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EVENTS BY YEAR
1984 | 1985 | 1986 | 1987 | 1988 | 1989
1990 | 1991 | 1992 | 1993 | 1994 | 1995 | 1996 | 1997 | 1998 | 1999
2000 | 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 I 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013

1984 SPRING Inaugural Visiting Writer Event with Saul Bellow

1984 FALL
Visiting Writers: Toni Morrison, Amnon Shamosh, Norman Levy, Miguel Barnet
Special Event: World Premiere of the "The Cotton Club"

1985 SPRING
Visiting Writers: Carolyn Forche, Edmundo Desnoes, The Maya Experience, Guillermo Cabrera Infante, Matt Cohen, Gary Snyder, Ruth Fainlight, Seamus Heaney, Alan Sillitoe, Richard Elman

Special Events:
John Updike, Melville Lecture
Antonine Maillet, Writer-in-Residence
Symposium on Puerto Rican Fiction (Pedro Juan Soto, Emilio Diaz Valcarcel, Luis Rafael Sanchez, Rosario Ferre)

1985 FALL
Visiting Writers: Alison Lurie, David Bromige, Amy Hempel, Josef Skvorecky, Grace Paley, Nicholasa Mohr, William Styron, Carolyn Forche, William Hunt, Micheal Heim

Special Events:
Carolyn Forche, Writer-in-Residence
John Montague, Writer-in-Residence
Hector Babenco, Filmmaker-in-Residence

1986 SPRING
Visiting Writers: Joseph Heller , Tom Wicker, Susan Howe, Bert Teretzky, Doris Grumback, Barbara Fischkin, Carolyn Kizer, Miguel Leon-Portilla, Luisa Valensuela, Shu Ting, Clayton Eshleman, Jurg Federspiel, Jim Mulvaney, Maurice Sendak, Norman Mailer

Special Events:
Jerome Rothenberg, Writer-in-Residence
Charles Burnett, Filmmaker-in-Residence
August Coppola, Filmmaker-in-Residence
co-production of the premiere of "Dreaming Emmett" by Toni Morrison

1986 FALL
Visiting Writers: Jamaica Kincaid, Maishe Maponya, J. Anthony Lukas, William Herrick, Danilo Kis, Rosalind Brackenbury, Clark Coolidge, Alan Cheuse, Karl Kraus, Mark Helprin, Zhong A-Cheng

Special Events:
Judith Malina, Writer-in-Residence
Mary McCarthy, Melville Lecture
Inaugural awarding of the New York State Edith Wharton Citation of Merit as State Author to Grace Paley

1987 SPRING
Visiting Writers: Bella Akhmadulina, Josephine Carson, Isabel Allende, Jules Feiffer, Daniel Halpern, Carolyn Kizer, Gregory Orr, David Ignatow, Charles Simic, Elizabeth Hardwick, William Kennedy, Peter Davidson, Judith Johnson, Mary Oliver, Robert Merz, Stanley Moss

Special Events:
Doris Grumbach, fiction workshop
Co-sponsorship of Writing and the Holocaust, a national conference featuring Aharon Appelfeld, Richard Elman, Leslie Epstein, Cynthia Ozick, Lore Segal, William Heyen, Raul Hilberg, Philip Hallie, and Alvin H. Rosenfeld among others
World Preimiere of Ironweed
Panel presentation of The Making of Ironweed
Inaugural awarding of the New York State Walt Whitman Citation of Merit for State Poet to Stanley Kunitz

1987 SUMMER
Special Events:
Inception of New York State Summer Writers Institute co-sponsored by the NYS Writers Institute and Skidmore College

1987 FALL
Visiting Writers: Li Zi-Yun, Toni Cade Bambara, James Alan McPherson, Loiuse Erdrich, Raymond Carver, Eavan Boland, Alfred Kazin, Jed Rasula, Gay Talese, Denise Donoghue, Claribel Alegria, Michael Dorris, Tess Gallagher, Lucy Chen, Ruth Geller

Special Events:
Inception of Poet-in-Residence Series with Diane Wakowski, Charles Bernstein, Susan Howe and Kathleen Spivack

