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CED turns 70 at the 44th Conference on Esperanto Studies

by Guilherme Fians | Sep 12, 2022 | [ENGLISH], Events, Interlinguistics

On a rainy day in London in 1952, after reading another newspaper article misrepresenting Esperanto as “the failed universal language that’s no longer spoken”, Ivo Lapenna stood up from his office chair, looked out the window and thought: “It’s time to create some...

Nitobe Symposium: Language, Conflict and Security

by Michele Gazzola | Jul 4, 2022 | [ENGLISH], Events, Politics

On the 26th and 27th of July last year, the Centre for Research and Documentation on World Language Problems (CED) organised the online international “Nitobe Symposium: Language, Conflict and Security”. The conveners were Michele Gazzola, Angela Tellier, Mark Fettes...

Montreal: Esperanto’s capital in 2022!

by Yevgeniya Amis | Sep 20, 2021 | [ENGLISH], Events

Montreal will be the capital city for Esperanto in 2022, because that’s where the next World Esperanto Congress will be held, from 6 to 13 August 2022. But what actually is the World Esperanto Congress? We spoke to the team of local organizers – the Local Congress...

Retoso – the new Esperanto youth event!

by Tyron Surmon | Jun 7, 2021 | [ENGLISH], Events

My name is Tyron. I am a British student now living in the United States, but most important for this blog, I was a member of the organizing team of Retoso – the new online event of TEJO (Tutmonda Esperantista Junularo / World Esperanto Youth). Our team had 7 members...