The Arthur Miller Centennial Conference
October 16-18, 2015
Saint Francis College
Brooklyn Heights, New York
Friday, October 16
6:00 p.m.:
Registration and President’s Reception
Lee and Peter Callahan Conference Center
7:00 p.m.:
Welcome
Founders Hall
Brendan Dugan, President, Saint Francis College
Timothy Houlihan, Provost, Saint Francis College
7:15 p.m.:
Founders Hall
Keynote Address,
Christopher Bigsby, University of East Anglia
“Performance and Arthur Miller.”
8:30 p.m:
Joan Copeland in Performance
Q&A
Founders Hall
Saturday, October 17
8:00 - 9:00 a.m.:
Registration and Breakfast
Lee and Peter Callahan Conference Center
All sessions are located in the Frank and Mary Macchiarola Academic Center
Session I A: 9:00-10:20 a.m.
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Miller’s Guiding Principles
Chair: Jackson Bryer, University of Maryland
Brenda Murphy, University of Connecticut
“Situation Normal... and the Transformation of Arthur Miller.”
Joshua Polster, Emerson College
“Arthur Miller and his Theatre of Engagement.”
Sylvia Kasey Marks, NYU Polytechnic School of Engineering
“I Don’t Need You Any More: The Past in Arthur Miller’s Fiction.”
Session I B: 9:00-10:20 a.m.
Global Milller I
Chair: Anthony Giffone, Farmingdale State College
Barbara L. Allen and Jerome J. LaBatte, Ohio Dominican University
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“Through Unbiased Eyes: Arthur Miller and Inge Morath’s Collaborative Study
Of Foreign Cultures.”
Stephen Macauley
“A West African Reading of Arthur Miller.”
Nicole De Sapio, Independent Scholar
“The Humanities amidst Inhumanity: Incident at Vichy and The Pianist.”
Session I C: 9:00-10:20 a.m.
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Intersections of Form and Philosophy
Chair: George Castellitto, Felician College
Frank Bergmann, Utica College
“The Creation of the World and Other Business: Archetype and the Rhythm of Decorum”
Peter Costello, Providence College
“Miller’s Resurrection Blues: On Repetition, Textuality, and Action.”
Ewerton Silva De Oliveira, University of São Paulo
“Arthur Miller’s The American Clock: Two Versions, Some Differences.”
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Session II A: 10:30-11:50 a.m.
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Masculine and Feminine at Odds
Chair: Janet Balakian, Kean University
Claire Gleitman, Ithaca College
“‘The guy ain’t right’: Delimiting Masculinity in Arthur Miller’s
A View from the Bridge.”
Stefani Koorey, Independent Scholar
“Arthur Miller Unzipped.”
Patricia Rossi, Independent Scholar
“The Subtle Threads of Arthur Miller –An Analysis of the Feminine Portrayal”
Session II B: 10:30-11:50 a.m.
Comparative Approaches
Chair: Lew Livesay, St. Peter’s University
Ann C. Hall, Ohio Dominican University
“The Times They are A Changin’: Arthur Miller, Harold Pinter, and Politics.”
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Eliot White, Millersville University
“‘We Who Are Without Kings’: Reframing Dialogic Interplay between August Wilson’s
Fences and Arthur Miller’s Death of A Salesman”
Brian Reinking, Indiana University of Pennsylvania
“Turpentine Still”
Dwayne David Paul, Saint Peter’s University
“Razing Sites of Memory and Recalling Their Past: Rereading Miller’s The Price through
the Lens of Gentrified Brooklyn”
Session II C: 10:30-11:50 a.m.
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Perspectives on Death of a Salesman
Chair: Matthew Roudané, Georgia State University
Peter Hays, University of California, Davis
“Salesman as Rorschach”
Brian Mazeski, Stony Brook University
“Sea Imagery in Death of a Salesman”
George Monteiro, Brown University
“Football, Gold, and Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman”
Noon
Lunch
Lee and Peter Callahan Conference Center
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Session III A: 1:00-2:20 p.m.
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Cognitive Cultural Studies Approach to Analysis of Miller's Plays
Chair: Gregory Tague, Saint Francis College
Bruce McConachie, University of Pittsburgh:
“Conceptual Blending and Day-Lewis’s Proctor in The Crucible.”
Patrick Colm Hogan, University of Connecticut:
“Simulation and the Structure of Emotional Memory: Learning from After the Fall."
David Palmer, Massachusetts Maritime Academy
“From the First Yankees to The Last Yankee: Narrative Brains, America's Puritan
Heritage, and Miller's Conception of Tragedy.”
Session III B: 1:00-2:20 p.m.
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Panel Discussion:
“Incorporating Arthur Miller into Contemporary High School Curriculum
through His Plays, The Crucible, Death of a Salesman, and Incident at Vichy.”
