Wednesday:

Smile play at Asilomar in Julia Morgan's Chapel at 7:30 pm. (not included in registration)

Thursday:

Register in Kiln room, our Hall of Art, Books and Letters: 3:00–6:00 and 7:00–7:20

Dinner: 6:00–7:00

Opening Night: 7:30–9:00

1. Welcome: James Decker, William Ashley, Magnus Toren

2. 5 to 10 minute explanation from Steven Reigns about Miller material in Nin Foundation archive and its plan to make it more accessible.

3. Gary Koeppel telling about archive in Hall

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

What does Henry Miller have to say to us in the 21st century?  How we might best read Henry Miller in today’s context, 

and how, in turn, he might understand us and where we are. 

Friday:

Breakfast 7:30–8:30

Session 1: 8:30–9:45 

1. Arthur Hoyle:The Happy Rock as Democrat

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

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

Session 2: 10:00-10:50

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

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

Session 3. 11:05–11:50

Gary Koeppel: Henry Miller, The Art of Play

12:00 Opening of Koeppel archive books in Hall of Art, Books and Letters.

Lunch: 12:00-1:00

Session 4: 1:15-2:30

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

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

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

Session 5: 2:45-4:00

1. Adrienne Cacitti: The Catacomb

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

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

Raffle of Japanese Miller Art books starting at 4:00

5:00 - 6:00

Premier screening of Henry Miller's Paris

Dinner: 6:00–7:00

6:30–9:30 Jazz Lounge in Seascape room with Zach Westfall Quintet

Saturday

Breakfast 7:30–8:30

Session 6: 8:30-9:45

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

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

3. Katy Masuga: Henry Miller Writing toward a Continually Receding Horizon

Session 7: 10:00–11:15

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

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

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

Dear Anaïs, letters from Henry: 11:30–12:00 in Hall of Art, Books and Letters.

The cases will be opened and additional letters will be available for viewing. These are part of the Archive of the Anaïs Nin Foundation.

Excursion to Big Sur to visit HMML and Nepenthe with box lunch: 

The 2 buses start loading at 12:15 in the circle on the ocean side of the Social Hall where you check into your room.

Magnus will welcome the group at the Library. 

At 3:00 one bus will go with Magnus to the mailboxes at Partington Ridge, the other bus will go to Nepenthe to visit the Log House where Kirk Gafill will talk about stories he remembers from his grandparents, Lolly and Bill Fassett who took over the property and moved in with their five children in 1947. There will also be a tasting of the reserve wine they serve. Henry spent his first night in Big Sur in the Log House with Lynda Sargent who owned it at that time.  

At 3:45 the groups will swap the places they visit.

Dinner: 6:00–7:00

Session 8, Film and Plays: 7:30–10:30

1. Henry Miller Asleep & Awake with HM21 intro by Tom Schiller

2. Joan Ganny: Henry Miller Asleep and Awake.

3. Panel discussion about using Henry Miller in Screenplays and Plays: 

Arthur Hoyle: Henry Miller in Paris, A Screenplay

Mark SaFranko: Adapting Miller for the Stage

Lisa Elliot-Rosas: Henry Miller as Archetype

4. A preview of Lisa Elliot-Rosas’s The Gift of Wisdom that includes Miller and Nin.

5. Joe Kishton, discussion and screening of American Venus et Le Guide Bleu.

Sunday

Breakfast 7:30–8:30

Session 9: 8:30-9:45

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

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

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

Extended break as some people need to check out by 11:00 AM*

Session 10: 10:30-11:45

1. Kevin Wolke: Henry Miller: The Antihumanist Existentialist

2. Diego Menendez: Henry Miller: Human or Inhuman?

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

Lunch 12:00-1:00

Reception at the Museum of Art on Sunday, October 19 @ 2PM! (transportation not provided—car pools will be formed)

*Check out of Asilomar by 11:00 am if not staying an extra day.

The Hall of Art, Books and Letters will be open during breaks throughout the conference.