by Bert Boon | Oct 10, 2022 | [ENGLISH], Numismatics
Numismatics involves much more than just collecting objects and describing them in a scientific fashion. Coins and medals are rightly considered actual artefacts, devised, created and manufactured by artists and medallists who were very often also skilled designers,...
by Simon Davies | Sep 26, 2022 | [ENGLISH], Conlang Excursions
You may recall that a few instalments back, I outlined a fascinating artistic language called Elet Anta that has been all but forgotten since the death of its author. Now I’d like to present another similar curiosity, whose designer – under the pseudonym Galivad –...
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...
by Alessandra Madella | Aug 29, 2022 | [ENGLISH], Interviews
This interview with Croatian author Spomenka Štimec was conducted by Alessandra Madella and first appeared on the Ĉina Radio Internacia website in January 2022. She has kindly offered it for republication here. The International League of Esperanto-Speaking Teachers...
by Stanislav Košecký | Aug 15, 2022 | [ENGLISH], Interlinguistics, Reviews
Piperski, Aleksandr: Конструирование языков: от эсперанто до дотракийского ‘Constructing Languages: from Esperanto to Dothraki’. Moscow, Alypina Non-Fikšn 2017, 224 paĝoj. ISBN 978-5-91671-1. Review by Stanislav Košecký, Slovakia. The book is pictured alongside Dr...
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 Bert Boon | Jul 18, 2022 | [ENGLISH], Numismatics
In his groundbreaking booklet Esperanto-mono (“Esperanto Money”, 2000) Hans Jankowski includes not only Esperanto coins and medallions, but also payment methods and securities of various kinds that have been used as local or event-related means of payment. When...
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...
by Humphrey Tonkin | Jun 20, 2022 | [ENGLISH], Politics
The World Summit on the Information Society Forum was held in Geneva from 30 May to 3 June this year, and Humphrey Tonkin, representing the World Esperanto Association at the UN in his role as vice-president of the NGO Committee on Language and Languages, was invited...
by Alessandra Madella | Jun 6, 2022 | Interviews
This interview with British author Anna Löwenstein was conducted by Alessandra Madella and first appeared on the Ĉina Radio Internacia website in January 2022. She has kindly offered it for republication here. Could you say something about your latest novel, The...
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