1988 SPRING
Visiting Writers: Richard Ford, Andrei Bitov, Thomas Flanagan, Vassily Aksyonov, Natasha Borovski,
Joanne Koch, Joao Cabral de Melo Neto, Tim O'Brien, Eric Overmyer, Gregory Orr, Ernesto Sabato, Sharon Olds, Adelia Prado, John Montague

Special Events:
Initiation of Albany Showcase Series featuring area writers Initiation of Classic Film Series with the screening of 11 movies in 35mm
Robert Wise Film Festival
Seamus Heaney, Melville Lecture
Co-sponsorship of Hispanic Women Writers Conference with Luisa Valenzuela, Nicholasa Mohr, Sandra Maria Esteves and others | Marilyn Hacker, Poet-in-Residence

1988 SUMMER
Special Events:
2nd Annual New York State Summer Writers Institute at Skidmore | Inception of the Public Radio Book Show

1988 FALL
Visiting Writers: John Barth, Den You Mei, T. C. Boyle, Gloria Steinem, W.D. Snodgrass, Eugenio deAndrade, Carl Bernstein, Marilynne Robinson, Irving Howe and Book Show guests

Classic Films: 10 movies | Costa Gavras Film Festival

Special Events:
Angela Carter, Writer-in-Residence
Albany Showcase Series Poets-in-Residence
Co-sponsorship of Womens Playwrights Symposium with Isidora Aguirre, Fatima Dike, Bai Fengxi and others

1989 SPRING
Visiting Writers: Derek Walcott, Joyce Carol Oates, John Montague, Nicholasa Mohr, Gwendolyn Brooks, David Hanly, Robert Coover, William Kennedy, Leo Connellan, Nelida Pinon, Barry Callaghan and Book Show guests

Classic Films: 11 movies | Dusan Makavejev Film Festival | Ismail Merchant/James Ivory Film Festival

Special Events:
Albany Showcase Series Poets-in-Residence
2nd awarding of The New York State Edith Wharton Citation of Merit for State Author to E. L. Doctorow
2nd awarding of The New York State Walt Whitman Citation of Merit for State Poet to Robert Creeley

1989 SUMMER
Special Event: 3rd Annual New York State Summer Writers Institute

1989 FALL
Visiting Writers: Shay Youngblood, Anne Waldman, Nicholas Delbanco, Jerome Rothenberg, Alain Elkain, Nadine Gordimer, Robert Creeley, Thomas Keneally, Bern Porter, Richard Wilbur, Harrison Salisbury, Anita Desai and Book Show guests

Classic Films: 9 movies

Special Event: Albany Showcase Series

1990 SPRING
Visiting Writers: Niki Giovanni, William Kovach, Peter Matthiessen, Richard Selzer, William Gaddis, Alan Sillitoe, Tobias Wolff, Ruth Fainlight, E. L. Doctorow, Stanley Kunitz, Francine Prose, Gioia Timpanelli and Book Show Guests

Classic Films: 10 movies | Alan Sillitoe Film Festival | Ron Shelton Film Festival

Special Events:
Co-sponsorship of the East Coast premiere workshop production of Sophie, Totie & Belle by Sarah Blacher Cohen and Joanne Koch
John Montague, Distinguished Writer-in-Residence

1990 SUMMER
Special Event: 4th Annual New York State Summer Writers Institute

1990 FALL
Visiting Writers: Douglas Bauer, George Plimpton, Tina Howe, Camile Paglia, Allen Ginsberg, Le Anne Schreiber, Marge Piercy, Jane Smiley, Sue Miller and Book Show Guests

Classic Films: 9 movies

Special Events: Tina Howe, Playwright-in-Residence

1991 SPRING
Visiting Writers: Vinie Burrows, Linda Hogan, Joe Bruchac, John Irving, John Barth, Gerald Vizenor, Maurice Kenny, Peter Maas, Geoffrey Wolff, and Book Show guests

Classic Films: 8 movies | Tomas Gutierrez Alea Film Festival | Native American Film Festival

Special Events:
Co-sponsorship of SUNY Writers Festival
Sponsorship of Telling the Truth: A Symposium on the Craft of Nonfiction, a 3-day series of presentations and panel discussions by 37 of the country's most celebrated nonfiction writers John Montague, Distinguished Writer-in-Residence

