1. Encounters at the End of the World
Dir. Werner Herzog, 2007
Wednesday, September 22 @ 7 p.m.
Page Hall, 135 Western Avenue
(Downtown Campus)
albany.edu/writers-inst

2. The Archives Partnership Trust 2010 Empire State
Archives & History Award
Featuring Richard Dreyfuss
Tuesday, September 28 @ 7:30 p.m.
The Egg, Empire State Plaza
$10, order at theegg.org or 473-1845
albany.edu/writers-inst

3. The Films of Ousmane Sembène:
La Noire De…, L’Heroisme au Quotidien, The Making of a Mooladé
Friday, October 1 @ 7 p.m.
Page Hall, 135 Western Avenue
(Downtown Campus)
albany.edu/writers-inst

4. Sigrid Nunez
Author, Salvation City (2010), The Last of Her Kind (2006)
Thursday, October 7
Seminar: 4:15 p.m.
Reading: 8 p.m.
Recital Hall, Performing Arts Center
albany.edu/writers-inst

5. Portrait of the Cuban-American Artist as a Young
New York Filmmaker
Featuring Hugo Perez, director of The Writer
Friday, October 8
Seminar: 4:15 p.m., Standish Room (Science Library)
Film & commentary: 7 p.m., Page Hall
(Downtown Campus)
albany.edu/writers-inst

6. Louisa May Alcott: In Print & On Screen
Harriet Reisen and Nancy Porter, producers of
“Louisa May Alcott: The Woman Behind Little Women”
Thursday, October 14 @ 7:30 p.m.
Recital Hall, Performing Arts Center
albany.edu/writers-inst

7. Behind the Scenes With Harriet Reisen & Nancy
Porter
Producers, “Louisa May Alcott: The Woman Behind Little Women”
Friday, October 15, 9 a.m. – 12 p.m.
Standish Room (Science Library)
albany.edu/writers-inst

8. The Glass Castle
Performance by the American Place Theater
Wednesday, October 20 @ 7:30 p.m.
Recital Hall, Performing Arts Center
$10 students, $12 faculty/staff, call 442-3997
(Pre-performance discussion at 7 p.m.)
albany.edu/writers-inst

9. Ilyon Woo
Author, The Great Divorce: A Nineteenth-Century Mother’s
Extraordinary Fight against Her Husband, the Shakers, and Her Times
(2010)
Thursday, October 21
Seminar: 4:15 p.m., Standish Room (Science Library)
Reading: 7 p.m., 25 Meeting House Road
(Near ALB main entrance)
albany.edu/writers-inst

10. Sapphire
Author, Push (1996)
Tuesday, October 26
Seminar: 4:15 p.m., Recital Hall, Performing Arts Center
Reading: 8 p.m., Page Hall, 135 Western Avenue
(Downtown Campus)
albany.edu/writers-inst

11. Gerald Vizenor
Author, Shrouds of White Earth (2010)
Tuesday, November 9
Seminar: 4:15 p.m
Reading: 7:30 p.m.
Standish Room (Science Library)
albany.edu/writers-inst

12. Kwame Anthony Appiah
Author, The Honor Code: How Moral Revolutions Happen (2010)
Thursday, November 11
Seminar: 4:15 p.m., Standish Room (Science Library)
Reading: 7:30 p.m., Recital Hall, Performing Arts Ctr.
albany.edu/writers-inst

13. Jean Valentine
New York State Poet
Tuesday, November 16
Seminar: 4:15 p.m., Standish Room (Science Library)
Reading: 7:30 p.m., Albany Public Library
(Main Branch, 161 Washington Avenue)
albany.edu/writers-inst

14. Fence Fall 2010 Issue Launch
Featuring Jena Osman, poet of The Network (2010)
Thursday, December 2 @ 7:30 p.m.
Standish Room (Science Library)
albany.edu/writers-inst