Jonathan Swift en Esperanto-vivo

Antonio De Salvo dufoje afiŝis pri Jonathan Swift:

Jonathan Swift (19 Oktobro 2020)

....kaj pli amplekse:

Jonathan Swift (30 Novembro 2019)

Louis Couturat (2): Leibniz, logic, & artificial language

Now on my web site: a section of Louis Couturat's essay 'The Principles of Logic' in Logic (1913) by Arnold Ruge et al, with a focus on univocity & reversibility in an artificial language, with examples from Ido:

Logic and Language (The Principles of Logic) by Louis Couturat

Couturat's essay reflects the philology (ancestor of modern linguistics) of the time, with notions about the evolution of natural languages and so on. I am not familiar enough with the language Ido to judge its application if any of univocity with respect to the lexicon (semantics), or if the grammar is more logical than Esperanto in ways other than word derivation, not that I am familiar with word derivation in Ido either. Word derivation in Esperanto is inconsistent and less than logical, and the prepositions still carry some idiomatic uses over from Esperanto's source languages. Note also that Couturat is concerned here strictly with logic and precision. There is no consideration of aesthetics, artistic uses, or the speech community of an artificial language, which is where Ido's ancestor, Esperanto, most successfully pitched its tent.

On my web site see also:

Histoire de la Langue Universelle par Louis Couturat & Léopold Leau (1903)

"Leibniz, Couturat kaj la Teorio de Ido" de Tazio Carlevaro

“Lingvoplanado” (Language Planning) de Rudolf Carnap

You will find also updated and additional links on Couturat's work on Leibniz and logic.

Novalis and ars combinatoria

I had some harsh words for Novalis--in Esperanto--when I blogged about his Notes for a Romantic Encyclopaedia: Das Allgemeine Brouillon (published in English translation in 2007) eight years ago. It turns out though, that there is quite interesting philosophical content in Early German Romanticism. Here is an essay that highlights among other things Novalis' philosophical engagement with the ars combinatoria:

Redding, Paul. "Mathematics, Computation, Language and Poetry: The Novalis Paradox," in The Relevance of Romanticism: Essays on German Romantic Philosophy edited by Dalia Nassar (Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2014), pp. 221-238.

Various essays in this book demonstrate that Novalis and his colleagues (note especially Friedrich Schlegel) were not mere mathematical and philosophical dilettantes. Early German Romanticism is now being taken seriously in the anglophone world for its philosophical and not merely literary and literary-critical contributions. Its engagement with German idealism is receiving concentrated attention. I am not prepared to comment on his use of the ars combinatoria. This essay though is a must-read on the subject.

Mór Jókai & planlingvoj

Lastatempe mi afiŝis pri kolekto da esperantologiaj referaĵoj: Memorlibro: Esperantologia prelegaro, en kiu vi trovos listigon da elektitaj kontribuoj.

Nun mi atentigas pri du rimarkindaj referaĵoj de Árpád Rátkai:

"Lingvoplanado en Hungario" (442-461)
"La internacilingva movado en Hungario ĝis la apero de Esperanto" (462-490)

El tiuj mi tiris ĉerpaĵojn pri fama hungara verkisto Mór Jókai (1825–1904), kiu traktis la temon de mondlingvo en kelkaj verkoj:

Pri Mór Jókai & planlingvoj de Árpád Ràtkai

Tie vi trovos ankaŭ tabelon da gravaj hungaroj kiuj pritraktis la interlingvan temon inter 1772 & 1956.

Miareteje vi trovos plurajn ligitajn erojn en Esperanto kaj en la angla lingvo pri Mór Jókai kaj pri la historio de interlingvistiko en Hungario kaj Eŭropo. Mi listigos jene nur tiujn rilate al Mór Jókai kaj interlingvistiko:

“Mór Jókai” de Zsuzsa Varga-Haszonits

“Mondlingvo de Mór Jókai” de Tivia

“Volapuka Lando en Siberio” (Pri "Csalavér" de Mór Jókai)

Memorlibro: Esperantologia prelegaro

Dankon al ekstrema rabato, mi povis aĉeti de la usona Esperanto-USA libroservo la jenan kongresesearon:

Memorlibro: kolekto de la prelegoj dum la solena internacia konferenco organizita okaze de la tridekjariĝo de la universitata fako Esperantologio (Budapeŝto, 17/18-04-1997), ĉefred. Tamás Gecső, red. Zsuzsa Varga-Haszonits & Lariko Golden, kunlaboris Anita Renkecz. Budapest: Universitato Eötvös Loránd, Katedro pri Ĝenerala kaj Aplikata Lingvistiko / Eötvös Loránd Tudományegyetem, 1998.

