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 explination 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

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: Across Continents: Henry Miller’s Surprising Footprint in Japan

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

3. Raffle of Japanese Miller Art books starting between 10:50 and 10:55

Sesion 3. 11:15–12:00

Gary Koeppel: Henry Miller, The Art of Play

12:05 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

5:00 - 6:00

Premier screening of Henry Miller's Paris

Dinner: 6:00–7:00

6:30–9:30 Jazz Lounge

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: 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.

Excursion to Big Sur to visit HMML and Nepenthe with box lunch: Start loading buses at 12:15

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' Master Thinkers 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.