1991 SUMMER
Special Events:
5th Annual New York State Summer Writers Institute
Agnes Varda Film Festival

1991 FALL
Visiting Writers: Ann Beattie, Michael Heller, Lamar Herrin, Quincy Troupe, John McGahern, Jamaica Kincaid, Wallace Shawn, Archetext, Anne Waldman, Dr. Ruthe Sheffley, Jane Augustine, Robert Bensen, Gloria Emerson, Amy Clampitt, Douglas Glover, Deborah Eisenberg and Book Show guests

Classic Films: 10 movies

Special Events:
Awarding of New York State Edith Wharton Citation of Merit as State Author to Norman Mailer
Awarding of New York State Walt Whitman Citation of Merit as State Poet to Audre Lorde

1992 SPRING
Visiting Writers: Yevgeny Yevtushenko, Elena Castedo, Geoffrey Hartman, R.W.B. Lewis, Chase Twichell, Norman Mailer, Christopher Hewitt, Diane Ackerman, Barbara Kingsolver, Russell Banks, Katha Politt, William Kennedy and Book Show guests

Classic Films: 8 movies | Africana Women in Film Festival

Special Events:
An evening of Irish poetry with Eilean Ni Chuilleanain & Nuala Ni Dhomhnaill, hosted by John Montague The Writer as Teacher, readings with Donald Byrd, Eugene Garber, Judith Johnson, & Eugene Mirabelli John Montague, Distinguished Writer-in-Residence

1992 SUMMER
Special Event: 6th Annual New York State Summer Writers Institute

1992 FALL
Visiting Writers: Elena Poniatowska, Cherrie Morago, Nicholas Pileggi, Mona Simpson, Philip Roth, Shirley Kaufman, Alice McDermott, Bill McKibben, John Ashbery, William Alfred, Alexei Mikhalev, Andrei Codrescu and Book Show guests

Classic Films: 8 movies

Special Events:
Prophets of the Prize, roundtable discussion concerning the press coverage of the Presidential election, with Joel Blumenthal, Maurice Carroll, Anne M. Hildreth, Jeff Jones, Kathleen E. Kendall, Bruce Miroff, Kevin Sack, Judy Sanders, & Charles Tidmarch
Community Voice, readings by area writers co-sponsored with the Hudson Valley Writers Guild & Boulevard Bookstore

1993 SPRING
Visiting Writers: Tom Raworth, David Leavitt, Steve McCaffery, Blanche Wiesen Cook, Dennis Phillips, Robert Pinsky, Pete Hamill, Nahid Rachlin, Ru Ningkun, Daniel Lynch, Karen MacCormack, Maureen Howard, Martin Nakell, Robert Mezey, Yevgeny Yevtushenko and Book Show guests

Classic Films: 13 Movies | David O. Selznick Film Festival

Special Events:
Community Voice, readings by area writers co-sponsored with the Hudson Valley Writers Guild & Boulevard Bookstore
Saul Bellow's Stories on Stage, co-sponsored with the College of Humanities & Fine Arts, U at Albany Africana Women in Film Festival: Focus on Mary Alice, sponsored with the Department of Theatre and the Office of Affirmative Action
John Montague, Distinguished Writer-in-Residence

1993 SUMMER
Special Event: 7th Annual New York State Summer Writers Institute

1993 FALL
Visiting Writers: Jerome Rothenberg, William Styron, Carolyn Forche, Tina Howe, Molly Haskell, E.M. Broner, Tatyana Tolstaya, Allen Fisher, Brenda Webster, Timothy Ferris, Lewis Turco, Hayden Carruth, Andrew Sarris, Agha Shahid Ali, Ambroise Kom and Book Show guests

Classic Films: Josef von Sternberg and Marlene Dietrich Film Festival (with special film commentary by Andrew Sarris and Molly Haskell) | Gay and Lesbian Film Festival, co-sponsored by Reel Visions