Mi jam afiŝis pri unu eseo kiun mi bitigis kaj enretigis:

Je la centjara datreveno de naskiĝo de Sándor Szathmári” (1997) de Éva Tófalvi, p. 346-350.

La eseoj en la Memorlibro troveblas sub la jenaj kategorioj:

I. Esperanta Kulturo (p. 14-114)
II. Instruado de Esperanto (116-201)
III. Esperanto - lingvo kaj literaturo (202-361)
IV. Movadhistorio (362-490)

Mi povus listigi la tutan enhavtabelon, sed ne ĉi-foje. Temas nur pri miaj propraj interesoj kaj gusto, sed la kontribuoj kiuj plej interesas min troveblas en sekcio III, kaj iom en sekcio IV.  Estas gravaj informoj en aliaj eseoj, sed nun mi mencios tiujn kiuj entute plej kaptas mian atenton:

Franz-Georg Rössler: "Esperanto kaj la aktuala muzika stilo" (96-99)
Blazio Vaha: "Faktoroj de lingvoevoluo tra la historio de lingvoj, planlingvoj, Esperanto" (202-266)
Ivo Borovečki: "Tradukoj el la kroata literaturo en Esperanton" (268-283)
Miklós Fehér: “Pri poezia artospeco, kiun Parnasa Gvidlibro kaj PIV nomas simple balado" (284-292)
Lariko Golden: "Literaturo kaj literaturkritiko en Esperanto" (298-303)

. . . kaj interlingvistike:

Zsuzsanna Csiszár: "Otto Jespersen en Esperanto-movadhistorio" (384-390)
Árpád Rátkai: "Lingvoplanado en Hungario: (442-461)
Árpád Rátkai: "La internacilingva movado en Hungario ĝis la apero de Esperanto" (462-490)

Jan Amos Komenský, refoje

Jen alia retpaĝo de la verko Jan Amos Komenský (Johano Amos Comenius) (1921) de Jan Václav Novák, tradukis Rondeto de Esperantistinoj en Praha, kun antaŭparolo.

Kaj jen nova afiŝo kun traduketo el Via Lucis kaj bibliografio, informoj pri Jan Hus, k.a.:

Jan Amos Komensky de Antonio De Salvo (15 Novembro 2018).

Jen plu: Johano Amoso Komenio - Vikipedio.

Carnap, Esperantisto

La 14-an de septembro, okaze de la datreveno de la morto de la filozofo Rudolf Carnap (1891-1970), Antonio De Salvo afiŝis:

Rudolf Carnap (14 Septembro 2018)

Troveblas tie biografieto kun intelekta kaj politika kunteksto. Rimarku, ekz.:

Kuriozaĵo: forkurinte el Germanio pro siaj maldekstraj ideoj, Carnap spertis similajn malfacilaĵojn ankaŭ en Usono, kiam, en 1953, li devis rifuzi la nomumon ĉe la Universitato de Kalifornio por ne subskribi la ĵuron de fideleco en la erao de la tiel dirita Makartiismo

Tion sekvas ĉerpaĵo el mia traduko de Sekcio 11, “Lingvoplanado” de “Intelekta Aŭtobiografio” de Rudolf Carnap, kiun vi trovos ĉe mia retejo.

Referencoj:

• "Lingvoplanado" (Language Planning) de Rudolf Carnap
• Carnap pri Wittgenstein kaj Esperanto
• Wittgenstein on Esperanto
• Ludwig Wittgenstein and Constructed Languages: Wittgenstein, Esperanto by T. Peter Park

John Wilkins & Menace from the Moon

Now here's an interesting item!

Menace from the Moon. London: Jarrolds, 1925.

