Set in gossipy late 18th-century England, with a fresh female voice, the play is full of humor, emotional depth, and bold theatricality.
Milwaukee-Area Book Club
Date: Saturday, February 21, 2026 @ 9:30 am to 11 am CT
Location: Milwaukee Public Library, Central Library, Rotary Club of Milwaukee Community Room
To join: Please email milwaukee@jasnawi.org for more information.
Details: We will read Lady of Quality / Georgette Heyer (set in Bath)
Hot tea will be provided. You are invited to share refreshments for tea if you wish.
Discussion of Six Weeks by the Sea
Date: Sunday, March 1 @ 2 pm CT
Location: Virtual via Zoom
To Join: Please email rc@jasnawi.org for more information.
Details: We will read Six weeks by the sea by Paula Byrne
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In Wisconsin, books are readily available through your local library system. From the publisher: A vivid historical novel about Jane Austen that explores a question that has fascinated Janeites for years—Austen wrote some of the greatest love stories in existence, but did she ever fall in love?
Gaming with Jane Austen
Date: Saturday, March 21, 2026 @ 1:30 pm to 4 pm CT
Location: Milwaukee Public Library, Bay View Branch
RSVP: Please email milwaukee@jasnawi.org
Details: Join us for an afternoon of Jane Austen inspired games
Did you know there are over 20 published and independently published Jane Austen inspired board and card games out there? Do you want to come play some with other Austen enthusiasts? Join the Milwaukee chapter of the Jane Austen Society of North America, Wisconsin region, in the Llewellyn Community Room at Bay View Library, for an afternoon of merriment and delight and try out a variety of games that will give you a Regency rush! Regency attire welcomed but not required!
North Woods Book Club
Date: Sunday, March 22, 2026 @ 1 pm CT
Location: Virtual via Zoom
To Join: Please email northwoods@jasnawi.org for more information.
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We'll read Wild for Austen: A Rebellious, Subversive, and Untamed Jane by Devoney Looser and The Austen Affair by Madeline Bell.
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Community read of Northanger Abbey
Date: Sunday, April 19 @ 2 pm CT
Location: Virtual via Zoom
To Join: Please email rc@jasnawi.org for more information.
Details: Read Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen
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Dr. Tracy Fernandez Rysavy (Chair Northern Wisconsin Group and Associate Professor at UW Green Bay) will lead a discussion of Northanger Abbey including a discussion of Gothic Literature.
Spring Luncheon and Lecture
Date: Saturday, April 25 2026, 11 am to 3:00 pm CT
Location: Blackhawk Country Club, Madison, WI
To join: Registration will open in the spring.
​Details: Our guest speaker will be Juliette Wells, Austen scholar and Professor of Literary Studies at Gaucher College.
Madison-Area Tea and Book Club
Date: TBD
Location: A member's home--email for location
To join: Please email madison@jasnawi.org for more information.
Details: Spring book club
Watch this space for details
Virtual "Book and a Movie" Chat
Date: TBD as events come up
Location: Contact rc@jasnawi.org
Details: TBD