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 …
The Phenomenon of Esperanto is the title of a special issue of the journal Interdisciplinary Description of Complex Systems (INDECS), published recently in Croatia. The collection, edited by Professor Humphrey Tonkin and Dr. Veronika Poór, is issue 2 of volume 13 of INDECS (2015). The collection is in English with …
A quite extraordinary Esperanto course took place this year in New York City. 12 outstanding students from the City University of New York (CUNY), Macaulay Honors College (where the top 0.33% of the university’s students study) took part in a 10-day direct method Esperanto course in May and June 2015. …
Two new books, published with ESF support, debuted this year during the World Esperanto Congress in Lille, France: UEA en konscio de esperantistoj (“The World Esperanto Association in the consciousness of Esperantists”) by Zbigniew Galor and JukkaPietiläinen, and Gvidlibro tra Esperantio (konciza leksikono de la Esperanto-kulturo: esperantonimoj, realioj kaj flugilhavaj …
Two new books, published with ESF support, debuted this year during the World Esperanto Congress in Lille, France: UEA en konscio de esperantistoj (“The World Esperanto Association in the consciousness of Esperantists”) by Zbigniew Galor and JukkaPietiläinen, and Gvidlibro tra Esperantio (konciza leksikono de la Esperanto-kulturo: esperantonimoj, realioj kaj flugilhavaj …
In 2015 NASK returns to William Peace University in Raleigh, North Carolina, and it joins forces with the Esperanto Performing Arts and Film Festival (Kino-Teatro-Festivalo: KTF) to deliver an exceptional event and possibly the most talked-about NASK in the history of the courses! The North American Summer Institute (Nord-Amerika Somera …
The Study Group on Language at the United Nations, in cooperation with the Centre for Research and Documentation on World Language Problems, invites you to contribute to a symposium on “language and exclusion” on Thursday, May 7, 2015, at the Church Center (777 United Nations Plaza) from 9:15 a.m. to …
Happy Holidays from ESF! In this beautiful season of year-end celebrations, we here at ESF and Lernu.net send our warmest greetings and wish you and your family a happy and hope-filled 2015. We also thank all of you who donated to ESF and Lernu.net for your generous and faithful support, …
Year-end greetings from ESF In the closing moments of the year we tend to pause and look back, reflect upon the events of the year. Therefore, looking back over ESF’s activity in 2013, we wish to share a few notable events: Changes in the ESF Board New president Having served …