Special Events:
Almada Negreiros Centenary Celebration, co-sponsored with University Libraries,
the Center for Brazilian and Portugeuse Studies, University at Albany and the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation
Black Poetry Day, Plattsburgh
"How Newspapers Can Survive the Electronic Age," co-sponsored with the Society of Professional Journalists, Capital Newspapers, The Gazette Newspapers, and the Newspaper Guild of Albany, Local 34 Share Our Strength Writer's Harvest: The National Reading (William Styron Reading)
Community Voice, readings by area writers co-sponsored with the Hudson Valley Writers Guild and Boulevard Bookstore |
5th Awarding of Edith Wharton Citation of Merit to William Gaddis
5th Awarding of Walt Whitman Citation of Merit to Richard Howard

1995 SPRING
Visiting Writers: Ray Armantrout, Ron Shelton, Douglas Messerli, Derek Mahon, John Montague, Lucille Clifton, George Hendrick, Joseph Heller, Carola Harryman, Richard Caddel, Doris Kearns Goodwin, Gloria Naylor, Steve Stern, Norman Mailer and Book Show guests

Classic Films: 11 Films | Yiddish Film Festival (with special film commentary by J. Hoberman)

Special Events:
Women, Multiculturism and the Avant-Garde: Where the Action Is with Chris Mazza, Eugene K. Garber, Judith E. Johnson, Raymond Federman and others | Steve Lacy and Irene Aebi, an evening of jazz art songs--poetry put to music
Poetry Workshop by Writer-in-Residence John Montague
Community Voice, readings by area writers co-sponsored with the Hudson Valley Writers Guild and Borders Bookstore

1995 SUMMER
Special Events: 9th Annual New York State Summer Writers Institute | 1st Annual Capital Region Film Slam co-sponsored with Passport Cinemas and Metroland

1995 FALL
Visiting Writers: Harold Bloom, William Gass, Luci Tapahonso, Alice Fulton, Deirdre Bair, Harry Staley, Andy Rooney, R.W.B. Lewis, John Montague, Richard Ford and Book Show guests

Classic Films: 12 Films | Sneak Preview of Walter Mosley's Devil in a Blue Dress | Gay and Lesbian Film Festival, co-sponsored by Reel Vision

Special Events:
Alice Notley, Poet-in-Residence
Awarding of New York State Edith Wharton Citation of Merit as State Author to Peter Matthiessen Awarding of New York State Walt Whitman Citation of Merit as State Poet to Jane Cooper
Community Voice, readings by area writers co-sponsored with the Hudson Valley Writers Guild and Borders Bookstore
Nonfiction Workshop by Writer-in-Residence Richard Selzer

1996 SPRING
Visiting Writers: Galway Kinnell, Liu Binyan, Walter Mosley, Wayne Koestenbaum, Rosario Ferre, Nancy Willard, Alicia Ostricker, Jane Cooper, E. Perry Link, Jr., Jamaica Kincaid, Robert Pinsky, Robert Kelly, August Wilson, Alice Provensen, William Kennedy and Book Show guests

Classic Films: 12 Films | Neil Jordan Film Festival

Special Events:
Community Voice, readings by area writers, co-sponsored with the Hudson Valley Writers Guild and Borders Bookstore
Initiation of Author's Theatre, designed to bring out literary dimensions of plays in progress,co-sponsored with Capital Repertory Co and Univ at Albany's Theatre Dept featuring Grand View, The Black Swan and a Special Performance: Irene Worth's Portrait of Edith Wharton

1996 SUMMER
Special Events: 10th Annual New York State Summer Writers Institute | 2nd Annual Capital Region Film Slam, co-sponsored with Passport Cinemas

1996 FALL
Visiting Writers: Visiting Writers Series Listing | Robert Coover, Brenda Wineapple, James R. Mellow, Peter Matthiessen, Judith Ortiz Cofer, Nicole Brossard, Philip Levine, Robert Stone, John McGahern, Anne Waldman, Frank McCourt, Stephen Jay Gould

Classic Films:

Special Events:
African-American Autobiography, discussions and readings by Veronica Chambers, Clifton Taulbert, Shirlee Taylor Haizlip, bell hooks, and Arnold Rampersad
Business of Writing Panel, discussions on the business aspects of the publishing industry by Dosier Hammond, Bill Henderson, Barbara Jones, Sally Ann McCarten, Susan Novotny, Rebecca Saletan, Chuck Verrill
Screenwriting Workshop offered by Writer-in-Residence William Patrick

