MILLER EVENTS
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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 past, current and future events so that people can use this as an archive. Send information to Sue Abbotson. We try to keep only upcoming events on this page--but you can link in each section to archive pages for information on past conference papers, productions and events.

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

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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, SAMLA, American Studies, ATHE--please contact our current President, Sue Abbotson, 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.

CFP: Topic
Arthur Miller, the Self, and Conceptions of Tragedy

Recent research in cognitive science provides new conceptions of how the brain constructs a person's self, a theme that long has been explored in a different way by dramatists. The construction of the self and the ways in which the self is challenged and collapses is fundamental to any writer's conception of tragedy. In addition, people's sense of self serves as the foundation of their moral visions of how they should engage with the world. Thus the means by which a character constructs a self, the character's vision of personal virtue and morality, and the ways in which confusions in these concepts lead to the character’s downfall all are intertwined in any well-crafted tragedy.

The Arthur Miller Society invites papers on two themes for its proposed panel at the MLA Convention: 1) How the self, moral vision, and tragedy are related in the plays of Arthur Miller, and 2) Comparisons of Miller's vision of these three elements to the visions of other dramatists and writers. Abstracts of less than 500 words should be emailed to David Palmer, Humanities Department, Massachusetts Maritime Academy: dpalmer@maritime.edu. The deadline for submitting a proposal is March 15, 2013.

Please note that to be eligible to present a paper at the MLA Convention in January 2014, you must be a member of the MLA by April 7, 2013.
Additional information about the MLA 2014 Convention and membership in the MLA is available on the MLA website:  http://www.mla.org/


CFP: Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA) convention,
Harrisburg, PA, on April 3-6 2014.

Session Title: Arthur Miller: An American Gadfly (sponsored by Arthur Miller Society)
Like Socrates and Ibsen, Arthur Miller was a gadfly to the society in which he lived.  He used both his art and his presence as a public intellectual to explore the foundations of American values and to reveal areas of ambivalence, inconsistency, and hypocrisy. Perhaps more than any other American dramatist, he understood the ways in which broad national values and ideals – which often are incompatible with each other – create both opportunities and psychological burdens for Americans. He challenged his audiences to confront authentically both the foundations and the consequences of these values, without embracing mere national mythology or disregarding the moral outcomes that commitment to these ideals engenders. This panel invites papers on the depiction of American ideals and the ways in which characters struggle to make these ideals coherent parts of their lives in Miller’s plays and fiction.It also encourages papers on Miller’s engagement with American ideals in his activities as a public intellectual, for example during the McCarthy Era or his opposition to the Vietnam War.
Papers also are welcomed on Miller’s confrontation with these ideals in his personal life, such as his friendship with Elia Kazan or his marriages. Papers will be welcomed that compare Miller’s views of American ideals to the views of other writers. Proposals of no more than 300 words should be emailed by September 30, 2013, to David Palmer, Humanities Department, Massachusetts Maritime Academy: dpalmer@maritime.edu.


AJS 45th Annual Conference
December 15-17, 2013 • Boston, MA
Sheraton Boston

Anyone interested in offering this panel (below) a paper on any of Miller's Holocaust plays?

Affect and Witnessing in Holocaust Literature
Whether predicting the destruction of European Jewry or responding to the tragedy, Holocaust literature has been inevitably reader-oriented because it wishes to inform and to teach about an unprecedented historical event. Since the phenomenon of the Final Solution has no point of reference in human history, the rhetoric employed by writers is of utmost importance. Our panel proposes to study the lessons that writers wished to teach and the rhetorical devices they were searching for or experimenting with to communicate their message. Rachel Brenner will discuss the re-humanizing impact of the Jewish plight on the emotionally numbed, ethically diminished Polish characters in first person narrative stories in early postwar Polish literature by the writers Jozef Mackiewicz, Tadeusz Borowski, and Kornel Filipowicz; Rosemary Horowitz will focus on the language of pathos in Yankev Glatshteyn's 1940 novel for young adult readers, Emil and Karl. We are seeking two additional panelists for our session. Contact horowitzr@appstate.edu or brenner@wisc.edu for more information

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 in the archive link below for Special Events/News/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 Conference, taken by Dr. Jeffrey Mason, University of Oregon.
 

Conferences and Panels:
  (Link to AMS conference archive) (Link to ALA archive
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American Literature Association
24th Annual Conference
Boston, Massachusetts
May 23-26, 2013

Arthur Miller Society Panels


The Theater of Engagement: Arthur Miller and the Contemporary Mind
At the American Literature Association meeting in Boston in May, the Arthur Miller Society will join with five other drama societies in focusing on the theme of “Theater of Engagement.” The other societies involved are
The cooperation among these societies will culminate in a round-table discussion of the theater of engagement including representatives from each society. The Arthur Miller Society will be represented by Joshua Polster of Emerson College, a past president of the Arthur Miller Society and a current member of the society’s board. This will take place Friday, May 24 Session 11-C  2:10 - 3:30 p.m.

In addition, the society will host two panels devoted specifically to Miller’s works:

Panel 1: Arthur Miller’s Perspectives on Theater and History: Saturday, May 25 Session 14-L  8:00 - 9:20 a.m.

Chair: Stephen Marino, St. Francis College, Editor of the Arthur Miller Journal
1. Jane K. Dominik, San Joaquin Delta College. “From Stage to Page: Re-conceptualizing the Play”
2. Garin Cycholl, University of Chicago. “‘The Peculiar Immediacy of Image’: On the Disintegration of Forms in The Misfits.”
3. Marla Britton-Johnson, Texas Tech University. “The Chasm Between History and Character: On the Aufseherinnen of Playing for Time.”
4. C. Ryan Knight, Randolph Community College. “Administrative Evil in Arthur Miller’s Plays.”

Arthur Miller Society meeting during Session 17-N, Saturday, May 25, 12:30 - 1:50--all welcome, you need not be a member to attend.

Panel 2 : Perspectives on Willy Loman: Saturday, May 25 Session 19-C 3:30 - 4:50 p.m.

Chair: Susan C. W. Abbotson, Rhode Island College, President of the Arthur Miller Society
1. Lewis Livesay, Saint Peter’s University “Miller’s Tragic Vision and the Phenomenology of Shame.”
2. Susan Harris Smith, University of Pittsburgh. “Who Was/Is/Are Willy Loman?”
3. Rong Ou, Hangzhou Normal University, China. Death of a Salesman in Beijing.”
4. Janet Balakian, Kean University. “Teaching Death of a Salesman in 2013.”


Additional information about the conference may be found at the American Literature Association (ALA) website (http://americanliterature.org).


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)

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    Inside the Arthur Miller Theater at the University of Michigan

    Recent Books on Miller (2005--current)