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This brief page highlights forthcoming activities or events organised by the Jane Austen Society during the course of the year, together with information on any issues or events not included on other pages of the website.

The links below direct you either to relevant content elsewhere on the website, or to a separate page providing further information.

• Jane Austen Postage Stamps : Special Royal Mail issue
  
  A set of Royal Mail Special Stamps was issued on the 21 February to celebrate the 200th anniversary of Pride and Prejudice.
  Further details (including images of the stamps) via the above link.
  
  
  

• The Jane Austen Society AGM : Saturday 20 July 2013
  
  Speaker: Professor Peter Sabor, McGill University, Montreal, Canada.
  Venue: Chawton House, Hampshire
  Further details via the above link.
  
  
  

• The Jane Austen Society Annual Conference : Thursday 5 to Sunday 8 September 2013
  
  The conference combines a wide range of lectures and presentations on the author and her writings, together with visits to venues in the region linked to the Regency period.
  Venue: Sussex University, Falmer, Brighton.
  Full details from the above link.
  
  
  

• Excavation at Steventon Rectory
  
  Latest developments on this extensive project to learn more about Jane Austen's Steventon home.
  Further details via the above link.
  
  
  

• Alliance of Literary Societies
  
  Their 2013 AGM will take place on Saturday 1 and Sunday 2 June at St Hilda's College in Oxford. Members of the Jane Austen Society are most welcome to attend.
  Further details via the above link.
  
  
  

• Call for Papers
  
  An invitation from the University of Hertfordshire to submit papers for presentation at their forthcoming Conference on Pride and Prejudice in July 2013.
  Full details from the above link.
  
  
  

• Jane Austen Society of the Netherlands
  
  The Jane Austen Society of the Netherlands is celebrating the 200th anniversary of Pride and Prejudice by naming a rose in her honour. Other lectures and related events are also planned for the month of June.
  Brief details currently available from the above link, with further information in due course.