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<div style="direction: ltr;font-family: Tahoma;color: #000000;font-size: 10pt;"><span lang="en-US"><font face="Calibri,sans-serif" size="2"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><font color="black" face="Arial,sans-serif" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"></span></font></span></font></span><span class="style10"><span class="style32"><a href="http://www.albany.edu/writers-inst/webpages4/archives/burian_lectures.html">16th
Annual BURIAN LECTURE </a><br>
<strong>Sponsored by the Department of Theatre and <br>
Co-sponsored by the NYS Writers Institute<br>
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</strong></span></span><span lang="en-US"><font face="Calibri,sans-serif" size="2"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><font color="black" face="Arial,sans-serif" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><b>February 27 (Monday)
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</b></span></font><font color="black" face="Arial,sans-serif" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><b>Seminar - 4:15 p.m., Assembly Hall, Campus Center, Uptown Campus</b></span></font><font color="black" face="Arial,sans-serif" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><b><br>
</b></span></font><font color="black" face="Arial,sans-serif" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><b>Reading - 8:00 p.m., Recital Hall, Performing Arts Center, Uptown Campus
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</span></font><font color="black" face="Arial,sans-serif" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><b>John Sayles,</b></span></font><font color="black" face="Arial,sans-serif" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"> Schenectady native, award-winning director
and screenwriter, and one of America's most influential independent filmmakers, is the author of a new novel,
</span></font><font color="black" face="Arial,sans-serif" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><i>A Moment in the Sun</i></span></font><font color="black" face="Arial,sans-serif" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"> (2011)-a vast and brilliant American
epic. Set in 1897, and covering many of the events of that pivotal year, the novel portrays the bloody dawn of U.S. interventionism in world affairs. NPR's
</span></font><font color="black" face="Arial,sans-serif" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><i>Morning Edition</i></span></font><font color="black" face="Arial,sans-serif" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"> said, "If you only read one book this
summer, make it </span></font><font color="black" face="Arial,sans-serif" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><i>A Moment in the Sun.</i></span></font><font color="black" face="Arial,sans-serif" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">" Sayles's previous
novel, </span></font><font color="black" face="Arial,sans-serif" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><i>Union Dues</i></span></font><font color="black" face="Arial,sans-serif" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"> (1977), a story of Boston in 1969,
was a finalist for the National Book Award. His twenty award-winning films as writer and director include SILVER CITY (2004), MEN WITH GUNS (1997), LONE STAR (1996), EIGHT MEN OUT (1988), MATEWAN (1987), and RETURN OF THE SECAUCUS SEVEN (1979).</span></font><font color="black" face="Arial,sans-serif" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><br>
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