• Menace from the Moon (1925 novel) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
• The Menace from the Moon (by Bohun Lynch): A review by Georges T. Dodds (SF Site, 2002)
• Lynch, Bohun (SFE, April 27, 2017)

See also:

• Philosophical and Universal Languages, 1600-1800, and Related Themes: Selected Bibliography
• Science Fiction & Utopia Research Resources: A Selective Work in Progress

Bohun Lynch (1884-1928) was known for other work, including his expertise as a caricaturist. This is his sole science fiction novel, which involves encountering the universal character of John Wilkins (1614-1672) on the Moon. Wilkins himself speculated on how one could travel to the Moon. This is documented in my earlier blog posts on Wilkins.

I was not aware of other uses of Wilkins in fiction, until now: according to the entry on Wilkins in SFE: The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction:

Wilkins appears as a character in Neal Stephenson's historical fantasia about the Enlightenment, The Baroque Cycle (2003-2004), where he is described as the author of a text called Quicksilver, which presumably represents a transubstantiation of Mercury (see above), a text named in the sequence.

There is some poetic justice here, given that the moon is the theme. This novel, unfortunately, is rarer than Lynch's other books. The Library of Congress, the world's largest library, has other books by this author but not this one. If I wanted to purchase a copy today, it would cost me US $120. 

Vladimir Nabokov (2): Pala Fajro

Antaŭ pluraj jaroj mi legis, ne kun multe da pacienco, la kuriozan metafikcian verkon Pale Fire de Vladimir Nabokov, kiu konsistas el antaŭparolo, poemo (verko en la verko), kaj komentaro pri la poemo.

Plu pri tio kaj pri Nabokov troveblas en mia bibliografio:

Vladimir Nabokov: Science Fiction, Artificial Languages, Ars Combinatoria, Narrative Structure, Martin Gardner, Play: An Arbitrary Bibliography

Mi aldonis sekcion pri (Nova) Zembla, reala loko kiu eble havas ligon al ĉi tiu verko kaj ankaŭ rolas en poemoj de aliaj verkistoj, ekz. la konata hungardevena poeto kaj tradukisto George Szirtes (kiu interalie angligis La Tragedio de l' Homo).

La poemo mem (verko en la verko) ricevis Esperantan tradukon:

Pala Fajro, tradukis/adaptis Meva Maron, La Kromkancerkliniko, n-ro 7 (suplemento al La Kancerkliniko, n-ro 52, 1989).

La originalo ne inspiris min, sed ĝi interesis min pro la fickia lingvo Zemblan kaj la temo kombinatoriko (kiu rilatas al mia longtempa intereso pri la historio de ars combinatoria). Hieraŭ mi legis la Unuan Kanton de la traduko, kaj ĝuis la belan lingvaĵon. Do gratulon al Meva Maron!

En mia antaŭa afiŝo ĉi-tema mi aldonis mian tradukon de versoj pri kombinatoriko. Jen la traduko de la samaj versoj fare de Meva Maron, el la Kvara Kanto, versoj 970-976:

                Mi sentas min kompreni
l’ ekziston, aŭ almenaŭ etan parton
de mia ekzistado, nur ĉar arton
esprimas kombinatorika rav’;
do se validas mia skanda prav’
de l’ mond’ privata, ankaŭ l’ univers’
sonoras ĝuste, laŭ mia jamba vers’.

On Carnap as an Esperantist & cosmopolitan (vs Heidegger)

As the philosopher Michael Friedman has recently shown, Carnap knew Heidegger’s work and standpoints well, and had read him quite seriously. He attended the debate between Heidegger and Cassirer at Davos in 1929 and took a walk with Heidegger and conversed with him in a café. He studied Sein und Zeit (Being and Time) and expounded its philosophical purpose to the Vienna Circle around Moritz Schlick as an entrée to the group. Heidegger represented a rival means and approach to “overcoming metaphysics,” the task that this magician of the Black Forest promised to accomplish by going back to a more primordial, prerational sense of human existence, its elementary Dasein, which stood as the opposite of the progress of science and cosmopolitan modernity. Once Heidegger had turned Nazi, Schlick had been murdered, and Carnap, Neurath, and Philipp Frank—along with their allies Hans Reichenbach and Carl Hempel in Berlin— began to migrate West, away from anti-Semitic repression, their political conflict with the forces of the xenophobic Right filled out and extended the terms of the methodological conflict.

