"Arthur Miller and the American West"
Carlos Campo, Conference Organizer beside the splendid banner that welcomed conference participants.
Panels presented:
"The Trial of Willy Loman" John Esperian, Community College
of Southern Nevada
"Creating the Arthur Miller Project: Describing the process
of creating a new work based on the writings of Arthur Miller"
Jason Gerace and Susan Shaughnessy, University of Oklahoma
All My Sons: A Pre-production panel, led by Director
Jon Hennington
Teaching Arthur Miller: Discussion seminar, led by Susan Abbotson,
Rhode Island College
Keynote Speech: "Miller and The Misfits" Chris Bigsby, University
of East Anglia
Performance of All My Sons in the college theater by BackStage
Theater.
All My Sons: Literary Panel--
"From The Sign of the Archer to All My Sons." Brenda Murphy,
University of Connecticut
"Joe Keller and Howard Hughes: A Symbolic Reading of Arthur Miller's
All
My Sons" Joshua Polster, University of Washington
"Miller's Women in the Garden" Tina Eliopulos and Todd Moffett, Community
College of Southern Nevada
All My Sons: A Post-production panel, led by Director
Jon Hennington
The Misfits: Literary Panel--
"Paradise Keeps Slipping Back: The Misfits and After the
Fall" Ashis Sengupta, University of North Bengal, India
"Re-Visioning the Western: Landscape and Gender in The Misfits"
Georgiana Banita, University of Constance, Germany
"Wind Blew Down/Wind Came Up: "The Misfits" and the Imagery of Arthur
Miller" Stephen Marino, St. Francis College
Wine Tasting followed by screening of The Misfits.
"A Gunfight in Brooklyn: Teddy Roosevelt Meets Arthur Miller"
Doug Mishler
"There's No Place Like Home: Robert Frost and Arthur Miller"
George Monteiro
"Death of a Salesman and the Small Business Administration:
The Little Guy in Mid-Century American Culture" Michael Tavel Clarke, University
of Calgary, Canada
"Miller's Shorts: The Uncollected Stories--Dirty Laundry or Brilliant
Gems?" Susan Abbotson, Rhode Island College
"Marilyn Monroe and the Embodiment of the West" Kate Egerton, Berea
College
"Gender Relations in Arthur Miller" Stephen Macauley, Utah State University
Arthur Miller Society Meeting
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of keynote speaker, Chris Bigsby |
Director Jon Hennington, ASM Tiara Coleman, and the famous "gazebo" during the post-production discussion of the campus production of All My Sons |
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Conference participants relaxing in the sun during a conference break | Enjoying a wine tasting event prior to screening of The Misfits |
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Carlos tasting his wine with the rest of us, and checking out the displays | Participants from around the globe gathered for the conference--represented here are Las Vegas, Canada, Germany and Wisconsin! |