October 16, 2025

Welcome: James Decker, William Ashley, Magnus Torén

Steven Reigns on Miller material in Nin Foundation archive and what he brought to show at the conference

Gary Koeppel telling about his archive of Miller art and what he brought to show at the conference

Keynote Speaker: Mary Dearborn: Nirvana Needed: Toward a New Henry Miller

What does Henry Miller have to say to us in the 21st century? With introduction by Magnus Torén.

Q&A [being edited]

October 17, 2025

Session 1 

Arthur Hoyle:The Happy Rock as Democrat.

Roger Jackson: Publishing Henry Miller: What’s Next?

Wayne Arnold: Tracing Henry Miller through Japan: Personal Stories of Discovery.

Q&A

Session 2

Caroline Blinder: The Artist and His Model – Henry Miller’s Introduction to Brassaï’s Histoire d’ Marie (1949)

Sarah Garland: "I love everything that flows": Miller’s Watercolour Practice

Q&A

Session 3

Gary Koeppel: Henry Miller, The Art of Play

Session 4

Eric Lehman: Keeping Human in an Air-conditioned Nightmare: Henry Miller Finds Microculture at Big Sur

Jakub Kloza: “The light of Greece opened my eyes”: Epiphany Structures in Henry Miller’s The Colossus of Maroussi 

James Decker: "Some beautiful blank book": Henry Miller’s Intermedial Transformation

Q&A

Session 5

Adrienne Cacitti: The Catacomb

David Calonne: The Mystical Quest in Henry Miller’s Handwritten Books

Eric Laursen: Henry Miller and the Post-WWII Anarchist Revival

Q&A

Henry Miller's Paris introduction and questions afterwards.

October 18, 2025

Session 6

Abhijit Bhattacharjee: Gods without number and without name”: Henry Miller, India and Mysticism

Sebastian Słowiński: How Have We Read Henry Miller in Poland and How Should We Read Him Today?

Katy Masuga: Henry Miller Writing toward a Continually Receding Horizon

Q&A [being edited]

Session 7

Finn Jensen: Comparative Study of Henry Miller and Louis-Ferdinand Céline – and an Evaluation of Their Relevance in Modern Society

Munehiro Nohira: The Significance of Henry Miller for Vietnamese Poet-Thinker Pham Cong Thien

Partha Sarathi Gupta: The “Debris of the Disinherited”: A Comparative Study Between Miller's Tropic of Cancer and Nabarun Bhattacharya's Herbert (1993)

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Session 8

Henry Miller Asleep & Awake with HM21 introduction by Tom Schiller

Joan Ganny: Henry Miller Asleep and Awake.

Arthur Hoyle: Henry Miller in Paris, A Screenplay

Mark SaFranko: Adapting Miller for the Stage

Lisa Elliot-Rosas: Henry Miller as Archetype

Q&A

Q&A after Lisa Elliot-Rosas’s The Gift of Wisdom and Joe Kishton's discussion and screening of American Venus et Le Guide Bleu. [being edited]

October 19, 2025

Session 9

Michael Paduano: From “Plan of Novel / June” to “Capricorn Notes”: Planning The Rosy Crucifixion

Tatsuro Ide: Passivity of the "I" as Responsibility to Others: Reconsidering The Rosy Crucifixion through New Modernist Studies.

Cheyanne Gustason: Henry Miller, Bodice Ripper?: Free Speech, Romance Novels, and the Unexpected Legacy of Miller’s Work in the 21st Century.

Q&A

Session 10

Kevin Wolke: Henry Miller: The Antihumanist Existentialist.

Diego Menendez: Henry Miller: Human or Inhuman?

James Reich: Henry Miler, Wilhelm Reich, and Twenty-first Century Existentialism.

Q&A [being edited]