This was the original “linguistic turn.” Recent biographies have strongly humanized Rudolf Carnap away from the image of a stern logician and into a true man of enlightenment and a utopian of international cooperation. Carnap favored the construction of “ideal languages” both in logic and in reality, artificial languages that could overcome the errors and historical demerits of natural language, not from any disapproval of human history but because he maintained the cosmopolitan Enlightenment ethos of Kant’s “Perpetual Peace,” as in his love of Esperanto. Friedman has pointed out the touching rhapsody in Carnap’s intellectual autobiography when he recounts teaching himself the language at the age of fourteen and attending a performance of Goethe’s noble Iphigenia performed in the rationalized international language. “It was a stirring and uplifting experience for me to hear this drama, inspired by the ideal of one humanity, expressed in the new medium which made it possible for thousands of spectators from many countries to understand it.” After the tragedy of World War I, young man Carnap hiked through Finland, Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania with a Bulgarian friend: “We stayed with hospitable Esperantists and made contact with many people in these countries. We talked about all kinds of problems in public and in personal life, always, of course, in Esperanto.”

SOURCE: Greif, Mark. The Age of the Crisis of Man: Thought and Fiction in America, 1933–1973 (Princeton University Press, 2015), chapter 10--Universal Philosophy and Antihumanist Theory, pp. 288-289.

Ursula K. Le Guin & Ilan Stavans on Esperanto

Conley, Tim; Cain, Stephen. Encyclopedia of Fictional and Fantastic Languages, foreword by Ursula K. Le Guin. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2006.

The preface mentions why languages like Esperanto are not covered. Nonetheless, Esperanto is mentioned in this reference work.

Note p. xxiii: "The polyglot mash [of James Joyce] is not an operative language but a poetics embodied, just as Esperanto is an allegory of a political vision."

Page references: xix, xxii, xxiii, and ...

3: Europanto
14: Atlantean like Esperanto
30: Code 46, Gattaca, Esperanto
35: The Confidential Agent: Entrenationo like Esperanto
45: Dinotopian like Esperanto
53: Dune's languages and Esperanto
170: Estimated number of speakers of Klingon and Esperanto
221: Zamenhof, Creator of Esperanto by Marjorie Boulton (1960), in the bibliography, with annotation mentioning its "conspicuously hagiographic tendencies"

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In the encyclopedia's [of fictional languages] foreword, Ursula K. Le Guin, author of The Dispossessed, laments that its editors omitted examples like Esperanto, which, in Le Guin's words, “though utopian are not fictional.” Zamenhof, in his grave, could feel his achievement might have come short. But that it isn't fictional is proof that humankind never tires of looking for ways to becomes whole again."

  – in "Doctor Esperanto" in Stavans's Typewriter and Mine: Reflections on Jewish Culture by Ilan Stavans (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2012 ), p. 43.

Wilkins to the Moon

This is not the first time in recent memory an article has been published on his subject and documented on this blog. Here is another one:

The Man Who Planned A 17th Century Moon Landing (Curiosity)

This article links to the Atlas Obscura article I previously documented. In this article the faulty scientific assumptions of the time are outlined. Wilkins, nevertheless, was a visionary of the scientific revolution.

James Joyce & Esperanto (1)

While I have been aware of a prominent mention of Esperanto in Ulysses for 40 years, the linkage of James Joyce and Esperanto is a new project for me. See the relevant web pages I have added to my site, below. Supplementary information is welcome. I need scans of certain Esperanto items.

Kvankam mi eksciis pri la mencio de Esperanto en la verko Uliso [Ulysses] de James Joyce antaŭ 40 jaroj, la ligo inter Joyce kaj Esperanto estas nova mia projekto. Jen la ĝisnunaj miaj retpaĝoj. Aldonaj informoj estas bonvenigotaj. Mi bezonas skanaĵojn de specifaj dokumentoj.

• James Joyce & Esperanto: Selected Bilingual Bibliography / Elektita Dulingva Bibliografio
• James Joyce en Literatura Mondo (with additional commentary in English)
• La problemo de la malfruoj de Giorgio Silfer
• “Giacomo Joyce” de James Joyce, trad. Kris Long

There is a strong Hungarian connection in Joyce, and, coincidentally, Hungary was the hub of Esperanto literature for decades, so this bibliography is relevant as well . . .

