President Humphrey Tonkin University of Hartford Vice-Presidents Grant Goodall University of California, San Diego Esperantic Studies Foundation

Mark Fettes Simon Fraser University Annual Report for 2010 Secretary Bonnie Fonseca-Greber University of Louisville Treasurer Wallace G. Du Temple Table of contents Other Directors Timothy Reagan Central Connecticut State University

PRESIDENT’S LETTER 2 Derek Roff University of New Mexico

Geoffrey Greatrex PROJECTS & ACTIVITIES 4 University of Ottawa

Advisory Board EDUCATION 4 Jonathan Pool lernu! (www.lernu.net) 4 Utilika Foundation David K. Jordan SES (www.lernu.net/ses) 4 University of California, Lingvohelpilo (lingvohelpilo.ikso.net) 5 San Diego Ian M. Richmond (ret.) edukado.net (www.edukado.net) 5 Université Sainte-Anne NASK (North American Esperanto Institute) (www.esperanto.org/nask) 6 John Edwards St Francis Xavier Esperanto Aktuale (aktuale.info) 6 University 6 Alvino Fantini Interlinguistics Certificate Program School for International Springboard to Languages Project 7 Training François Grin Documentary Film Project 7 University of Geneva INTERLINGUAL RESEARCH 7 Duncan Charters Principia College Interlinguistics Support Fund 7 Klaus Schubert Research Awards 8

Universität Hildesheim Nancy Schweda-Nicholson Conferences 8 University of Delaware Information for Interlinguists 9 Probal Dasgupta Indian Statistical Institute OPERATIONS 9

Katalin Kovats Edukado.net APPENDIX : THE FOUNDATION’S ADVISORY BOARD 11

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Registered Office 1015 15th Street, NW Suite 1000 Washington, D.C. 20005 U.S.A.

Administrative Office COP Ste. Catherine CP 60502 Montréal QC H1V 3T8 Canada [email protected]

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President Humphrey Tonkin University of Hartford Vice-Presidents Grant Goodall President’s letter University of California, San Diego

Mark Fettes Simon Fraser University Finding Direction Secretary Bonnie Fonseca-Greber University of Louisville Treasurer In our report for the past calendar year, we characterized 2009 as a year of choices – Wallace G. Du Temple mostly, hard choices brought on by the need to reduce spending to match a diminished Other Directors Timothy Reagan portfolio. Whereas in previous years we had been able to fund new initiatives, we were Central Connecticut State University obliged to limit our expenditures largely to the support of ongoing projects. A casualty

Derek Roff of this decision was our research program, because it largely underwrote grants of University of New Mexico

short duration, whose funding was routinely recycled to support new grants each year. Geoffrey Greatrex University of Ottawa

Unfortunately we had to shift most of these resources elsewhere. We also had to limit

Advisory Board our participation in, and organization of, conferences and special events. Jonathan Pool Utilika Foundation David K. Jordan In the year 2010 we were able to stabilize the Foundation and begin to think once again University of California, San Diego about expanding our efforts in the future. We continued to make an annual grant to Ian M. Richmond (ret.) the Center for Research and Documentation on World Language Problems (CED), Université Sainte-Anne John Edwards publisher of record for the journal Language Problems and Language Planning, and the St Francis Xavier University center in turn made small grants to support research and publication. We also Alvino Fantini School for International participated in a number of conferences and organized one or two events of our own. Training More such activity will become possible when our efforts to generate new forms of François Grin University of Geneva revenue begin to bear fruit and make us less dependent on income from endowment. Duncan Charters Principia College Our overall objectives remain the same. They include: (1) improving the visibility and Klaus Schubert Universität Hildesheim prestige of Esperanto as a research topic and teaching subject, (2) focusing attention Nancy Schweda-Nicholson University of Delaware and academic resources on the study of Esperanto and of interlingual communication Probal Dasgupta Indian Statistical Institute generally, (3) establishing an intellectual community of teachers and researchers in

Katalin Kovats higher education committed to the above goals, and (4) improving and expanding the Edukado.net

