12/10/2017 01:00 pm

12/10/2017 03:00 pm

America/New_York

"Bridge of Words: 130 Years of Esperanto and the Dream of a Universal Language"

130 years ago, Dr. Ludwik Zamenhof had a vision of a language that would connect the nations of the world: the international language Esperanto.

Today, as UNESCO celebrates 100 years since Zamenhof’s death, Esperanto is spoken in a hundred countries and has its own vibrant culture and literature.

Join literary scholar Esther Schor for a talk on Zamenhof’s life, legacy, and Esperanto today. Joining her in discussion will be Chair of the Esperantic Studies Foundation

Humphrey Tonkin and Esperanto translator Sebastian Schulman.

Esther Schor is a poet and professor of English at Princeton University, and author of Bridge of Words: Esperanto and the Dream of a Universal Language.

Humphrey Tonkin is President and University Professor of the Humanities Emeritus at the University of Hartford.

Sebastian Schulman’s translation of Croatian War Nocturnal by Spomenka Štimec was published in 2017 by Phoneme Media.