1997 SPRING
Visiting Writers: Visiting Writers Series Listing | Billie Whitelaw, Wole Soyinka, Phillip Lopate, Kwado Agymah Kamau, Le Anne Schreiber, Dermot Moran, Peter Quinn, Eamon Grennan, Shelby Foote, Amy Bloom, Raymond Flynn, Junot Diaz, Edwidge Danticat, Michael Joyce, John Ashbery, Edna O'Brien

Classic Films: Classic Films Series listing | Early Black Cinema, Sketches of Spain, Ethereal Valentines, Classic Short Films

Special Events:
Initial broadcast of PBS series The Writer, coproduced with WMHT TV
Authors Theatre events, The Last Man in Europe, The Turn of the Screw, Miserere
Festival of Regional Poets, hosted by Leo Connellan, with Frank Fagan, William Patrick & Kristine Santilli
The Art of Screenwriting, mini-workshop by Joanne Koch
May Day Celebration of Poetry in Performance, with performance poets Bob Holman and Ed Sanders Poetry Workshop offered by Distinguished Poet-in-Residence John Montague

1997 SUMMER:
Special Event: 11th Annual New York State Summer Writers Institute

1997 FALL
Visiting Writers: Visiting Writers Series Listing | Tobias Wolff, Steven Millhauser, Paul Metcalf, Jonathan Kozol, Blanche McCrary Boyd, Amos Oz, Don DeLillo, Jessica Hagedorn, James Salter, Jane Cooper, Peter Matthiessen, John Mulligan

Classic Films: Classic Films Series listing
Sneak preview showing of The Sweet Hereafter with film commentary by Russell Banks
Holloween Double Bill
Silents and Soundies The Making of Citizen Kane with film commentary by film historian Tom Lennon

Special Events:
Getting the Novel Published, mini-workshop by Douglas Bauer
The Art of Political Biography, with Paul Grondahl and Cary Reich
Caribbean Spotlight: A Dual Reading, with Mayra Montero and Barbara Fischkin
New York State History Month, Six Regional Authors and Their Histories
Le Anne Schreiber, Crossing the Boundaries: A Workshop in Fiction & Nonfiction
Black Poetry Day (at SUNY Plattsburgh) | Staged reading of Shopping Cart Soldiers, by John Mulligan

1998 SPRING
Visiting Writers: Visiting Writers Series Listing | Sharon Olds, James McBride, David Sedaris, Paul Muldoon, Robert Pinsky, Timothy O'Grady, Chinua Achebe, Steven Pinker, William Herrick, Studs Terkel, Allen Fisher

Classic Films: Classic Films Series listing
5 Shakespeare Semester Presentations
Sneak preview showing of No Looking Back with film commentary by Edward Burns
Film commentary by French director Catherine Berge

Special Events:
Authors Theatre events, Side Man, The Talk, A Question of Mercy |
(Re)Building Shakespeare's Globe, video/discussion with David Scott Kastan |
An Offer She Couldn't Refuse by Forrest Stone, new play co-sponsored by the Univ at Albany's Theatre Dept |
Second Generation Holocaust Perspectives, panel discussions and readings with Alan Berger (Commentator), Julie Salamon, Melvin Bukiet, Thane Rosenbaum
Soul Sisters, play presented by Sarah Blacher Cohen and Joanne Koch
John Montague, Writer-in-Residence, conducted two workshops, Fiction (with Elizabeth Wassel) and Poetry
6th Awarding of the Edith Wharton Citation of Merit as State Author to James Salter
6th Awarding of the Walt Whitman Citation of Merit as State Poet to Sharon Olds
Screenwriting seminar by Joanne Koch

1998 SUMMER
Special Event: 12th Annual New York State Summer Writers Institute

1998 FALL
Visiting Writers: Visiting Writers Series Listing | Ernesto Cardenal, Mars Hill, Derek Walcott, Andrea Barrett, Charles Stein, Margaret Atwood, Douglas Brinkley, Hunter S. Thompson, Jules Feiffer, Stephen Sondheim, John Mulligan, Karen Swenson, Kaye Gibbons, Scott Christianson

