In honor of the 200th anniversary of Jane Austen’s death, the Nineteenth-Century Forum and the University of Michigan Library are excited to offer a one-day interdisciplinary conference exploring movement, mapping, and margins within the late-eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

Join us for three graduate student panels:
900-1030 - Mapping Art, Taste, and Style | Angell Hall Room 3222
1045-1215 - A Character-Space of One's Own | Angell Hall Room 3222
200-345 - Narratives in Transit | Clark Library Presentation Space

And a keynote by Miranda Burgess (University of British Columbia) entitled "Accustomed Circuits: Austen and Romantic Transport at pm in Hatcher Library Gallery.

Attendance is free but we ask that participants register online (see conference webpage) by January 10 if possible to secure a complimentary lunch. Please contact austenmaps@gmail.com with any questions you might have.

This conference is offered in conjunction with the University of Michigan Library exhibit “The Life and Times of Lizzy Bennet,” and is made possible in large part due to the generous support of Leslie and Hillary Keyes through the Daniel Keyes Family Fund for the Special Collections Library.