Ghuzal Badamshina operational capacity of the foundation itself. Each of these objectives was addressed in Author, Scholar

a number of ways in the course of the year: Registered Office 1015 15th Street, NW (1) Improving the visibility and prestige of Esperanto as a research topic and teaching Suite 1000 Washington, D.C. 20005 subject. The Foundation helped support participation in the annual Louisville U.S.A. Conference on Literature and Culture Since 1900, organizing a session on Esperanto Administrative Office literature and culture. As already noted, the Foundation continues to underwrite the COP Ste. Catherine CP 60502 CED Research Fund, which provides small grants to scholars and researchers. It also Montréal QC H1V 3T8 Canada provides funding for edukado.net, a web‐based community of educators in and on [email protected]

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President Humphrey Tonkin University of Hartford Esperanto, which houses a wide variety of materials and resources to assist in the Vice-Presidents teaching of Esperanto. Grant Goodall University of California, San Diego (2) Focusing attention and academic resources on the study of Esperanto and of

Mark Fettes interlingual communication generally. The foundation supports the annual North Simon Fraser University American Summer Esperanto Institute (NASK) at the University of California San Secretary Bonnie Fonseca-Greber Diego which in 2010 reached its forty‐first year. It also supports web‐based learning University of Louisville initiatives such as Lernu.net. The ongoing support of ESF has allowed lernu.net not Treasurer Wallace G. Du Temple only to attract a considerable following (in terms of sheer numbers, it is now the most Other Directors populous Esperanto activity in the world) but also to establish itself as an Esperanto‐ Timothy Reagan Central Connecticut State based networking site, and, increasingly, to generate its own resources. University

Derek Roff (3) Establishing an intellectual community of teachers and researchers in higher University of New Mexico

Geoffrey Greatrex education committed to the above goals. The participation of ESF in the Louisville University of Ottawa

Conference (see above) helped raise the visibility of the Foundation in scholarly circles,

Advisory Board as did ESF’s support for a panel at the Economic Forum in Krynica (Poland) in Jonathan Pool Utilika Foundation September, and its hosting of the Informilo por Interlingvistoj (Information for David K. Jordan University of California, Interlinguists, IfI) on its website. The Foundation has also created a list of Esperanto‐ San Diego Ian M. Richmond (ret.) speaking academics in North America and is increasingly using its website to report on Université Sainte-Anne John Edwards new activities of interest to this constituency. St Francis Xavier University (4) Improving and expanding the operational capacity of the foundation itself. With Alvino Fantini School for International a new administrator, Joel Amis, in place (see below), with lernu.net having reached a Training François Grin turning point in its development, with edukado.net having achieved a measure of University of Geneva independence, and with NASK about to embark on a new curriculum and structure, Duncan Charters Principia College the Foundation is now considering a new stage in its development, with more Klaus Schubert

Universität Hildesheim emphasis on its own operations (directed at creating services designed to grow the Nancy Schweda-Nicholson University of Delaware Esperanto movement as a whole and afford new opportunities for research and Probal Dasgupta teaching) and somewhat less emphasis on traditional grant‐making. These new Indian Statistical Institute

Katalin Kovats initiatives will form the central element in its planning efforts in the year 2011. Edukado.net

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President Humphrey Tonkin University of Hartford Vice-Presidents Grant Goodall PROJECTS & ACTIVITIES University of California, San Diego

Mark Fettes Simon Fraser University Secretary EDUCATION Bonnie Fonseca-Greber University of Louisville Treasurer Wallace G. Du Temple Other Directors lernu! (www.lernu.net) Timothy Reagan Multi‐year support of this free, web‐based language‐learning environment has helped make it Central Connecticut State University the largest and most successful community of Esperanto learners. With some 95,000 registered

Derek Roff users as of the end of 2010, it is expected to surpass 100,000 registered users in May‐June, 2011. University of New Mexico

The website’s team is planning a competition and an advertisement campaign to mark this Geoffrey Greatrex University of Ottawa

unique event. In an average week, sign‐ins average between 7000 and 8000, while page visits

