On Sept 10 and 11, The Graduate Center will present a two-day, cross-disciplinary conference reflecting on "Death, Bereavement, and Mourning: What We Have Learned a Year After 9/11." The conference is being organized by Samuel Heilman, Graduate Center Harold M. Proshansky Chair in Jewish Studies, and is sponsored by the Proshansky Chair and the New York State Funeral Directors Association.
Read moreKenneth T. Jackson: President and CEO of the New-York Historical Society, Jacques Barzun Professor of History and Social Sciences at Columbia University, and editor of the Encyclopedia of New York.
Read moreProfessor Ida Susser of the Ph.D. Program in Anthropology at The Graduate Center has received awards from The MacArthur Foundation, the Society for the Anthropology of North America, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the National Institutes of Health.
Read moreWilliam Alexander Stewart --- a groundbreaking linguist who was the "world's foremost authority on Gullah" according to The New York Times (March, 29, 1977) --- died Monday, March 25, in New York Presbyterian Hospital of Columbia University. Read more
I look back and as I do, I see the top of the south tower start sinking. The building is sinking into itself! It¹s collapsing. I can hear a sound like a freight train coming and I can see this mounting mushroom cloud growing and growing and exploding down the narrow streets towards me. People around me are screaming. They start running everywhere. We are in a narrow area with many benches and fences and people are running and screaming.
Read moreThe best way to begin pursuing a Ph.D. is not with an application form but a new website. Created by the Center for Advanced Study of Education (CASE) at the City University of New York Graduate Center, PhDInfoFIND.org provides prospective, and prospecting, students with everything they need to know about finding and applying to the right doctoral studies program, including site-specific material as well as portals to the wealth of information on the Internet.
Read moreThe Middle East Studies Association awarded its annual Malcolm H. Kerr dissertation award to a CUNY Graduate Center alumnus in Anthropology, Jonathan Shannon. Shannon's February 2001 dissertation, "Among the Jasmine Trees: Music, Modernity, and the Aesthetics of Authenticity in Contemporary Syria," investigates cultural memory, emotion, and discourses of modernity among Syrian musicians, artists, and intellectuals.
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