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.

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, American Studies, ATHE--please contact our current President, Kate Egerton 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.

Modern Language Association
2011 Conference

Location and Dates:  Los Angeles, CA.  January 6-9, 2011


The Arthur Miller Society invites proposals for papers for a panel at the 2011 MLA Conference. Participants will be selected with the primary goal of providing innovating and illuminating work on the following theme:

Panel Theme: New Perspectives on Arthur Miller

This panel will provide new perspectives on the styles, structures, and significations of Arthur Miller’s plays and productions to advance future studies and productions. Previous studies have been important to comprehend the past and current discussions on Miller, but the interest of this panel is to bring new perspectives to his work to demonstrate the continued vitality of Miller plays, productions and scholarship.

Special consideration will be made for papers that discuss how Miller’s work engages with the 2011 MLA president’s theme Narrating Lives: “Exploring the narration of lives engages broad theoretical issues of trauma and memory, authenticity and truth telling, ethical accountability, modes of intersubjectivity, remediation, and the cultural uses of narration. It foregrounds temporal and geographic dimensions of the traffic in lives and narratives through reception studies and studies of transnational and translational routes of circulation. And it tests methodological approaches to narration, reading practices, and reading communities.”

According to MLA policy, in order to participate in the panel, you must be a member of MLA by April 1.

Please direct all proposals and queries to:

Joshua Polster
Emerson College
Joshua_Polster@emerson.edu

Please submit proposals by email in Word format. Proposals should include the following items:

-    Name and Title (student, faculty, independent scholar)
-    Academic Affiliation
-    Contact Information
-    Title of Paper
-    Requested Panel
-    Abstract (please limit abstracts to 300 words)
-    Audiovisual Requests

All proposals must be received by March 10, 2010.

Please see the MLA website for the complete call.



Kean University will host the 2nd. International Conference on American Drama
29-30 October 2010
1000 Morris Avenue  •  Union, NJ 07083
908-737-KEAN (5326)

Kean's Theater Department will be producing Our Town with a professional director from NYC, and a conference will be built around this that focuses on American drama and culture. Send proposals to Jan Balakian.  Deadline for submission of abstracts--now extended to:  12 March 2010. The campus is a short distance from Newark International Airport, and with a train to NYC on campus, so you will also have the opportunity to see a New York Play of your choice.
Suggested papers/panels on the following:

*Reading Our Town from a variety of approaches
*A panel that reads an American play from a variety of approaches
*Culture, History, and/or Politics in American Drama
*American Women Playwrights
*Ethnic-American Playwrights
*Contemporary American Playwrights
*If you have personal contacts to playwrights and can invite them,
 please do so!
*Successful approaches to teaching an American play
* Jersey as a locale for American plays
*Performance and American Theater
*Reading of a new American Play

To reserve a room, please contact Hilton Newark Airport, Joseph.incognito@Hilton.com and mention the American Drama Conference, 1170 Spring Street, Elizabeth, New Jersey, United States 07201-2114/Tel: Phone: 908-820-2962; Rooms are $119. Joseph has also reserved the day before and after for those coming from a distance.  There will be a shuttle bus going from the hotel to campus.

To learn more about the Kean location and accessible train to NYC, go to the University website. Participants should arrange to have their books ordered to sell/display at Kean's bookstore, which is a Barnes & Noble store.  Bob Jungdahl is the manager and can be contacted at:  kean@bkstore.com

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 contributed abstracts for our panels at the 21st ALA Conference
in San Francisco, CA,
May 27-30, 2010.
Details of our selections coming soon.
Contact Joshua Polster for additional information.
Check out the American Literature Association website for general conference details.


Jan Balakian is organizing the 2nd International American Drama Conference at Kean University, NJ
for 29-30 October, 2010--see above for submission details.
To reserve a room, please contact Hilton Newark Airport, Joseph.incognito@Hilton.com
And mention the American Drama Conference, 1170 Spring Street, Elizabeth, New Jersey, United States 07201-2114/Tel: Phone: 908-820-2962; Rooms are $119. Joseph has also reserved the day before and after for those coming from a distance.  There will be a shuttle bus going from the hotel to campus.


Also consider putting together a panel on Miller and O'Neill for the upcoming
International Eugene O'Neill Conference currently in planning for Greenwich Village, NY in 2011.

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 2010
  • Special Events/News/Releases for 2010 (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)