Center for Research and Documentation on World Language Problems

History

Activities

• CRD supports the publication of the scholarly journal Language Problems and Language Planning.
• The organization's newsletter, Information for Interlinguists is a joint publication by the Center for Research and Documentation on World Language Problems and the Esperantic Studies Foundation. It focuses on interlinguistics and is published three times a year in English and Esperanto.
• An Annual Bibliography of publications on Esperanto studies and interlinguistics is published as part of a much larger reference work by the US-based Modern Language Association.
• Esperanto-studies Conferences are part of the annual World Esperanto Congresses.
• Nitobe Symposia on language policy are organized, as are other specialist conferences and seminars, for example at the United Nations. From the Nitobe symposia emerged the Nitobe Centre for Language Democracy which "raises questions about international communication and egalitarian language policy."
• CRD also works with the program at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, Poland, which offers a 3-year distance diploma program in Interlinguistics. The program, with an international faculty and student body, focuses on international and intercultural communication, planned languages, and Esperanto. In 2008-9, the program celebrated its 10th year.
• From 1982 to 1996, together with the United Nations Office of Conference Services, CRD organized an annual conference in New York City. For most of the early years CRD published annual conference reports, with all papers given at the conference in question. The Center now publishes, in cooperation with University Press of America, a series of monographs which includes selected papers from the conferences.