Award-winning composer Marta Ptaszynska will succeed Shulamit Ran as the artistic director of Contempo, the University of Chicago’s renowned contemporary music collective. 

Federal funding to support UChicago language instruction, graduate education

The CEERES Fall 2014 Newsletter is now available online here and archived on the News & Media/Newsletter page.  Get the latest news from faculty, students, and associate members and check out the exciting upcoming events for 2015!

Victor A. Friedman, PhD’75, a linguist working on languages of the Balkans and Caucasus, has been named the Andrew W. Mellon Distinguished Service Professor in the Humanities. 

Lenore Grenoble, an expert on Slavic linguistics and language contact and attrition, has been named the John Matthews Manly Distinguished Service Professor in Linguistics and the College.

 Yaroslav Gorbachov, Professor of Slavic Linguistics at the University of Chicago, interviewed on the debate over the Russian letter ё on the World in Words

Historian Michael Khodarkovsky's (Loyola University) piece, Glory to the 'Russian World' was published in the NY Times opinion pages on October 13th.

Lenore Grenoble (Linguistics) will give the Keynote address entitled "Languages in Danger: Why Shoudl we Care" at Humanities Day on Saturday, October 18, 2014.  Read more about her work and endagered languages in UChicago news.

CEERES announces that our proposal to the U.S. Department of Education for continued Title VI funding as a National Resource Center and for Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) Fellowships for 2014-18 was successful! We are delighted to be able to continue to support courses and programming focused on CEERES languages and cultures for the next four years. Now the real work begins!