Advisory Board total some 100,000 daily, by approximately 6000 visitors. At Lernu.net, one may find information Jonathan Pool Utilika Foundation about Esperanto in 36 languages. The website’s team includes about 200 volunteer assistants David K. Jordan who provide translations, language tutoring to the students, improve the dictionary, contribute University of California, San Diego content, as well as provide programming, making sure the website works smoothly. In addition Ian M. Richmond (ret.) to the language courses and instructional material (such as grammar exercises, tests and exams), Université Sainte-Anne John Edwards the site provides an opportunity to practically use Esperanto by exchanging private messages St Francis Xavier University with other users, or communicating via chats and forums. The creators of the website organize Alvino Fantini an annual “live” meeting in Europe (see below). School for International Training Following several years of rapid development, the site has undergone only minor updates and François Grin University of Geneva additions in 2009‐2010. There is a clear need for ongoing investment and coordination. New Duncan Charters Principia College technologies, such as the grammar checker Lingvohelpilo (see below), are making it possible to Klaus Schubert extend the site’s functionality into new areas. While the community and its activities continue to

Universität Hildesheim Nancy Schweda-Nicholson expand, maintenance and redesign require constant attention. Fortunately, E@I, the organization University of Delaware that operates the site, also has experience in the design of other language‐teaching sites. Probal Dasgupta Indian Statistical Institute

Katalin Kovats Edukado.net SES (www.lernu.net/ses) Ghuzal Badamshina Author, Scholar rd In 2010, there took place yet another successful convention of creators and users of lernu!: 3

session of Summer Esperanto Studies (SES) in Piešťany (Slovakia), with 190 participants. SES Registered Office 1015 15th Street, NW 2011 will take place in July‐August in Nitra, Slovakia, and various educational activities are Suite 1000 Washington, D.C. 20005 planned: classes, exams, etc., as well as a meeting dedicated to the technical aspects of the U.S.A. website, such as translation.

Administrative Office COP Ste. Catherine CP 60502 Montréal QC H1V 3T8 Canada [email protected]

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President Humphrey Tonkin University of Hartford Vice-Presidents Lingvohelpilo (lingvohelpilo.ikso.net) Grant Goodall University of California, An innovative technology project supported by ESF took a significant step toward completion in San Diego 2010. More than two years of research and development led by Danish computational linguist Mark Fettes Simon Fraser University Eckhard Bick, in collaboration with members of E@I including and Sonja Secretary Petrović Lundberg, culminated in the beta testing phase of an automated Esperanto grammar Bonnie Fonseca-Greber University of Louisville checker, Lingvohelpilo. The software will not only check texts for possible errors, but will also Treasurer suggest solutions and provide explanations for grammar choices. The project was inspired by the Wallace G. Du Temple needs of Lernu learners and language tutors, and was developed on the basis of extensive corpus Other Directors analysis and Wennergrenʹs prior work on a concise modern grammar of Esperanto for Lernu. As Timothy Reagan Central Connecticut State a next step, the intention is to integrate Lingvohelpilo with the language tutor interface in Lernu, University

and to collect data on typical learner errors to enable its ongoing refinement. Derek Roff University of New Mexico

Geoffrey Greatrex University of Ottawa (www.edukado.net) edukado.net

Advisory Board Edukado.net, an initiative of ESF, was developed as a global instructional resource site for Jonathan Pool Utilika Foundation teachers and learners of Esperanto. The site is now in its third iteration, having been recently David K. Jordan redesigned and reconstructed (by Yevgeniy Gaus) with the aid of financial contributions from University of California, San Diego users. ESF funding has assisted in editorial work and in the compilation of data for new Ian M. Richmond (ret.) elements, among them a bibliography of dissertations relating to Esperanto and interlinguistics. Université Sainte-Anne John Edwards An international team of educators and programmers has expanded edukado.net to include an St Francis Xavier University interactive catalog of approx. 450 publications related to the teaching of Esperanto, and a Alvino Fantini database of more than 700 downloadable resources (for example, different types of exercises at School for International Training various language skill levels, tests, and sound files) contributed by participating educators. François Grin Appropriate items can be found rapidly by the use of a set of search functions. Over the past University of Geneva Duncan Charters four years, material from the exercises has been downloaded over 200,000 times. Principia College

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Universität Hildesheim The site’s “reading room” contains a rich collection of articles related to pedagogy and teaching Nancy Schweda-Nicholson University of Delaware methods. Edukado.net also includes a calendar of courses, a list of schools where Esperanto is Probal Dasgupta taught, and a “workshop” where colleagues can exchange ideas, course materials, and lesson Indian Statistical Institute

Katalin Kovats plans. The correspondence service is also popular for those seeking contacts with Esperanto Edukado.net speakers from other countries and/or cultures. There is a notice board, a discussion forum, and a Ghuzal Badamshina Author, Scholar service for providing responses to questions about methodology or grammar.