Classic Films: Classic Films Series listing
The Art of the Documentary with film commentary by D. A. Pennebaker and Chris Hegedus
Jules Feiffer's Little Murders

Special Events:
Conversations on Politics and Literature with Douglas Brinkley & Hunter S. Thompson
Poems for the Millenium: A Celebration with Pierre Joris, Jerome Rothenberg, Charles Stein, Don Byrd, Robert Kelly, Ed Sanders and Cecilia Vicuna

1999 SPRING
Visiting Writers: Visiting Writers Series Listing | Fintan O'Toole, Cristina Garcia, Douglas Starr, Timothy O'Grady, Steve Pyke, Leslie Scalapino, John Montague, Barry Callaghan, Hayden Carruth, Frank McCourt, Frances FitzGerald, Sara Paretsky, George Plimpton

Classic Films: Classic Films Series listing
The Films and Photography of Gordon Parks Sr
The Nonfiction Films of Maysles Films
5 Films for Irish Semester Events

Special Events:
Authors Theater events: Blackjack, Anna Manahan, Oscar Wilde: Confounding Critics and Surviving Scandal
Associated Writing Programs Annual Conference, Keynote Speaker Frank McCourt with cosponsored readings by Robert Creeley, Donald Faulkner, John Montague, Richard Selzer, Dennis Smith, Chase Twichell
New Voices In Fiction: Peter Rock, Susan Choi, Claire Messud, Debra Spark

1999 SUMMER
Special Events: Inaugural New York State Summer Young Writers Institute | 13th Annual New York State Summer Writers Institute

1999 FALL
Visiting Writers: Visiting Writers Series Listing | Alice McDermott , Frank & Caroline Mouris, Carolyn Kizer, Thomas Keneally, Marty Pottenger, Gish Jen, Lawrence Weschler, J.S.G. Boggs, Joan Murray, Melissa Bank, Donald Hall, Sydney Lea, Ann Beattie, Annie Proulx, Brian Greene, Kevin Young, Bill Griffiths

Classic Films: Classic Films Series listing
The Short Films of Frank & Caroline Mouris
Novel into Film, with Tom Perrotta and Jim Taylor

Special Events:
City Water Tunnel #3, by Marty Pottenger
Nonfiction: The State of the Art, moderated by Donald Faulkner with panelists Joel Achenbach, Susan Orlean, Lawrence Weschler, JoAnn Wypijewski
Adapting Short Stories into Film Workshop by William Patrick

2000 SPRING
Visiting Writers: Visiting Writers Series Listing | Tina Howe, Sonia Sanchez, Saul Williams, Lydia Davis, Xue Di, Michael Ondaatje, Linda Spalding, Nathan Englander, Elmore Leonard, Joanna Scott, James Longenbach, Gerald Stern, June Jordan, Jayne Anne Phillips, John Montague, Elizabeth Wassell, Abdellatif Laâbi

Classic Films: Classic Films Series listing
Screening of The English Patient with commentary by Michael Ondaatje
Fiction into Film, The Work of Elmore Leonard

Special Films:
First annual Burian Lecture with Tina Howe
Black Arts & Hip Hop Conference with Sonia Sanchez and Saul Williams
Henrietta Szold: Woman of Valor by Sarah Blacher Cohen and Joanne Koch
Literary Nonfiction Workshop with Writer-in-Residence Le Anne Schreiber
Poetry Workshop with Writer-in-Residence Ed Sanders

2000 SUMMER
Special Events:
2nd Annual New York State Summer Young Writers Institute
14th Annual New York State Summer Writers Institute

2000 FALL
Visiting Writers: Visiting Writers Series Listing | David Remnik, Horton Foote, Francine Prose, Ted Conover, David Halberstam, David Nasaw, Ben Katchor, Edmund White, Billy Collins

Classic Films: Classic Films Series listing
Film Noir Series Searching the Criminal Body: Art/Sciences/Prejudice, 1840s to Present
Horton Foote on Film, three of his original screenplays and adaptations
Film Appreciation Seminar in conjunction with UAlbany's Fiction into Film course

