What can be done to promote multilingualism in the work of the United Nations? How would it make the UN more effective? These were questions raised at a recent symposium on multilingualism organized by the Study Group on Language and the UN. Participants agreed that the UN’s language needs extend …
The next Nitobe Symposium will take place in Lisbon on August 4-5 (Saturday and Sunday), 2018, on the topic “Teaching and Research on Esperanto in the Context of Interlinguistics, Sociolinguistics, and the Social Sciences.” Sponsoring organizations The symposium organizer is the Centre for Research and Documentation on World Language Problems (CED), with …
ESF has recently announced the appointment of a new coordinator of university affairs as successor to Dr. Asya Pereltsvaig, who withdrew from that position in late 2017. The new coordinator is Angela Tellier, of Britain. She will have responsibility for making contact with university personnel and other specialists who are …
Language and language difference is an often underestimated or overlooked dimension in the effectiveness of the United Nations in many fields – from administration to economic and social development, from peacekeeping to diplomacy, and in many places in between. The Study Group on Language and the United Nations, founded in …
With the assistance of a grant from the Esperantic Studies Foundation, Russian journalists Halina Goretska and Aleksander Korzhenkov have recently published Nia Diligenta Kolegaro, a compilation of detailed biographies of 200 leading Esperanto speakers from the beginning of the language down to today. Included are Esperanto activists in the organization …
Two recent gifts by the Esperantic Studies Foundation (ESF) will help preserve the history of Esperanto societies in North America and assist in building library collections on Esperanto and related fields. Under the leadership of Special Collections Director Robert Cox, the Du Bois Library at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, …
The Esperantic Studies Foundation (ESF) has provided the Hector Hodler Library with a small operating grant of $8000 to assist it in cataloguing and administrative work. One of the world’s largest collections of Esperanto books and other materials, the library is housed at the headquarters of the Universal Esperanto …
A recent grant by the Esperantic Studies Foundation (ESF) to Esperanto USA, the national association of Esperanto speakers, is intended to lend support to E-USA’s efforts to serve new learners of Esperanto in the US. Over one million people have downloaded the Duolingo Esperanto-learning app designed for speakers of English, …
A significant gift by the Esperantic Studies Foundation has helped assure the future of Esperanto studies and interlinguistics at a leading Dutch university. Totaling $27,000 (€21,700), the gift to the Middelkoop Fund of the Universal Esperanto Association will be used to underwrite the continuation of the chair in Esperanto and …
In 2018, NASK will have four course levels (including, for the first time in many years, a beginner course), renowned instructors (Katalin Kováts, Anna Löwenstein, José Antonio Vergara and Thomas Alexander) and as a special guest speaker the former president of UEA, Renato Corsetti. And KTF (the Kino-Teatro-Festo) will be …
