What We (Should) Talk About When We Talk About Translating Esperanto Literature
Translators of literature from so-called “small” languages into English are often thrust into an unusual role. Beyond representing individual authors and their works, these translators are asked to serve as the seemingly sole ambassadors for an entire culture, tasked...
Conlang Excursions 2: Down the Rabbit-Hole
My previous post gave a brief sketch of Elefen, a.k.a. Lingua Franca Nova, a regularised Romance creole, and pointed out some of the ways in which it resembles and differs from Esperanto. This time I’ll be looking at how well these two languages fare at translating...
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...
Libraries 2: The national Esperanto archive in Croatia
The national Esperanto archive in Croatia, Dokumenta Esperanto-Centro (DEC), was founded as a private collection by Josip Pleadin in the 1980s. Iwas made official by the founding of a society of the same name on June 13, 2010. It is located in the town of Đurđevac,...
History and Esperanto
I am a historian – more precisely, a classicist, i.e. a specialist in the Graeco-Roman world – and an Esperanto-speaker. For some twenty-five years I have taught and researched in this field, concentrating on the period of the Emperor Justinian (A.D. 527-565), for the...
Esperantic Studies Foundation 2021 – An update on plans in the new year from the executive director
Welcome to 2021! In this update I will start with a few words about the role of the executive director and how ESF operates. This is mainly for those new to ESF. Some of what I do as executive director is mundane, but necessary: bookkeeping, budgeting, organizing...
Conlang Excursions 1: A Journey in Elefenland
Constructed languages are fascinating. Beyond the Esperanto-dominated field of IALs (international auxiliaries), creative minds have come up with thousands of experimental or artistic languages, often purely for the pleasure of doing so. In this occasional series,...
Libraries 1: Digital media from the Department of Planned Languages at the Austrian National Library
Since its foundation in 1927, the Esperanto Museum at the Austrian National Library has been holding an extensive library and archives, which were given the name Department of Planned Languages in 1990. Located in the Palais Mollard (see image above) it is home to the...
The politics of language: the case of Hyderabad, “Decolonial Subversions”, and Esperanto in an Indian University
Monika begins. Thinking of linguistic justice and decolonisation brings me back to one humid summer afternoon – it must have been around 2010-11 – when, sitting in the living room of an apartment-block in the South Indian city of Hyderabad, I was engrossed in my first...IfI: Information for Interlinguists
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