ARCHIVE II--ALA CONFERENCES

Papers presented by the Arthur Miller Society at the American Literature Association Conferences.
 

  • May 30 1996, in San Diego, CA.

  •   Panel One: Society panel chaired by Brenda Murphy.
    1. "Death of a Salesman and the Poetics of Arthur Miller," Matthew Roudané.
    2. "Who's the Enemy Now?: The Relevance of An Enemy of the People a Century and a Half, Later," Jane Dominik.
    3. "The Holocaust, the Depression, and McCathyism Haunt Miller in the Sixties," Jan Balakian
     
  • May 23-25, 1997.

  •     Panel One: "Arthur Miller's Artistry in Drama: A Half Century and Beyond," chaired by Stan Kozikowski.
    1. "'The Hook, the Bridge, and The Waterfront':  Miller, Kazan, and Informers," Brenda Murphy.
    2. "Miller's Women and the Roles They Play," Steve Centola.
    3.  "The Price: The Continuing Fraternal Tragedy," Jane Dominik.
     
  • May 1998 in San Diego, CA.

  •     Panel One: "Arthur MIller and the Art of Disconcertion," chaired by Susan C. W. Abbotson.
    1. "The Holocaust, the Depression, and McCathyism Haunt Miller in the Sixties," Jan Balakian.
    2. "'Raising Up a Whore': The Dramatic and Cultural Construction of Abigail Williams," Kim Cook.
    3. "'Of course it isn't, but that's where it comes from': Creation of Hysteria and Other Business in Arthur Miller's Broken Glass," Kate Egerton.
     
  • May 1999

  •     Panel One: "Moral Drama or Political Allegory: Ways of Seeing the Plays of Arthur Miller," chaired by Jan Balakian.
    1. "The Cold War on the Waterfront: Miller's A View from the Bridge and Elia Kazan's On the Waterfront, " Robert Shulman.
    2. "Death of a Salesman: The Poetic of the Colloquial," Stephen Marino.
    3. "Living the Wrong Life: Arthur Miller's Danger: Memory!" Jon Tuttle.
     
  • May 26- 27 2001, in Cambridge MA.

  •    Panel One: "This is the land of the great big dogs, you don’t love a man here, you eat him!": Friends and Enemies in the Drama and Fiction of Arthur Miller," chaired by Stephen Marino.
    1."The Sense of Complicity in Focus and After the Fall," Ana Lucia Novais.
    2."The Common Enemy in Arthur Miller’s and Lillian Hellman’s Cold War Plays," Richard Brucher.
    3."Miller and the Importance of Friendship," Carlos Campo.
       Panel Two: "The Ambiguity of Thought: Arthur Miller's Psychological Duplicity," chaired by Susan C. W. Abbotson.
    1."Not Only the Inside of Willy’s Head," Stephen Marino.
    2."Sympathetic Objectification: Mistresses in Miller’s Plays," Jane Dominik.
    3. "Bakhtinian Heteroglossia in The Archbishop's Ceiling,"  George Castellitto.
     
  • On May 30-June  2, 2002, Long Beach, CA.

  •     Panel One: "Arthur Miller’s Ethical Engagement: A Humanist’s Response,"  chaired by : J. Chris Westgate.
    1. "Arthur Miller’s Diasporist Engagements in Incident at Vichy," Neamat Imam*
    2. "The Dehumanization of the Salesmen: Willy Loman and Gregor Samsa," Carlos Campo.
    3. "Negotiating an Ethics between Remembering and Forgetting: A Reading of After the Fall," Ryan Poll.
                        *Neamat Imam from  Aristotle University, coming in from Greece, was not allowed a visa
                              to attend the conference, but his paper was read by the panel chair
     
  • On May 22-25, 2003, Cambridge, MA.

  •     Panel One: Seminar on "Teaching Arthur Miller: Text, Subtext, and Context."
    Panelists: Steven Centola, Millersville University; Stephen Marino, St. Francis College; Carlos Campo, Community College of Southern Nevada.
        Panel Two: "Radio Drama, Short Stories and Plays: Connective Relationships in the Works of Arthur Miller," chaired by
        George Castellitto, Felician College
    1. "'Family Romances' and the Struggle to Form Desire as Depicted in Arthur Miller’s Short  Story 'I Don’t Need You Anymore,'" Lew Livesay.
    2. "The Nature of the Beast: An Examination of The Pussycat and the Expert Plumber Who Was a Man,by Arthur Miller," Rick Tharp.
    3. "Materialism, Socialism and Paternal Conflict in Arthur Miller’s All My Sons," Susan C. W. Abbotson.
     
  • On May 27-30, 2004, San Francisco, CA.

