MILLER EVENTS

Scroll down to view Calls for papers, Conferences and panels, Current productions, and Special events, as well as links to archives for past events.
We would appreciate it if you could send us any current information for the following categories to make them as detailed as possible; include both current and past events so people can use this as an archive. Send information to Sue Abbotson.

We try to keep only upcoming events on this page--otherwise you can link to separate pages to see past conference papers, productions and events, thus the material is archived without this page becoming too large.  Please feel free to inform us of past events to add to these archives as well as anything else that is coming up.

N.B.  For information on the  Arthur Miller Journal--including how to subscribe
and contents for previously published isssues,  go to the Journal website.

The Arthur Miller Theater at the University of Michigan

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Calls For Papers:
The Arthur Miller Society is always looking for anyone who would like to organize Miller panels at other conferences, such as MLA, American Studies, ATHE--please contact our current President, Kate Egerton with proposals/details.

Ongoing CFP:
Looking for papers on any aspect of the life and work of Arthur Miller for the Arthur Miller Journal published Spring and Fall. Go to the Journal page for details.
The Journal also publishes book and production reviews.  If a Miller play is being produced in your area (check the listings below)--feel free to go and see it and send in your review to Sue Abbotson, Performance Review Editor of the Journal.

Contact the respective editors for more information--all contact info. on the Journal page.


Call For Papers

American Literature Association

Location and Dates:  San Francisco, CA.  May 27-30, 2010

The Arthur Miller Society will be hosting two panels at the 2010 ALA Conference. Participants will be selected with the primary goal of providing innovating and illuminating work on the following theme:

1st Panel Theme: Intertextual Exchange
The Five Drama Societies – the American Theatre and Drama Society, the Susan Glaspell Society, the Arthur Miller Society, the Eugene O’Neill Society, and the Thornton Wilder Society – will present a series of panels and roundtable discussions on the theme of Intertextual Exchange, conceived in the broadest sense. For this collaborative series, The Arthur Miller Society seeks 15-minute papers that explore direct and less overt textual connections between Miller (the playwright, his plays and productions) and other authors of various mediums. Preference will be given to submission topics of interest to the other dramatist societies involved.

2nd Panel--Open Topic

Please direct all proposals and queries to:


Joshua Polster
Emerson College

Please submit proposals by email in Word format. Proposals should include the following items:
-    Name and Title (student, faculty, independent scholar)
-    Academic Affiliation
-    Contact Information
-    Title of Paper
-    Requested Panel
-    Abstract (please limit abstracts to 250 words)
-    Audiovisual Requests

All proposals must be received by December 15th 2009.

Please see the ALA website for the complete call.

Kean University will host the 2nd. International Conference on American Drama
29-30 October 2010
1000 Morris Avenue  •  Union, NJ 07083
908-737-KEAN (5326)

Kean's Theater Department will be producing Our Town with a professional director from NYC, and a conference will be built around this that focuses on American drama and culture. Send proposals to Jan Balakian.  Deadline for submission of abstracts:  4 Feb. 2010. The campus is a short distance from Newark International Airport, and with a train to NYC on campus, so you will also have the opportunity to see a New York Play of your choice.
Suggested papers/panels on the following:

*Reading Our Town from a variety of approaches
*A panel that reads an American play from a variety of approaches
*Culture, History, and/or Politics in American Drama
*American Women Playwrights
*Ethnic-American Playwrights
*Contemporary American Playwrights
*If you have personal contacts to playwrights and can invite them,
 please do so!
*Successful approaches to teaching an American play
* Jersey as a locale for American plays
*Performance and American Theater
*Reading of a new American Play

To reserve a room, please contact Hilton Newark Airport, Joseph.incognito@Hilton.com and mention the American Drama Conference, 1170 Spring Street, Elizabeth, New Jersey, United States 07201-2114/Tel: Phone: 908-820-2962; Rooms are $119. Joseph has also reserved the day before and after for those coming from a distance.  There will be a shuttle bus going from the hotel to campus.

To learn more about the Kean location and accessible train to NYC, go to the University website. Participants should arrange to have their books ordered to sell/display at Kean's bookstore, which is a Barnes & Noble store.  Bob Jungdahl is the manager and can be contacted at:  kean@bkstore.com

Hungarian Journal of English and American Studies  published near the close of 2006 a special Arthur Miller Edition: Volume 11, Number 2 (2005):  ISSN:  12 18-7364  that contains several new essays on Miller's work--see details below under Special Events/Releases 2007 regarding how to order yourself a copy.  The Journal is meanwhile looking for further submissions:  Manuscripts should conform to the latest edition of the MLA Handbook in all matters of style (parenthetical citations keyed to a works-cited list). Contributions on history should conform to the latest edition of the Chicago Manual of Style. All submissions should be sent together with a disk copy of the article in Word 95 for Windows. All correspondence should be addressed to the Editor, HJEAS, University of Debrecen, Pf. 73, Hungary 4010; e-mail: abnagyzo@delfin.unideb.hu

Below are photographs of Mr. Miller from the 9th International Arthur Miller Conf., taken by Dr. Jeffrey Mason, University of Oregon.
 

Conferences and Panels:  (Link to AMS conference archive) (Link to ALA archive)

Thanks to all who attended our panels at 20th ALA Conference in Boston, MA.
May 21-24, 2009 at Westin Copley Place.
Check out the American Literature Association website for general conference details.
CFP above for the two Miller Society Panels for May 2010 in San Francisco, CA.

Jan Balakian is organizing the 2nd International American Drama Conference at Kean University, NJ
for 29-30 October, 2010--see above for submission details.
To reserve a room, please contact Hilton Newark Airport, Joseph.incognito@Hilton.com
And mention the American Drama Conference, 1170 Spring Street, Elizabeth, New Jersey, United States 07201-2114/Tel: Phone: 908-820-2962; Rooms are $119. Joseph has also reserved the day before and after for those coming from a distance.  There will be a shuttle bus going from the hotel to campus.


Also consider putting together a panel on Miller and O'Neill for the upcoming
International Eugene O'Neill Conference currently in planning for Greenwich Village, NY in 2011.

William Inge Theater
millertree
plaque
Outside the William Inge Theatre they have
planted a tree for each past Honoree of the
William Inge Festival Achievement Award
who has passed on.
The tree they planted in Miller's
memory right outside the
William Inge Theatre in
Independence, Kansas.
Here is the plaque at the base of the tree.

Current Stage Productions (Link to Archive)

FILM NEWS: 

  • During 2010
  • During 2009
  • Special Events/Releases 2009 (Link to Archive for past years)

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