"Miller and Middle America"
Keynote Speaker: Christopher Bigsby: "Listening to America"
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Chrsitopher Bigsby, Keynote Speaker.
Photograph by Sarah Marquardt |
Paula Langteau, the Conference Director.
Photograph by Sarah Marquardt |
Panels presented:
The American Ideal: Cracks Beneath the Surface
Stephen Marino: "Physician Heal Thyself: Arthur Millerís Portrayal
of Doctors"
Carlos Campo: "Miller, Marriage, and Middle America: An Uneasy Embrace"
Katherine L. Basham: "'Faith-in-Life' in Three Arthur Miller Plays
and in His Non-Fiction Prose"
American Realities: Memory, Perceptions and Posturing
Ashis Sengupta: "The Late Plays of Arthur Miller: Problematizing the
Real"
Susan C.W. Abbotson: "The Dangers of Memory in Arthur Millerís 'I Canít
Remember Anything'"
Paula Langteau: "A Lethal Legacy of Liberal Posturing in Arthur Millerís
'Clara'"
American Landscapes: Urban and Rural in Word and Image
George Castellitto: "Arthur Miller and the Language of Middle America"
William Smith: "Figuring our Past and Present in Wood: Wood Imagery
in Arthur Millerís The Crucible and Death of a Salesman"
William Smith: "Damn Yankee! Leroy Hamilton Crafts Wood with
Passion and Honesty, But Who in Modern America Cares?"
Miller and the American Historical Experience
Lew Livesay: "Hegemony, Hatred, and the Scapegoat Mechanism in The
Crucible and Playing for Time"
Frank Bergmann: "'Somewhere down deep where the sources are': Traces
of the Snyder/Gray Murder Trial of 1927 in Death of a Salesman?"
Kimberley Jenkins: "Discussing A View from the Bridge and Arthur
Miller in a Post-9/11 World"
Middle American Repression of Select Miller Women
Nicole Whitman: "Linda Loman: Reading Between the Lines"
A Student Roundtable Discussion on women in Death of a Salesman
and The Crucible, moderated by Katharine MacKenzie of Cooper
School, with Nicolet College Students: Kristin Bassett, Christy Biermier,
Trish Goverville, Shandra Hubertus, Mary Kay Mullins, Melissa Schallock,
& Martha Walentowski
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The Student Roundtable Discussion | Carlos Campo presenting a paper
Photograph by Sarah Marquardt |
Closing Address by Steven R. Centola: "Arthur Miller: Guardian of the Dream of America"
Other Activities: Participants also attended a preview performance of
The
Last Yankee, performed by the Nicolet Players, and a talk-back session
with director and cast following the play. The short film
The
Reason Why was also shown.
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Meeting of the Arthur Miller Society at Rhinelander, Wisconsin | Society Officers at Wisconsin in front of a Rhinelander "Hodag" |