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.
North Woods Book Club
Date: Sunday, January 18, 2026 @ 1 pm CT
Location: Virtual via Zoom
To Join: Please email northwoods@jasnawi.org for more information.
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From the leader: We'll read Evalina by Frances "Fanny" Burney. This one is available as a free ebook on Project Gutenberg. We'll also read The Late Mrs. Willoughby by Claudia Gray (Mr. Darcy and Miss Tilney mystery #2). we'll go back to our weather-proof meetings on Zoom until spring.
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Discussion of Austen at Sea
Date: Sunday, February 1 @ 2 pm CT
Location: Virtual via Zoom
To Join: Please email rc@jasnawi.org for more information.
Details: We will read Austen at Sea by Natalie Jenner
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In Wisconsin, books are readily available through your local library system. From the publisher: Two pairs of siblings, devotees of Jane Austen, find their lives transformed by a visit to England and Sir Francis Austen, her last surviving brother and keeper of a long-suppressed, secret legacy.
Madison-Area Tea and Book Club
Date: Sunday, February 8, 2026, 2 pm CT
Location: A member's home--email for location
To join: Please email madison@jasnawi.org for more information.
Details: Our book is Six Weeks by the Sea by Paula Byrne.
Please RSVP to madison@jasnawi.org if you can attend. Please bring food to share with tea.
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 Austen at 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?
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.
Virtual "Book and a Movie" Chat
Date: TBD as events come up
Location: Contact rc@jasnawi.org
Details: TBD