CEERES

Susan Gal, Mae and Sidney G. Metzl Distinguished Service Professor and Director of CEERES, was honored this year by the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. She was chosen by the Academy's Presidential Committee for Hungarian Science Abroad as the 2016 recipient of the Arany János Award for Lifetime Achievement in Scholarship. This is the first time this prize has been awarded to an American scholar.

Regenstein Library

Second Floor Reading Room

April -27 – June 30, 2016

"When Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from disturbing dreams, he found himself transformed..." Into what sort of thing was Gregor transformed? Why? How did his family and the world react to this transformation? Some very few responses are presented from the enormous body of scholarship and artistic vizualizations that in the past 100 years, have made this story a gem of world literature.

The most recent podcast from PRI's The World in Words features Yaroslav Gorbachov. The episode "Where did the Etruscans come from? The linguistic and genetic clues are piling up" and more can be found here.

The Summer Language Institute at the University of Chicago is offering the chance to study three CEERES regional languages in the upcoming Summer term:

·         Polish

·         Russian

·         Turkish

For more information about the SLI see their website.

You can find more information about the application process here.

The Palgrave Handbook of Slavic Languages, Identities, and Borders edited by Tomasz Kamusella, Motoki Nomachi, and Catherine Gibson and Published by Palgrave Macmillan presents and analyzes the creation of languages across the Slavophone areas of the world and their deployment for political projects and identity building, mainly after 1989.

The Forward recently interviewed Senior Lecturer Sunny Yudkoff on Yiddish Studies at the University of Chicago.