  •     Panel One: Seminar on "Teaching Arthur Miller: the Usual and the New."
        Chaired by: Susan C. W. Abbotson, Independent Scholar, RI.
    Panelists: Carlos Campo, Community College of Southern Nevada, and Peter Hays, University of California at Davis.
        Panel Two: "Naming, Rituals and Music--Beyond the Written Texts of Arthur Miller."
        Chaired by Jeffrey D. Mason, University of Oregon.
    1. "Arthur Miller's Naming of Names," Steve Marino
    2. "Arthur Miller 'Clara': The 'Fine' Line Between Guilt and Blame," Susan C. W. Abbotson.
    3. "Music in Miller's Drama," Jane Dominik.
     
  • On May 26-29, 2005, Boston, MA

  •      Panel One: Teaching Panel: Teaching Miller in Multiple Contexts
         Chaired by: Lew Livesay,  President, Arthur Miller Society, Saint Peter's College.
    1. "Music, Miller and making the classroom sing," Carlos Campo, Community College of Southern Nevada. Accompanist: Brett Campo, Sierra Vista High School, Las Vegas.
    2. " Towards a Humanistic Democracy: The Balancing Acts of Arthur Miller and August Wilson," Susan C. W. Abbotson, Rhode Island College.
    3. " Arthur Miller's New York," Steven Marino, St Francis College.
        Panel Two: "Identity in Miller: Communities, Character and Connections.
        Chaired by: Dr. Carlos Campo, Community College of Southern Nevada
    1. "Arthur Miller and Jewish Identity," Ruth Tenenholtz, Haifa University, Israel.
    2. "The Secret Life of Willy Loman: A Thurber-Miller Connection," Susan Koprince, University of North Dakota-Grand Forks.
    3. " Pray for him:  "Communities, Characters, and Chaos in A View from the Bridge", Elizabeth Osborne, University of Maryland.

    •  On May 25-28, 2006, San Francisco, CA.
        Panel one: Reading and Response from selected Miller plays:
        Readers Dr. Carlos Campo, Community College of Southern Nevada, Dr. Jane Dominik, San Joaquin Delta College.
         Respondent: Lewis Livesay, Saint Peter’s College
        Panel two: The Sociological Impact of Selected Arthur Miller Works.
         Chair: Dr. Carlos Campo, Community College of Southern Nevada
    1. "Ibsen’s The Wild Duck and Miller’s All My Sons: Social Realism without a Centering Raissonneur," Lewis Livesay, Saint Peter’s College.
    2. "Using Family Systems Theory to Understand the Film Versions of The Crucible," Nancy Feyl Chavkin and Allan R. Chavkin, Texas State University—San Marcos.
    3. "Mining the ‘Beauty’ of "Homely Girl": Why Miller’s Small Masterpiece Deserves More Recognition," Ellyn Lem, University of Wisconsin—Waukesha.

    •  On May 25-28, 2007, Boston, MA.
        Panel one:
    Miller and Film
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    3. "Making Abigail Good: A Different Heroine for Different Times," Susan C. W. Abbotson, Rhode Island College
        Panel two:
    Teaching panel on Miller's plays.
    Moderated by: Susan C. W. Abbotson, Rhode Island College

    •  On May 22-26, 2008, San Francisco, CA.
        Panel one: Miller's Literary Connections
        Chair: Jan Balakian, Kean University

    1. "Home and Homelessness: Family and Myth in Shepard and Miller," Timothy O'Grady, University of Washington
    2. "Camus' The Fall and Miller's After the Fall," Carlos Campos, The College of Southern Nevada
    3. "The Metaphor of Time in Arthur Miller and August Wilson," Stephen Macauley, Utah State University
        Panel two
    : New Directions in Teaching and Scholarship in Arthur Miller Studies (A roundtable)

    Moderator:  Jane K. Dominik, San Joaquin Delta College
    A Roundtable Discussion examining new lines of scholarly inquiry of Miller's dramatic and other writings,
     their live productions and film adaptations, and their application to teaching.

    Participants: Jan Balakian, Kean University
    Carlos Campo, College of Southern Nevada
    Kate Egerton, Berea College
    Stephen Marino, St. Francis College/Editor of the Arthur Miller Journal

    •  On May 21-24, 2009, Boston, MA.
        Panel one: Adaptation and Arthur Miller
        Chair: Jan Balakian, Kean University
    1.    “Amos Poe's Neo-Noir Stage, or, Looking at Mamet through Miller's Eyes,” Johan Callens, Vrije Universiteit Brussel.
    2.    “Insisting on the truth: Arthur Miller’s adaptation of Ibsen’s An Enemy of the People,” Benedikte Berntzen, University of Oslo.
    3.    “Capitalist Community: From Ibsen's Enemy of the People to Miller's Enmity for the People,”Lewis Livesay, Saint Peter’s College.
        Panel two: Teaching History in American Drama
       Chair:
    George Castellitto, Felician College, New Jersey
    1.  "Historicizing Tennessee Williams," Susan Abbotson, Rhode Island College.
    2.  “Adapting to the Times: Salesman and the 1930s Theatres of Social Protest,”  Joshua Polster, Department of Performing Arts, Emerson College.
    3.  “The Time of Your Life in Context,”  Jan Balakian,  Kean University.