by Pilar Requejo de Lamo | Jan 23, 2023 | [ENGLISH], History, Movement
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...
by Bernhard Struck | Jan 9, 2023 | [ENGLISH], History
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?...
by Redakcio | Dec 12, 2022 | [ENGLISH], History
In mid November 2022, Croatia’s national Esperanto archive, Dokumenta Esperanto-Centro (DEC), completed its very important digitization project for the journals Konkordo (1924–1928), Balkana Konkordo (1931) and La Suda Stelo (1932–1973). Around 4200 pages were...
by Pilar Requejo de Lamo | Nov 28, 2022 | [ENGLISH], History, Movement, Politics
The picture shows Esperantists performing the Catalan dance “La Sardana”. Unique as Esperantism was and still is, it has not failed to interact as a social phenomenon with other significant movements throughout history. Far from being a peculiar event, isolated from...
by Pilar Requejo de Lamo | Nov 28, 2022 | [ESPAÑOL], History, Movimiento, Política
La imagen muestra a los esperantistas interpretando el baile catalán “La Sardana”. Único como fue y sigue siendo el esperantismo, no ha dejado de interactuar como fenómeno social con otros movimientos significativos a lo largo de la historia. Lejos de ser un...
by Marcus Bicknell | Aug 1, 2022 | [ENGLISH], History
We are proud to announce the worldwide publication of Clarence Bicknell’s Book of Guests in Esperanto, a masterpiece of dedication and arts-and-crafts talent in watercolours by a light-hearted polymath of the late 19th century. Clarence Bicknell (1842-1918) built his...
by Yauheniya Hudziyeva | May 23, 2022 | History, Interlinguistics
On 25 March 2022, a panel “Seeking a Universal Tongue: Esperanto and Politics in East Asia” took place at the annual conference of the Association for Asian Studies in Honolulu, Hawaii. The panel presented papers by Joshua Fogel (York University, Canada), Yauheniya...
by Bernhard Tuider | Feb 14, 2022 | [ENGLISH], History, Libraries
The Esperanto Museum in Vienna has for a long time been mainly regarded as a museum and library concerning Esperanto and constructed languages, but in fact, since its foundation in 1927, it has also been home to content-rich archives. Today the Esperanto Museum...
by Edwin Michielsen | Jan 31, 2022 | [ENGLISH], History, Interlinguistics
Born in Gouda in the Netherlands, I had a strong interest in foreign languages from an early age. I had the opportunity to learn several modern and classical languages in school. Upon graduation, I decided to expand my interest by choosing to study Japanese in...
by Probal Dasgupta | Dec 6, 2021 | [ENGLISH], History
When informing an international audience that the ministry of higher education in the government of West Bengal (an administrative area of India) has awarded the “Vidyasagar Prize” to an Esperantist in 2021, one must first say a few words among other things about...
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