Hungario rolas en verkoj de Joyce, aparte Uliso, kaj koincide, Hungario estis la centro de beletra aktivado de la Esperanto-movado, do mia jena anglalingva bibliografio estas ankaŭ rimarkinda:

• James Joyce & Hungary: Selected Bibliography

Another coincidence: Prof. Nico Israel will deliver his lecture “‘Militopucos’: James Joyce and Universal Language” on October 13, 2017 at the City University of New York (CUNY) in the series Soros Lectures in New York, NY, December 2016 - Fall 2017.  See also...

Jen plua koincido: Prof-o Nico Israel prelegos pri ‘Militopucos’: James Joyce and Universal Language” je la 13a de oktobro ĉe Universitato de Novjorkurbo (CUNY) en la serio Soros Lectures [Soros-Prelegoj]. Jen lia grava anglalingva eseo:

• “Esperantic Modernism: Joyce, Universal Language, and Political Gesture” [Esperanta modernismo: Joyce, universala lingvo, kaj politika gestado], M/m, Volume 2, Issue 1, Feb. 21, 2017.

Tomorrow (June 16) is Bloomsday (named after the protagonist Leopold Bloom), the day in which the novel Ulysses transpires. Perhaps I can contribute something in Esperanto for the occasion.

Morgaŭ (la 16an de junio) estos Bloomsday [mankas artikolo en Vikipedio]--laŭ Leopold Bloom--la tago dum kiu la "eventoj" de Uliso okazas. Eble mi kontribuos ion en Esperanto por la okazo.

Mario Pei: Wanted: A World Language

I have documented Mario Pei's contribution to interlinguistics (i.e. the field of study of the creation and adoption of a universal or international auxiliary language) in English and Esperanto.  Here is another noteworthy contribution to the popularization and advocacy of the idea:

Wanted: A World Language by Mario Pei

Pei's 1969 pamphlet is a condensed argument for the adoption of an international auxiliary language, outlining the history of the idea and the relevant projects, the various options and arguments pro and con, with an exposition of Esperanto, reading list, and directory.

Pei in his 1958 book One Language for the World treated this topic extensively and most comprehensively for the first time in English at least since A Planned Auxiliary Language by Henry Jacob (1947, following Jacob's 1946 On the Choice of a Common Language).

For more on this topic see my web pages:

• Esperanto & Interlinguistics Study Guide
• Philosophical and Universal Languages, 1600-1800, and Related Themes: Selected Bibliography

For an historical overview of the field with links to notable texts see:

International Auxiliary Languages

Note that my web page of Pei's pamphlet contains the corrected, current links to Pei's other works online.

One must not get the impression that Pei was a respected linguist. He was not. He was also a crank conservative, but at least not of the paranoid variety that rejected any manifestation of internationalism. This is probably a result of having to think in international terms in the fight against the Axis powers in World War II. Pei can at least be credited as a popularizer of languages, mutilingualism, and early 20th century linguistics, and as a leading popularizer and advocate of the quest for a universal language.

James Joyce vs the characteristica universalis

Who needs a perfect language? It’s already perfectly imperfect by Charlie Huenemann (Aeon)

The author piggybacks off Umberto Eco's The Search for a Perfect Language (1995), discussing the characteristica universalis projected by Leibniz and John Wilkins' attempted realization of the concept. (Note a reference new to me: Language, Mind and Nature (2007) by Rhodri Lewis.)

This is a story I've known since I was 14 years old many decades ago.

Huenemann moves on to a resurrection of this dream by Rudolf Carnap, a key figure of the logical positivists.  Huenemann thinks that Carnap slipped up in his dismissal of Heidegger as nonsense. Huenemann extols the creativity of language beyond the strict confines of logic, citing the examples of William Shakespeare, James Joyce and Maya Angelou.

This little article is unfortunately characteristic of the poorly conceived intellectual fluff that Aeon offers all too often. A better explanation--even a brief one--of the underlying assumptions of the projects of both Leibniz and Joyce would have been far more illuminating, as would the posited contrast between the attempt to squeeze all of cognition into formal logic and what the creative extensions of language actually accomplish. (And Maya Angelou, really?)

The Wikipedia article on characteristica universalis yields surprisingly rich information. See also my bibliographies....

Philosophical and Universal Languages, 1600-1800, and Related Themes: Selected Bibliography

... and ...