Special Events:
Albany Writers' Showcase with Barbara Chepaitis, Allen Ballard, Jarka Burian
A New York State of Mind, with Russell Banks, William Kennedy, Mary Gordon, and Meg Wolitzer
A Serious Introduction to Poetry Workshop by Joan Murray

2001 SPRING
Visiting Writers: Visiting Writers Series Listing | John Ashbery, Kurt Vonnegut, Clark Blaise, Bharati Mukherjee, Julian Schnabel, Emmanual Dongala, Frederick Busch, Michael Cunningham, Yusef Komunyakaa, Joseph Persico, Colm Toibin, Susan Sontag, Alice Kaplan, Ken Kesey

Classic Films: Classic Films Series listing
Films of Julian Schnabel with two films featured

Special Events:
Danny Kaye: Supreme Court Jester by Sarah Blacher Cohen and Joanne Koch
7th Awarding of the Edith Wharton Citation of Merit as State Author to John Ashbery
7th Awarding of the Walt Whitman Citation of Merit as State Poet to Kurt Vonnegut
Serious Introduction to Poetry Workshop by Joan Murray

2001 SUMMER
Special Events:
3rd Annual New York State Summer Young Writers Institute
15th Annual New York State Summer Writers Institute

2001 FALL
Visiting Writers: Visiting Writers Series Listing | Edward Albee, Mary Higgins Clark, Elizabeth Benedict, Susan Minot, Kate Walbert, Pablo Medina, Martin Nakell, Stephen Dunn, Richard Russo, Michele Serros, Caryl Phillips, Mark Doty, Pierre Joris, Bei Dao, Eliot Weinberger, Marion Roach, Michael Baden, MD, Edward Hirsch

Classic Films:Classic Films Series listing

Special Events: Short Nonfiction Workshop with Writer-in-Residence Le Anne Schreiber

2002 SPRING
Visiting Writers: Visiting Writers Series Listing | William Kennedy, Linda Gregg, Daryl Cumber Dance, Lucy Grealy, Kenneth T. Jackson
Susan Rabiner, David Grossman, Paul Durcan, Kenneth T. Jackson, Susan Rabiner, David Grossman, Paul Durcan, Russell Baker, Grace Paley, Robert Nichols

Classic Films: Classic Films Series listing | Quebec New York 2001 Film Festival, featuring 4 films

Special Events:
Authors Theater reading of All Hallowed by Bill C. Davis
NY Council for Humanities Scholor of the Year Lecture by Kenneth Jackson
Sixth annual Burian Lecture with John Lahr
Intermediate Fiction Writing Workshop with Writer-in-Residence Elizabeth Benedict

2002 SUMMER
Special Events:
4th Annual New York State Summer Young Writers Institute
16th Annual New York State Summer Writers Institute

2002 FALL
Visiting Writers: Visiting Writers Series Listing | Dennis Smith, Richard Russo, Bernardine Evaristo, Marvin Bell, Colson Whitehead, Clayton Eshleman, Zoe Caldwell, Jim Harrison, James Lasdun, Ana Menendez, Lynne Tillman, Helen Vendler, Richard Ford, Pat Conroy

Classic Films: Classic Films Series listing
Cuban Film Festival: The Films of Fernando Perez, featuring 2 of his films
Appearances by directors Phil Alden Robinson and Raoul Peck in conjunction with screenings of their films

Special Events:
Israeli and Palestinian Poetry: A Literary Encounter featuring Taha Muhammad Ali and Aharon Shabtai"Real and Fictional Albany" by William Kennedy, in conjunction with "State Street Stories: 350 Years of Albany's Heritage"
Intermediate /Advanced Fiction Writing Workshop by Writer-in-Residence James Lasdun

2003 SPRING
Visiting Writers: Visiting Writers Series Listing | Jon Beckwith, T.C. Boyle, Mark Dery, Jennifer Fleischner, Carol Gilligan, Gail Godwin, Harold Gould, Judith Johnson, Bobbie Ann Mason, Kate McCafferty, Colum McCann, Malachy McCourt, Les Murray, Marge Piercy, Richard Rodriguez, Sandra Seaton, Franz Wright, Adam Zagajewski

Classic Film Series: Classic Films Series listing
Documentary Filmmakers Series
Charlie Chaplin Shorts from Essanay Studios

