Founders Week Jane Austen Events | ILA

Founders Week Jane Austen Events

Cosponsored by Emory European Studies

For a complete list of Founders Week events, click here.

Sunday, February 1, 2009:

JANE AUSTEN BOOK AND FILM FESTIVAL, PANEL DISCUSSION: "MONEY, MARRIAGE AND LOVE--JANE AUSTEN PAST AND PRESENT"

5:00-7:00pm, Jones Room, Woodruff Library, Reception following

The panel will offer two perspectives on how money, marriage, and love appear in Jane Austen's novels and their contemporary film adaptations. Dr. Judith Miller's presentation will focus on marriage and property law in the time of Austen. Dr. Michele Schreiber, of Emory's Department of Film Studies, will discuss how the significance of these issues in the post-feminist era underlies the popularity of recent Austen film adaptations.

JANE AUSTEN FILM FESTIVAL: PRIDE AND PREJUDICE

8:00pm, White Hall 205

Young British star Kiera Knightley add stunning beauty to her portrayal of witty, opinionated, and outspoken Elizabeth Bennett, the one of the five Bennett girls not exclusively focused on getting married.

Monday, February 2, 2009:

JANE AUSTEN FILM FESTIVAL: EMMA

8:00pm, White Hall 205

This Gwyneth Paltrow film postdates the 1995 Clueless in portraying Jane Austen's meddling heroine whose matchmaking efforts run amuck.

Tuesday, February 3, 2009:

JANE AUSTEN FILM FESTIVAL: BECOMING JANE

8:00pm, White Hall 205

Elaborated from an incident in Jane Austen's life, the film speculatively depicts the young author-to-be (Anne Hathaway) as she falls in love with the impecunious Irish lawyer-in-training Tom Lefroy (James McAvoy) in an event which is believed to have inspired the Elizabeth Bennett-Fitzwilliam Darcy romance in Pride and Prejudice.