Leibniz & Ideology: Selected Bibliography

John Wilkins' 17​th​-Century Moon Mission

I have blogged about this before, once in Esperanto, once in English. These historical tidbits keep getting rediscovered, this time by one of my favorite enterprises, Atlas Obscura:

The 17​th​-Century Moon Mission That Never Got Off the Ground 
by NATALIE ZARRELLI,
Atlas Obscura, May 03, 2017
(Dr. John Wilkins’ lunar ambitions were a little too lofty.)

Wilkins' ideas were a combination of forward-thinking scientific and technological notions and faulty speculation. His conception of space travel is outlined here. His creation of a universal language is also noted, more than once.  Here is a tidbit new to me:

' A century later, some of Wilkins’ eclectic passions were the butt of small jokes; in a 1784 letter, historian Horace Walpole wrote: “I discovered an alliance between Bishop Wilkins’s art of flying, and his plan of universal language; the latter of which he no doubt calculated to prevent the want of an interpreter when he should arrive at the moon.” '

Let me repeat a few relevant links (see my Esperanto post for non-English links):

By Wilkins:

“A Journey to the Moon Possible” [from The Discovery of a New World (1638)], in English Prose: Selections with Critical Introductions by Various Writers and General Introductions to Each Period; Vol. II. Sixteenth Century to the Restoration; edited by Henry Craik (New York: The Macmillan Company, 1916).

The Discovery of a World in the Moone: Or, A Discovrse Tending To Prove That ’Tis Probable There May Be Another Habitable World In That Planet. Printed by E.G. for Michael Sparke and Edward Forrest, 1638. 

By someone else:

Ballad of Gresham College (1663) 

Jules Verne & Esperanto (5): Jules Verne Forum

Here are updated links pertaining to Esperanto & constructed languages on the Jules Verne Forum on the site Zvi Har’El’s Jules Verne Collection:

Language of the Nautilus and her crew (16 Jan 2012)

Jules Verne News (5 Jun 2010)

80 jours: Golgonde vs Golconde (5 Dec 2009)

L'étonnante aventure de la mission Barsac (26 Nov 2008)

Esperanto translations of JV (18 Feb 2007)

Verne, Esperanto and Venezuela (16 Aug 2006)

Verne, Esperanto and Venezuela (7 Aug 2006)

Verne, Esperanto and Venezuela (7 Aug 2006)

Verne, Esperanto and Venezuela (7 Aug 2006)

nautron respoc lorni virch (28 Feb 2006)

nautron respoc lorni virch (27 Feb 2006)

Jules Verne Kantoturdo (7 Jul 2005)

Jules Verne and Esperanto (15 Jan 2003)

What about "Nautron respoc lorni virch"? (10 Dec 1997)

Note also this article on another site:

Jules Verne et l'espéranto (Article paru dans LE COURRIER DE L'OUEST 28-07-1993)

Jules Verne kaj Esperanto

. . . and these:

Esperanto and Science Fiction: Jules Verne by David Poulson

Jules Verne's Voyage of Discovery by David Poulson

Boxer, Beetle (5)

The Boxer Beetle web site has disappeared, so here is the best I can give you, from the ghost web: Boxer, Beetle. I reproduce the images below:

Artefaritaj tutslavaj lingvoj

En la senpage elŝutebla numero de Balkana Verda Stelo de la 1a septembro 2016 enestas interesa artikolo:

Artefaritaj tutslavaj lingvoj ekde 1666, nun en la reto (p. 9-12).

Atentu ankaŭ ligojn al aliaj artikoloj kaj retejoj, ekz.:

Interslavic language (plurlingva)

Slovianski - Vikipedio

Interslavic language - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Slavic Lesson 1
("simplified lesson of the best and simplest inter-slavic language")

National Museum of Language Interview with R. Dumain

Now on the blog of the National Museum of Language:

Intellect as Equipment: Interview with Ralph Dumain,
July 28, 2016
(Interview has been edited and condensed.)

See my blog entry Presentation on Esperanto at the National Museum of Language for a description and video of the presentations James Ryan and I gave on Esperanto at the National Museum of Language in College Park, Maryland, on 10 May 2014, titled Esperanto: One of the World's Best Underutilized Ideas and Its Contributions to World Culture.

The unedited text of my interview along with my 2014 presentation can be found on my web site:

National Museum of Language: Interview & presentation on Esperanto by R. Dumain