Registered Office 1015 15th Street, NW In April 2011, edukado.net will launch RITE (http://edukado.net/rite), a collection of on‐line Suite 1000 course material consisting of 100 study units in seven broad fields. Its goal is to improve teaching Washington, D.C. 20005 U.S.A. methodology using both pre‐programmed material and also the active support of experts in the

field through distance learning. Edukado.net cooperates with the Universal Esperanto Administrative Office COP Ste. Catherine Association and has become the designated agent for the conducting of of examinations using CP 60502 Montréal QC H1V 3T8 the Common European Framework of Reference (http://edukado.net/ekzamenoj/ker). Canada [email protected] Edukado.net has a 2000‐member “community” whose participants (from more than 100

countries) can request notification about newly published materials, maintaining current Website www.esperantic.org 5

President Humphrey Tonkin University of Hartford knowledge of available resources. At international meetings and congresses the team of Vice-Presidents edukado.net regularly teaches popular language courses at various levels. Dr. Katalin Kováts, a Grant Goodall University of California, native of Hungary resident in the Netherlands, directs the site. San Diego

Mark Fettes Between October and December 2010, the site had 22,199 visits from 129 countries. France, Simon Fraser University Brazil, Hungary and Poland occupied the leading position. Visitors visited 19,963 pages 154,166 Secretary Bonnie Fonseca-Greber times. University of Louisville

Treasurer Wallace G. Du Temple Other Directors NASK (North American Esperanto Institute) (www.esperanto.org/nask) Timothy Reagan Central Connecticut State ESF has been supporting this unique 3‐week immersion program since 1998 and it has become a University core educational priority for the foundation. NASK’s 2010 session took place in July at the

Derek Roff University of New Mexico University of California San Diego – the fourth year of its return to the West Coast after several

Geoffrey Greatrex years in Brattleboro, Vermont. The NASK program is an example of an educational project that University of Ottawa

supports the improvement of the teaching and learning of Esperanto, with a specific North

Advisory Board American focus. In 2011 the format of NASK will change. Instead of the usual three week Jonathan Pool Utilika Foundation duration, NASK will offer a short seven day intensive Esperanto course. This change was made David K. Jordan in order to accommodate students unable to participate in a longer session. University of California, San Diego Ian M. Richmond (ret.) Université Sainte-Anne aktuale.info John Edwards Esperanto Aktuale ( ) St Francis Xavier University Alvino Fantini To assist in the development of a comprehensive website on all aspects of Esperanto and its School for International Training context, the foundation has provided support to the E@I team , which is developing the site. François Grin Esperanto Aktuale is intended to be a multilingual information portal about Esperanto and the University of Geneva Duncan Charters global Esperanto movement. The website will focus on providing news and information to the Principia College non‐Esperanto public. The conceptual design and building of the website continued throughout Klaus Schubert

Universität Hildesheim 2010. Aktuale.info will be fully integrated and compatible with Lernu.net. Progress on this project Nancy Schweda-Nicholson is documented on the Aktuale Wiki at http://aktuale.info/. Its launch is planned for 2011. University of Delaware Probal Dasgupta Indian Statistical Institute

Katalin Kovats Interlinguistics Certificate Program Edukado.net

Ghuzal Badamshina Reports on individual sessions at: Author, Scholar Feb. 2010: http://www.staff.amu.edu.pl/~interl/raportoj/r2010feb.html

