Ralph L. Harry: A Legacy of Diplomacy, Human Rights, and Linguistic Equality at the United Nations
H.E. Ralph Lindsay Harry, C.B. E. (1917—2002) Australian Delegate to the United Nations Commission on Human Rights Permanent Representative of Australia to the United Nations UEA Honorary Patron Committee Member (1967) Honora Patrona Komitato (1967) A Tribute With the...
Decoloniality “against” and “for” in English language teaching
Ingapirca Archeological Site, Ecuador. Inca’s Face (Cara del Inca). Photo by the author. English language educators in postcolonial countries such as Ecuador face two challenges. Firstly, they need to embrace the fact that they teach a colonial language using teaching...
New Audio Guide for the Esperanto Museum of the Austrian National Library
The Esperanto Museum of the Austrian National Library, founded in 1927, is one of the most traditional language museums in the world. The museum not only presents the Esperanto language and topics from the history of the Esperanto movement, it also deals with...
Update on la Tekstaro and PIV
Work on the Textbook of Esperanto (la Tekstaro), and on the future version of the Full Illustrated Dictionary of Esperanto (PIV) is fiercely progressing. The two projects, both funded by the Esperantic Studies Foundation, have merged into one project, because the...
The Esperanto Textbooks That Never Were
Among the many joys of doing research, my favourite is best described as “archival serendipity” – to find something you were not actually looking for. Few things are more attractive than pulling on a thread you never knew was there, just to see what might unravel....
The early days of Esperanto in Bohemia
Prague is a stunningly beautiful city. When you wander around the city centre you will hear a myriad of languages. Perhaps not Esperanto, yet it is there if you look for it. If you walk across the Old Town Square towards the Powder Tower you will see the Charles...
Conlang Excursions 7: Esperanto in a parallel universe
Just a few steps away in the infinite multiverse, a version of you is reading this in Volapük. Volapük was the first international language to achieve any noticeable success. A German Catholic priest called Johann Martin Schleyer (rhymes with “higher”) devised it on a...
The Esperanto World Congress that almost did not happen: Barcelona, 1909
Since their origins, Esperanto World Congresses have been more than a celebration. They are living proof of Esperanto’s success and popularity. The benefits congresses bring to the movement are beyond question and have been thoroughly discussed within both Esperantism...
Early Esperantists in Bohemia: Josef Grňa and Jakub Arbes
Pardubice. Kutná Hora. Svitavy. Jevíčko. Hradec Králové. Smíchov. Have you ever heard of any of these places? Worry not, me neither – at least not until recently. Let us start with and in Smíchov. In 2020, the ESF generously funded my project “Local Internationalist?...IfI: Information for Interlinguists
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