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Update on the CUNY Alert Emergency Notification System
On 2/1/08 and on 2/6/08, you received invitations to sign up for CUNY Alert, a new, secure, web-based emergency notification system that allows students, staff and faculty to receive text or voice notifications of campus emergencies or weather related closings.
Press Release: April Public Programs
The City University of New York Graduate Center announces the following public programs to be held during the month of April at the Graduate Center, 365 Fifth Avenue at 34th Street.
Press Release: “Beyond Boundaries: Music and Israel @ 60†Looks at the Present-Day Complexities of Israeli Music
On Friday, March 28, “Beyond Boundaries: Music and Israel @ 60,†a symposium of the Center for Jewish Studies at the CUNY Graduate Center, will explore the complex diversity of musical styles, cultures, religions and ethnicities that is Israel today.  The daylong event will present papers, discussions, and musical performances from 9:30 AM to 3:30 PM in the Baisley Powell Elebash Recital Hall on the first floor of the Graduate Center, 365 Fifth Avenue (at 34th Street).
Press Release: Carlos Suriñach and the Creation of Modern Dance in New York
On Monday, March 31st at 6:30 pm, the CUNY Graduate Center’s Foundation for Iberian Music will present a conference exploring the works of composer Carlos Suriñach and his unique contribution to the world of modern dance in the mid-twentieth century. A roundtable discussion exploring the many aspects of Suriñach’s musical personality will be followed by a recital featuring the concert version of Embattled Garden, in celebration of the 50th anniversary of its premiere by the Martha Graham Dance Company on April 3, 1958 at New York’s Adelphi Theater. The conference, which is free and open to the public, takes place in the Baisley Powell Elebash Recital Hall at the Graduate Center, 365 Fifth Avenue at 34th Street.
Press Release: Changing Cuba / Changing World
The dynamics of contemporary Cuba -- the culture, the people, and the politics -- will be the focus of a three-day international symposium, “A Changing Cuba in a Changing World,†to run March 13-15 at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York in Manhattan (365 Fifth Ave., between 34th and 35th Streets). Organized by the Graduate Center’s Bildner Center for Western Hemisphere Studies and two years in the making, the conference has drawn the attention of specialists throughout the world.
Press Release: Linda Norden Appointed New Director of James Gallery
Distinguished curator, writer, and art historian Linda Norden has been appointed Director of the Amie and Tony James Gallery at the Graduate Center, City University of New York.  Most recently, Norden has been a Visiting Professor in the Department of Art at Yale University and Bard College’s Center for Curatorial Studies. From 1998 to 2006, she served as the first Associate Curator of Contemporary Art at the Fogg Art Museum of Harvard University, where she was a dedicated advocate for the enhanced exhibition, publication, and acquisition of modern and contemporary art.