Henry Miller in the 21st Century
Links to presentations on YouTube, will be updated as more are added
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 [being edited]
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 [coming soon]
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 [coming soon]
Session 2
Caroline Blinder: The Artist and His Model – Henry Miller’s Introduction to Brassaï’s Histoire d’ Marie (1949) [being edited]
Sarah Garland: "I love everything that flows": Miller’s Watercolour Practice
Q&A [coming soon]
Session 3
Gary Koeppel: Henry Miller, The Art of Play
Session 4
James Decker: "Some beautiful blank book": Henry Miller’s Intermedial Transformation [being edited]
Q&A [coming soon]
Session 5
Adrienne Cacitti: The Catacomb [being edited]
David Calonne: The Mystical Quest in Henry Miller’s Handwritten Books [being edited]
Eric Laursen: Henry Miller and the Post-WWII Anarchist Revival
Q&A [coming soon]
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 [being edited]
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 [coming soon]
Session 7
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) [being edited]
Q&A [coming soon]
Session 8
Henry Miller Asleep & Awake with HM21 introduction by Tom Schiller [being edited]
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 [coming soon]
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
Q&A [coming soon]
Session 10
Kevin Wolke: Henry Miller: The Antihumanist Existentialist.
Diego Menendez: Henry Miller: Human or Inhuman? [being edited]
James Reich: Henry Miler, Wilhelm Reich, and Twenty-first Century Existentialism.
Q&A [coming soon]