Sept. 2010: http://edukado.net/novajhoj?id=53 Registered Office 1015 15th Street, NW Jan. 2011: http://edukado.net/novajhoj?id=100 Suite 1000 Washington, D.C. 20005 U.S.A. ESF continued to provide scholarship support for students enrolled in the Interlinguistics certificate program at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan, Poland. Now in its twelfth year, Administrative Office COP Ste. Catherine the two‐year non‐residential program involves short, intensive study sessions twice yearly. CP 60502 Montréal QC H1V 3T8 Canada [email protected]

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President Humphrey Tonkin University of Hartford Vice-Presidents Springboard to Languages Project Grant Goodall University of California, San Diego The Springboard to Languages Project is an effort to introduce Esperanto in selected primary Mark Fettes Simon Fraser University schools in the UK as part of the country’s new language policy. An important component of the Secretary project is the evaluation of students’ language learning, with an emphasis on the propedeutic Bonnie Fonseca-Greber effects of Esperanto language study preceding French language study. ESF provided a final grant University of Louisville Treasurer to the project in 2010. Wallace G. Du Temple Other Directors Documentary Film Project Timothy Reagan Central Connecticut State University

In 2006 ESF agreed to provide limited funding to support a documentary film project on Derek Roff University of New Mexico Esperanto produced by Sam Green, whose earlier documentary The Weather Underground was

Geoffrey Greatrex nominated for an Academy Award. A second grant was awarded in 2007. Mr. Green and his University of Ottawa

team visited the 2006 in Florence and the 2007 Congress in Advisory Board Yokohama. Utopia in Four Movements, the first of two planned documentaries, premiered at the Jonathan Pool Utilika Foundation Sundance Film Festival and was very well received. The second documentary is now in the final David K. Jordan University of California, editing phase and was presented in preliminary form at a symposium in New York on December San Diego 15, 2010 (see below). Ian M. Richmond (ret.) Université Sainte-Anne John Edwards St Francis Xavier University INTERLINGUAL RESEARCH Alvino Fantini School for International Training François Grin Interlinguistics Support Fund University of Geneva Duncan Charters Principia College This fund was established, under the leadership of Detlev Blanke (Germany), in 2007 to support Klaus Schubert

Universität Hildesheim small grants for publications, conferences, and similar activities. The sum of $7,000 was Nancy Schweda-Nicholson approved for this fund in 2010. Proposals are reviewed and recommended by a three‐person University of Delaware Probal Dasgupta committee consisting of Dr. Blanke, Dr. Christer Kiselman (Sweden) and Mr. Osmo Buller Indian Statistical Institute (Netherlands). A grant in 2008 to Alexander Korzhenkov (Russia) for his biography of Zamenhof Katalin Kovats Edukado.net helped bring about its publication in 2009, to much critical acclaim. ESF has continued to take an

Ghuzal Badamshina Author, Scholar interest in the biography, and an abridged English‐language version, translated by former ESF

board member Ian Richmond, appeared in New York in 2010, published by Mondial. The Registered Office translation can also be read on the ESF website at 1015 15th Street, NW Suite 1000 http://www.esperantic.org/en/communications/articles. Grants made in 2010 were as follows: Washington, D.C. 20005 U.S.A. • Support for publication of essay collection by Karl‐Hermann Simon on forestry Administrative Office COP Ste. Catherine terminology. CP 60502 • Support for publication of second edition of the biography of Zamenhof by Alexander Montréal QC H1V 3T8 Canada Korzhenkov. [email protected] • Support of project for the analysis of Zamenhof’s address collections of early Esperantists, by Marek Blahuš (to be presented at the 34th Esperantological Conference Website www.esperantic.org 7

President Humphrey Tonkin University of Hartford in Copenhagen during the World Esperanto Congress, 2011, as well as published in Vice-Presidents paper form) Grant Goodall University of California, • Support for CDELI, the Center for Documentation and Research on International San Diego Languages, La Chaux‐de‐Fonds, Switzerland Mark Fettes • Support of Esperanto‐Gesellschaft Südharz for a computerized Esperanto Platform in Simon Fraser University the Herzberg Public Museum, Herzberg, Germany. Secretary Bonnie Fonseca-Greber University of Louisville Treasurer Research Awards Wallace G. Du Temple Other Directors (1) In 2008 the Foundation provided a grant to the Center for Comparative Literature and Society Timothy Reagan at Columbia University for a residency by Afrikaans poet Antjie Krog in connection with the Central Connecticut State University Center’s interest in translation. Shortly before her return to South Africa, Ms. Krog, along with

