Conference on Esperanto Studies, 2025
The 47th Conference on Esperanto Studies 2025
Esperanto and technologies
Place: Brno, The Czech Republic
Time: July 31 2025, from 9 a.m. to 12 p.m.
Organized by: Klaus Schubert kaj Bengt-Arne Wickström
Hosted as part of the 110th World Esperanto Congress
About the
Programme
July 31
09:00-09:30 – Opening Session: Welcome and brief presentation of CED, Information for Interlinguists, Esperantology / Esperanto Studies, and LPLP – Language Problems and Language Planning
Bengt-Arne WICKSTRÖM
09:30-10:30 – Session I: Collections of Esperanto Texts
The Archive of the Universal Esperanto Association
The Notebooks of Henri Ellenberger: A Unique Esperanto Corpus
Bengt-Arne WICKSTRÖM
Bernhard Tuider, Austria
Yevgenya Amis, Emmanuel Delille, Pascal Dubourg Glatigny, Irène Ellenberger and Gabriel Labrie, France
10:30-11:00 – Coffee Break
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11:00-12:00 – Session II: The Use of Esperanto
Esperanto as a Family Language
Is Multilingualism and Esperanto Necessary in the Age of AI?
Eszter «Stela» Besenyei-Merger, Hungary
Ilona Koutny, Hungary/Poland
12:00-14:00 – Coffee Break
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14:00-15:00 – Session III: The Value of Learning Esperanto and Its Influence on Other Languages
How to Be Heard in a World of Achievements, Money, and Metrics: The Value of Propedeutics
The Esperanto Experiments of Thorndike and Eaton in Educational Debates
Ekaterina V. Bebenina, Germany/Russia
Alessandra Madella, China/Italy
15:00-16:00 – Session IV: Grammar and Sociolinguistics of Esperanto
The Phenomenon of Doubling in Esperanto from a Linguistic Perspective
Interlinguistics and the Concept of Hope
Philippe Planchon, France
Humphrey Tonkin, United States
16:00-16:30 – Coffee Break
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16:30-17:30 – Session V: General Discussion on the Future of Interlinguistics and Esperantology
Introductory Remarks by:
Ilona Koutny, Hungary/Poland
Alessandra Madella, China/Italy
Humphrey Tonkin, United States
Followed by comments from all participants
Bengt-Arne WICKSTRÖM