ESF Director, Grant Goodall, and ESF Advisory Board Member, Lee Miller, have been elected to the Academy of Esperanto Grant Goodall has been elected to the Academy of Esperanto for a nine-year term. Grant first learned Esperanto in his early teens and has a long record of service with ESF, …
Just over fifty years ago, in 1968, the Esperantic Studies Foundation was incorporated as a charitable organization. Since that time, it has remained active in grant-giving, support for programmatic activities, and the actual administration of programs – not just in North America, but all over the world. Its three founders, …
The team of lernu.net is happy to announce the full relaunch of the site. The new lernu.net has an interesting new Esperanto course with hundreds of exercises, illustrations and a large searchable library. The site has been fully modernized and is compatible with new browsers and web technologies which didn’t exist …
Conference to take place at Birkbeck College, University of London 25-26 May 2017 Deadline for submission of abstracts: 1 September 2016 http://www.bbk.ac.uk/reluctantinternationalists/blog/call-papers-languages-internationalism/
Thanks to a grant from ESF, 12 highly-motivated students from Macaulay Honors College of CUNY (City University of New York) were able to participate in a five-week Esperanto course in summer 2015. Director Sam Green (The Universal Language) has made a short video about the course. The video may be …
Watch a short video on Esperanto from TFO (French Television of Ontario) featuring Geoffrey Greatrex, a member of ESF’s Board Directors.
Language and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) was the topic of a symposium held at the Church Center for the United Nations, in New York, on April 21 and 22, 2016. Over one hundred academics, diplomats, NGO representatives and UN officials attended the gathering, which examined the linguistic implications of …
The North American Summer Esperanto Institute (NASK) once again this year joins efforts with the Esperanto Performing Arts and Film Festival and invites you to one of the most outstanding events in Esperanto-land! NASK is the longest-running North American Esperanto course and one of the most important programs supported by …
We are coming to the end of another successful year for ESF, the Esperantic Studies Foundation. Among the numerous activities and organizations supported by ESF, directly or indirectly, were the North American Esperanto Institute (NASK), the web-based program for learning Esperanto Lernu.net, the annual symposium at the United Nations on language and …
Last year ESF launched the campaign “AMU Poznanon” to find additional funding for the Interlinguistic Study Program in Poznan (Poland) at the Adam Mickiewicz University (AMU). ESF has been a long-time supporter of this three year graduate program in the prestigious and second largest university in Poland, and the purpose …
