Esther Schor, author of Bridge of Words: Esperanto and the Dream of a Universal Language (Metropolitan Books, 2016) will be the first speaker in a series of lectures memorializing Tivadar Soros, whose memoir Masquerade, written in Esperanto, recorded his successful efforts to keep his family alive and intact in Hungary …
Two years ago 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 students for this three-year graduate program in the prestigious and second largest university in Poland, and …
Dear Friend, Fifteen years ago, the Esperantic Studies Foundation (ESF) funded an enterprising group of young Esperantists to set up a website, Lernu.net. We were confident it would help a new generation learn Esperanto, and connect with people we had never reached before. But the scale of success exceeded our …
Dr. Detlev Blanke, one of the most renowned contemporary scholars in the field of interlinguistics, and long-time ESF partner, died in Berlin on August 20th. Blanke was born May 30th, 1941. In 1957 he taught himself Esperanto. He received his Ph. D. in 1976 with a dissertation comparing word creation …
ESF notes, with deepest regret, the passing of Paul Gubbins, beloved professor in ESF’s North American Summer Courses, author of the screenplay for Pasporto al la Tuta Mondo, the Esperanto television course for which ESF provided partial support, and well-known figure in the Esperanto movement, particularly as editor of the …
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 …