Derek Roff Rosalind Morris (anthropology, Columbia) and Humphrey Tonkin, participated in a recorded University of New Mexico

conversation on the South African language situation that subsequently appeared in the volume

Geoffrey Greatrex The Translator as Mediator (ed. Humphrey Tonkin and Maria Esposito Frank), a volume in the University of Ottawa

series Studies in World Language Problems, published in 2010 (Amsterdam: Benjamins). Much Advisory Board of the rest of the material in this volume resulted from an earlier ESF grant to the University of Jonathan Pool Utilika Foundation Hartford for a symposium on translation. More info: http://www.benjamins.com/cgi- David K. Jordan bin/t_articles.cgi?bookid=WLP%203&artid=557138446 University of California, (2) Nancy Schweda Nicholson (University of Delaware), having completed work on her project San Diego Ian M. Richmond (ret.) on interpretation at the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia in The Hague, Université Sainte-Anne John Edwards published some of its findings in The Translator as Mediator (see above). St Francis Xavier (3) The Foundation provided partial funding for research connected with a project for translating University Alvino Fantini children’s books into Bengali and several European languages, using Esperanto as a bridge. School for International Training Project leaders Probal Dasgupta, Spomenka Štimec, and Zlatko Tišljar completed the project François Grin early in 2010. Probal Dasgupta is in the process of publishing several articles derived from his University of Geneva Duncan Charters work on the project. Principia College Klaus Schubert

Universität Hildesheim Conferences Nancy Schweda-Nicholson University of Delaware Probal Dasgupta (1) In February, ESF organized a panel on Esperanto at the Louisville Conference on Literature Indian Statistical Institute

Katalin Kovats and Culture Since 1900. For the 2011 conference this participation will extend not only to a Edukado.net special session on Esperanto literature but also to a two‐day seminar on that topic in the days Ghuzal Badamshina Author, Scholar following the conference.

(2) ESF continues to fund an award presented at the annual conference of CALICO (Computer‐ Registered Office 1015 15th Street, NW Assisted Language Instruction). Suite 1000 (3) ESF provided support to the European Esperanto Union for a panel at the Economic Forum in Washington, D.C. 20005 U.S.A. Krynica, Poland.

(4) A grant from the Foundation supported “From Zamenhof to Soros,” a symposium organized Administrative Office COP Ste. Catherine by the New York Office of the Universal Esperanto Association. The symposium provided a CP 60502 Montréal QC H1V 3T8 historical overview of the beginning period of Esperanto, organized in order to recognize the Canada publication of two new books: the English language biography of Zamenhof (see above) and a [email protected] newly translated book by Tivadar Soros, Crusoes in Siberia, originally published in 1923. Speakers

included Esther Schor (Princeton University) on “Zamenhof and the Future,” historian Ralph Website www.esperantic.org 8

President Humphrey Tonkin University of Hartford Dumain on the 1910 World Congress of Esperanto in Washington, and Humphrey Tonkin, the Vice-Presidents translator of the Soros book and editor of the Zamenhof biography. The film maker Sam Green Grant Goodall University of California, showed a draft version of his documentary about Esperanto. The new, 25‐minute, film is mainly San Diego a product of filming he did during several recent World Esperanto Congresses, with support Mark Fettes from ESF. But the biggest surprise was the speech (not included in the announced symposium Simon Fraser University program) of financier George Soros, son of Tivadar Soros. George Soros and his brother Paul Secretary Bonnie Fonseca-Greber contributed a foreword to the new translation. About 70 people participated in the symposium: University of Louisville Esperantists, representatives of NGO’s, UN officials, diplomats, journalists and scholars. Treasurer Wallace G. Du Temple (5) ESF was a sponsor of the Conference on the Application of Esperanto in Science and Other Directors Technology (KAEST) that was held on November 18‐21 in Modra‐Harmónia (Slovakia) and Timothy Reagan gathered 52 specialists from 15 countries. The topic of the Conference was “Modern technologies Central Connecticut State University for Esperanto.” The program consisted of around thirty presentations on such topics as