Participants: Shannon Hunt, Devani Roe, Myra Warne, and Ann C. Hall
Ohio Dominican University
Session III C: 1:00-2:20 p.m.
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A Conversation with Louis Zorich. The legendary actor will speak about his career and
role as Ben in the 1984 Death of a Salesman.
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Plenary Sessions
Maroney Forum for Arts, Culture and Education
7th Floor, Frank and Mary Macchiarola Academic Center
Session IV 2:30-3:45 p.m.
Playwrights’ Panel
Moderator: Christopher Bigsby
The playwrights Emily Mann and Sheri Wilner discuss the influence of Arthur Miller,
their own work, and the state of American drama.
Session V 4:00 - 5:20 p.m.
Discussion Group: “What Makes a Great American Playwright?”
Moderator: Janet Balakian, Kean University
The distinguished drama scholars Susan Abbotson (Rhode Island College), Christopher
Bigsby (University of East Anglia), Enoch Brater (University of Michigan), Jackson
Bryer (University of Maryland), Robert Dowling (Central Connecticut State
University), Lincoln Konkle (The College of New Jersey), Brenda Murphy (University
of Connecticut), and Matthew Roudané (Georgia State University) consider how and
why certain playwrights become part of the American canon.
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Session VI 8:00 p.m. Staged Reading
A View From the Bridge
World Premiere of Syrian/Muslim version
Directed by Brooke Ciardelli
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Founders Hall
Sunday, October 18
8:00 -9:00 a.m.:
Registration and Breakfast
Lee and Peter Callahan Conference Center
Breakfast Meeting of the Arthur Miller Society All Welcome!
9:00-10:15 a.m.
A Walking Tour of Arthur Miller’s Brooklyn Heights’ Residences
Conducted by Stephen Marino
Please meet in front of Saint Francis College.
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Session I A: 10:20-11:50 a.m.
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Panel Discussion: A Syrian View From the Bridge
Moderator: Stephen Marino, Saint Francis College
Talk Back and Q&A with Brooke Ciardelli, Oscar Blutin, and actors.
Session I B: 10:20-11:50 a.m.
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Heroes and Common Men; Myth and Reality
Chair: Joshua Polster, Emerson College
Richard Brucher, University of Maine
“Pragmatism and the Common Man.”
Garin Cycholl, University of Chicago
“‘That world fallen to stones’:
American Myth and Form in Arthur Miller’s A View from the Bridge.”
Nilgun Anadolu-Okur, Temple University
“The Premise, the Dream and a Home of His Own: Arthur Miller’s Dramatic Genius in
Death of a Salesman.”
Session I C: 10:20-11:50 a.m.
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“The Crazy Kind of Forgiveness”
Chair: Ian Maloney, Saint Francis College
Matt Lorenz, Farmingdale State College
“’The lightning of my being’: The Byronic Struggle and Apotheosis of John Proctor.”
Paul Contino, Pepperdine University
“Nadryv in New York: Dostoevskian Lacerations in Arthur Miller’s The Price.”
Lew Livesay, St. Peter’s University
“Arthur Miller's The Misfits: The Rise and Fall of Manifest Destiny”
Noon
Lunch
Lee and Peter Callahan Conference Center
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Session II A 1:00 - 3:15 p.m.
Founders Hall
Staged Reading
Free and Open to the Public
All My Sons by “On the Verge”: The Readers Theatre Company at Ithaca College,
Directed by Claire Gleitman
Session II B 1:00-2:30 p.m.
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Arthur Miller and Inge Morath: A 40 Year Partnership
Chair: Brenda Murphy, University of Connecticut
Susan C. W. Abbotson, Rhode Island College:
“Miller and Morath in Collaboration: In Russia, Chinese Encounters and In the Country."
Michael Earley, Rose Bruford College of Theatre and Performance,
“Salesman in Beijing: Creative Collaboration as Reportage”
Claire Conceison, Duke University
“Miller in China”
Session II C 1:00- 2:30 p.m.
Global Miller II
Chair: Lincoln Konkle, College of New Jersey
Timothy Dugan, St. Francis College
“Arthur Miller in Spanish and Italian Theatre”
Ramón Espejo, Universidad de Sevilla
“Death of a Salesman and Spanish Theatre”
Thiago Russo, University of São Paulo
“In the Veins of Brazilian Theater Runs an American Blood:
Arthur Miller’s Influence, Plays and Critical Reception in Brazil”
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3:30- 4:15 p.m: Concluding Forum
Founders Hall
“A Conversation with Enoch Brater.” University of Michigan
Closing Reception
Lee and Peter Callahan Conference Center
Sponsored by the English Department, St. Francis Preparatory School