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 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.
  Also check out the call for papers for a special edition in 2012 focussing on The Crucible, both here and on 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, SAMLA, American Studies, ATHE--please contact our current President, Josh Polster, 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.

American Literature Association 2012--23rd Annual Conference
May 24-28, 2012
Hyatt Regency San Francisco in Embarcadero Center
  5 Embarcadero Center
San Francisco CA 94111

The Arthur Miller Society usually presents two panels--please send abstracts on any topic connected to the works of Arthur Miller, or convey your interest, to Josh Polster by January 15, 2012.

Check out the American Literature Association website for general conference details.


Special Double Issue of the Arthur Miller Journal

In anticipation of the sixtieth anniversary of the Broadway premier of The Crucible, the AMJ will publish volume 7, nos. 1 and 2, in a special double issue in the Fall of 2012. The editors invite essays on the significance of Miller's controversial drama about the Salem Witch Trials and the Communist Witch Hunts of the 1950s. We are interested in essays that explore all aspects of the play: textual analyses, performance issues, productions. We also welcome discussions that include political, social, historical and cultural approaches, the legacy of McCarthyism, HUAC, and blacklisting. We also anticipate new explorations of the play's relevance to Miller's life and canon. Deadline for submission to this edition is June 2012.
Essays should conform to the MLA Style Manual. Essays will be blind vetted; include your name only on a front page.
Essays and Notes can be sent as email attachments to: Stephen Marino.
Books for review and book reviews can be sent directly to the Book Review Editor: George Castellitto
Production, Film and Performance reviews to the Performance Review Editor: Susan Abbotson.


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
)

Thanks to all who came to our panels at the 2011 American Literature Association Annual Conference this past May. We hope you enjoyed the interesting presentations and discussions, and hope to see you next year in San Francisco--see CFP above.

Session 19-F  Dramatizing Ideas in the Plays of Arthur Miller
Chair George Castellitto, Felician College
1. "Internalizing the Jew: Otherness and Embodiment in Miller's Incident at Vichy." Lew Livesay, Saint Peter's College
2. "I Still Feel – Kind of Temporary About Myself: The Self, the Experience of Truth, and Two Visions of Tragedy in the Works of Arthur Miller." David Palmer, Massachusetts Maritime Academy
3. "Stage For Action: Arthur Miller‘s Social Activist Foundation." Chrystyna Dail, Pennsylvania State University

Session 20-B    Focus on Focus: A Panel on Arthur Miller's 1945 Novel about Anti-Semitism.
 Chair George Castellitto, Felician College
1. "In Closer Focus: Book, Film and TV." Sue Abbotson, Rhode Island College (with clips from the 1962 TV version)
2. "Focus: Teaching Miller's Neglected Work." Joint discussion by Stephen Marino, St. Francis College, and Joshua Polster, Emerson College


Thanks to all who attended "O'Neill in Bohemia" in Greenwich Village, this past June. The Society presented a highly successful panel with the following papers:
Comparative Studies of the Works of Eugene O’Neill and Arthur Miller
1. Joshua Polster, Emerson College: “Expressionism in O’Neill's The Hairy Ape and Miller’s A Memory of Two Mondays
2. Stephen Marino, St. Francis College: “Primogeniture in the Plays of Eugene O’Neill and Arthur Miller”
3. Susan C. W. Abbotson, Rhode Island College: “Willy Loman’s Long Night’s Journey Into Day"

  

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: 

STAGE NEWS:
  • During 2012
  • Special Events/News/Releases for 2012 (Link to Archive for past years)

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    Inside the Arthur Miller Theater at the University of Michigan
    Recent Books on Miller (2005--current)