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 both current and past events so people can use this as an archive. Send information to Sue Abbotson.

We try to keep only upcoming events on this page--otherwise you can link to separate pages to see past conference papers, productions and events, thus the material is archived without this page becoming too large.  Please feel free to inform us of past events to add to these archives as well as anything else that is coming up.

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.



Jan Balakian is currently planning to hold an American Drama Conference at Kean University, NJ, Fall 2010. Kean's Theater Department will be producing Our Town with a professional director from NYC, and the plan is to build a conference around this that focuses on American drama and American culture--a kind of an American studies approach.  Some preference will be given to panels on women playwrights, and one on Our Town. 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

Watch this space for more details.


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 below under Special Events/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

HJEAS are currently inviting proposals for contributions to a special issue in honor of Edward Albee’s 50-year dramatic career on the American stage. Edward Albee: Fifty Years on the American Stage will focus primarily on Albee’s recent dramatic output, especially his most recent highly innovative plays, and will explore to what extent Albee can be associated with postmodernism. The topics of essays may include (but are not restricted to):

-    Albee as a social critic in the postmodern era;
-    Albee and the postmodern stage (postmodern strategies, ideas, and a variety of dramatic techniques);
-    shifts in the portrayal of women;
-    recurrent and modified tropes;
-    the increasing use of the fantastic;
-    recurrence and discontinuity of persistent themes in the Albee canon;
-    Hungarian productions and reception of Albee’s recent plays. 

Deadline for Proposals (300 words): February 15, 2009
Deadline for completed essays: September 1, 2009
Send all inquiries to the Guest Editor of the special issue: Lenke Németh,


Below are photographs of Mr. Miller from the 9th International Arthur Miller Conf., taken by Dr. Jeffrey Mason, University of Oregon.
 

Conferences and Panels:  (Link to AMS conference archive) (Link to ALA archive)

Thanks to all who attended our panels at 20th ALA Conference in Boston, MA.
May 21-24, 2009 at Westin Copley Place
Check out the American Literature Association website for general conference details.

Jan Balakian is currently planning an American Drama Conference at Kean University, NJ
for Fall 2010--watch this space for upcoming details.

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: 

  • During 2010
  • During 2009
  • Special Events/Releases 2009 (Link to Archive for past years)

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    Inside the new Arthur Miller Theater at the University of Michigan
    Recent Books on Miller