2003 SUMMER
Special Events: 5th Annual New York State Summer Young Writers Institute
17th Annual New York State Summer Writers Institute

2003 FALL
Visiting Writers: Visiting Writers Series Listing | Marvin Bell, John Cornwell, Lydia Davis, Jennifer Egan, Leslie Epstein, Carolyn Forché, The Fugs Concert, Douglas Glover, Ryan Harty, Ha Jin, Adam Johnson, Garrison Keillor, Jonathan Lethem, Louis Menand, Susan Orlean, Julie Orringer, Anita Pratap, Peter Schjeldahl, Alexander Shurbanov, Charles Simic, Tobias Wolff

Classic Films: Classic Films Series listing
"Democracy in Latin America: 30 Years after Chile's 9/11" International Conference

2004 SPRING
Visiting Writers: Visiting Writers Series Listing | Michael Ashkin, Paul Auster, Russell Banks, Dave Baron, Dave Barry, 10 Brecht Poems, Iris Chang, Chorale Concert, Billy Collins, Crossing the BLVD, Edwidge Danticat, Digital Expression, The Doctor Stories, Janice Galloway, Eugene K. Garber, Nelson George, Ellen Goodman, Eamon Grennan, Mary C. Henderson, Jack Hitt, HumaniTech*, David Ives Sketches, Danielle/Kreg Jones, Ross King, Mark Kurlansky, Marisol, Mohawk, Rick Moody, Musicians of Ma'alwyck, Ruth Ozeki, ZZ Packer, Richard Price, Marion Roach, Jackie Roberts, Elizabeth Rosner, Katy Siegel, Russell Shorto, Barbara Smith, Bonnie Smith, State Author/Poet, Robert Storr, Gary Taubes, Alan Taylor, Words w/out Walls

Classic Films: Classic Films Series listing

2004 SUMMER
Special Events:
6th Annual New York State Summer Young Writers Institute
18th Annual New York State Summer Writers Institute

2004 FALL
Visiting Writers: Visiting Writers Series Listing | Jon Lee Anderson, Madison Smartt Bell, Rita Dove, Roddy Doyle, Geoff Dyer, Maureen Dowd, Dave Eggers, Joseph Ellis, Nick Flynn, Francisco Goldman, Jessica Hagedorn, Ursula Hegi, Edward Hirsch, Tracy Kidder, Maxine Hong Kingston, Neil LaBute, Pablo Neruda Tribute, Sharon Olds, Chuck Palahniuk, Joseph Persico, Radio Drama, Peter Sheridan, Neil deGrasse Tyson

Classic Films: Classic Films Series listing

2005 SPRING
Visiting Writers: Visiting Writers Series Listing | Adirondack Voice, Eric Bogosian, Angie Cruz, Ruby Dee, Pete Dexter, Jane Feldman, Samuel Freedman, Mary Gordon, Kermit L. Hall, Pam Houston, Kazuo Ishiguro, Shelley Jackson, Ben Jones, Edward P. Jones, Thai Jones, Maxine Kumin, Shannon Lanier, Leaves of Grass, Pablo Medina, Lucia Nevai, One Ring Zero, Cynthia Ozick, Camille Paglia, Francine Prose, Ed Schwarzschild, Hollis Seamon, Tobias Seamon, HS Thompson Readings, Hannah Tinti, William Vollmann, Kevin Young

Classic Films: Classic Films Series listing

2005 SUMMER
Special Events:
7th Annual New York State Summer Young Writers Institute
19th Annual New York State Summer Writers Institute

2005 FALL
Visiting Writers: Visiting Writers Series Listing | Kaleem Aftab, Margaret Atwood, Arthur Bradford, Edward B. Burger, John Darnton, Russell Edson, John Hodgman, Doris Kearns Goodwin, Janet Guthrie, Judith Johnson, James Lasdun, Jill Lepore, Sydney Lea, Spike Lee, Jeff MacGregor, Robert Meeropol, William Patrick, Jed Perl, Caryl Phillips, Robert Pinsky, Bob Rafelson, Jonathan Rosen, Le Anne Schreiber, Jane Smiley, Dava Sobel, David Thomson

Classic Films: Classic Films Series listing