Derek Roff terminology, spellchecking and automated translation, corpora, Wikipedias, internet dictionaries University of New Mexico

etc. Geoffrey Greatrex University of Ottawa (6) The Foundation provided support for a symposium on language inequality in the sciences

Advisory Board and science teaching to be held at the University of Copenhagen in July 2011. Jonathan Pool Utilika Foundation David K. Jordan University of California, San Diego Newsletter Information for Interlinguists Ian M. Richmond (ret.) Université Sainte-Anne The Foundation continues to support publication of the hardcopy version of the newsletter John Edwards Information for Interlinguists (IfI) – Informilo por Interlingvistoj, published by CED under the St Francis Xavier University editorship of Detlev Blanke (a web version appears on the ESF web pages: Alvino Fantini School for International http://www.esperantic.org/en/communications/ipi/archive). Training François Grin University of Geneva Duncan Charters Principia College Klaus Schubert OPERATIONS

Universität Hildesheim Nancy Schweda-Nicholson University of Delaware Administration Probal Dasgupta Indian Statistical Institute In the fall, our administrator of many years, Jason Clark, resigned his position and was replaced

Katalin Kovats by Joel Amis, whose administrative skills include activity in various Esperanto organizations in Edukado.net

Ghuzal Badamshina the United States and internationally. Joel Amis has recently taken up residence in Montreal, Author, Scholar and so the office function of ESF has moved there from Vancouver. Joel and his wife Yevgeniya

(also a skilled Esperanto speaker) have had a significantly positive effect on the administrative Registered Office 1015 15th Street, NW responsiveness of the Foundation and have led to improvements also in the website. Suite 1000 Washington, D.C. 20005 U.S.A. The Board Administrative Office At the beginning of the year, board membership consisted of Wallace du Temple, Mark Fettes (V. COP Ste. Catherine P.), Geoffrey Greatrex, Bonnie Fonseca-Greber (Sec.), Grant Goodall (V. P), Timothy Reagan, CP 60502 Montréal QC H1V 3T8 Derek Roff, and Humphrey Tonkin (Pres.). Canada [email protected]

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President Humphrey Tonkin University of Hartford Operations Committee Vice-Presidents An Operations Committee was established by Board action in May 2008, and is in telephone Grant Goodall contact on a regular weekly basis with Joel Amis, who administers the finances of the foundation University of California, San Diego and conducts other administrative business. He, in turn, works closely with the foundation’s

Mark Fettes Treasurer, Wallace du Temple, to manage accounts payable and receivable and the Simon Fraser University organization’s financial reporting requirements. The current membership of the Operations Secretary Committee is Wallace DuTemple, Mark Fettes, Derek Roff, and Humphrey Tonkin. Bonnie Fonseca-Greber University of Louisville Treasurer Finance and Administration Wallace G. Du Temple (1) At the end of 2009 and beginning of 2010, management of the Foundation’s portfolio was Other Directors moved from S. R. Schill and Associates (Seattle) to the more conveniently located TD Waterhouse Timothy Reagan (Vancouver). A similar process is underway to transfer the Foundation’s banking from Seattle to Central Connecticut State University Victoria, BC, for similar reasons.

Derek Roff (2) The Foundation has adopted a new formal spending policy, which guided it in building the University of New Mexico

budget for 2010. This policy calls for a gradual reduction in the percentage of Foundation

Geoffrey Greatrex University of Ottawa resources expended in a given year. It will remain in place until the Board judges that spending

is once again well within the means of the Foundation, at which point the percentage will remain Advisory Board Jonathan Pool constant unless changed by Board action. Utilika Foundation David K. Jordan University of California, Advisory Board San Diego An advisory board provides occasional advice and counsel on the work of the Foundation. In Ian M. Richmond (ret.) Université Sainte-Anne 2010 membership remained the same, except that Dr. Ghuzal Badamshina (Washington, DC) was John Edwards added to its membership. St Francis Xavier University Alvino Fantini Prospects School for International Training In 2009 the Foundation took many of the steps needed to live within the somewhat straitened François Grin circumstances in which it found itself: it reorganized its portfolio management and banking University of Geneva arrangements to make them more responsive to the Foundation’s needs, it strengthened its Duncan Charters Principia College board, it introduced much tighter spending and budgeting procedures, and it began an effort to Klaus Schubert augment its resources by new gifts and contributions. The Foundation continues to strive to

Universität Hildesheim Nancy Schweda-Nicholson become better known and more transparent in its operations. ESF remains one of the very few University of Delaware organizations providing material support for the study of Esperanto, interlinguistics, and related Probal Dasgupta Indian Statistical Institute fields. It continues to play a vital role in the promotion of research and teaching.

