Seeking a Universal Tongue
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...
Archives at Vienna’s Esperanto Museum
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...
Marjorie Boulton Fellowship Report
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...
The history of the Vidyasagar Prize
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...
Brian Kaneen: a major donor to the Esperantic Studies Foundation
The Esperantic Studies Foundation (ESF) supports a wide range of interlingual research and educational initiatives around the world. Researchers and educators seeking support for interlanguage projects are encouraged to browse the website to learn whether ESF can...
Giuseppe Peano and “Latino sine Flexione”
Giuseppe Peano (1858–1932) is well known in the history of mathematics for his innovations in mathematical notation and his axiomatic theory of natural numbers (“Peano axioms”). These contributions have their origin in the modern philosopher Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz...
NASK: North American Summer Courses
NASK (North American Summer Courses) was born in California in the 1970s after Catherine (“Cathy”) L. Schulze and her husband William (“Bill”) H. Schulze took part in an Esperanto course at North Adams State College, in Massachusetts, in 1969, led by Professor Duncan...
Clarence Bicknell – Esperanto with gusto
Clarence Bicknell, after flirting with Volapük, discovered Esperanto in 1897, ten years after Zamenhof published his Unua Libro. How and where he heard about the language remain a mystery but the spark took flame in Clarence’s head. Bicknell threw himself into...
Pioneers of internationalism
At the turn of the twentieth century, the centre of the Esperanto movement moved to Paris, the city of light. In 1905, the first international Esperanto congress took place in France, with 688 participants from all over the world. Without interpreters, they carried...IfI: Information for Interlinguists
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