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President Humphrey Tonkin University of Hartford Vice-Presidents Grant Goodall Appendix : The Foundation’s Advisory Board University of California, San Diego Ghuzal Badamshina, Ph.D. Independent Scholar, Author. Areas of Interest: multimedia non- Mark Fettes Simon Fraser University fiction narratives; latest neuroscience findings in multilinguality and human translation processes; nomadism in its current practices and forms; cultural diplomacy, science diplomacy; Secretary Bonnie Fonseca-Greber the diverse phenomena of jazz influences beyond the music idiom. University of Louisville Treasurer Duncan Charters, Ph.D. Professor of Foreign Languages, Principia College. Areas of interest: Wallace G. Du Temple Spanish language and literature, teaching culture and listening comprehension, developing Other Directors proficiency in language skills, and using technology in teaching. Timothy Reagan Central Connecticut State Probal Dasgupta, Ph.D. Professor of Linguistics, Indian Statistical Institute; President, Universal University

Esperanto Association. Derek Roff University of New Mexico

John Edwards, Ph.D. Professor of Psychology, St. Francis Xavier University. Areas of interest: Geoffrey Greatrex University of Ottawa social psychology of language; language and group identity.

Advisory Board Alvino Fantini, Professor Emeritus of Applied Linguistics, SIT Graduate Institute, Brattleboro, Jonathan Pool Utilika Foundation Vermont. Areas of interest: language education, intercultural communication. David K. Jordan University of California, François Grin, Ph.D. Professor of Economics, University of Geneva, Switzerland. Areas of San Diego interest: language economics, education economics and policy evaluation in these areas. Ian M. Richmond (ret.) Université Sainte-Anne John Edwards David K. Jordan, Ph.D. Professor Emeritus of Anthropology, University of California San Diego. St Francis Xavier University His academic interests center in cultural and psychological anthropology, sociolinguistics, and Alvino Fantini the cross-cultural study of religion. Regional interests focus on Chinese society, especially in School for International Taiwan, with a secondary interest in pre-Columbian Mexico. Training François Grin University of Geneva Katalin Kovats, Ph.D. Language educator, director of the program edukado.net, holds a Duncan Charters doctorate in Esperanto and applied linguistics from Eötvos Lórand University, Budapest, and Principia College now lives in the Netherlands. Klaus Schubert Universität Hildesheim Nancy Schweda-Nicholson Jonathan Pool, Ph.D. President of Utilika Foundation & Co-Founder of ESF. Areas of interest: University of Delaware universal interactivity; obstacles to human-human, human-machine and machine-mediated Probal Dasgupta human communication and collaboration arising from the diversity and limitations of languages. Indian Statistical Institute

Katalin Kovats Edukado.net Ian Richmond, Ph.D. Professor Emeritus, Université Sainte-Anne. Areas of interest: second

Ghuzal Badamshina language learning, computer-assisted language learning, literary studies, translation. Author, Scholar

Klaus Schubert, Ph.D. Professor at Universität Hildesheim, Germany; specializes in preparation Registered Office of technical translators and specialists in international communication. Particular interest in 1015 15th Street, NW technical translation and machine translation. Suite 1000 Washington, D.C. 20005 U.S.A. Nancy Schweda Nicholson, Ph.D. Professor, Dept. of Linguistics & Cognitive Science, University

of Delaware. Areas of interest: sociolinguistics, language planning, language and the law, court Administrative Office interpretation, interpretation theory and practice. COP Ste. Catherine CP 60502 Montréal QC H1V 3T8 Canada [email protected]

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