Connect with CSU Faculty
featuring Dr. Jeremy Genovese
Emeritus Associate Professor of Human Development and Educational Psychology
Presenting “ESPERANTO: The Rise and Fall and Rise of the International Language”
Tuesday, April 8, 2025
11:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
Rhodes Tower, Michael Schwartz Library
Free and open to all CSU faculty, staff, and students and the general public.
The constructed language Esperanto was invented in 1887 to facilitate international communication and understanding. Esperanto was designed to be easy to learn with phonetic pronunciation and a simple, consistent grammar. The Esperanto movement grew rapidly but suffered a severe setback in the run up to the Second World War. The language was specifically condemned by Hitler. Stalin labeled it “the language of spies.”
In recent decades, Esperanto has regained ground with the rise of the internet. Today the Esperanto movement is a growing transnational community of speakers who regularly communicate either virtually or in person.
Join us for this free event on Tuesday, April 8th
Dr. Jeremy Genovese Jeremy E. C. Genovese is an emeritus associate professor of human development and educational psychology at Cleveland State University. He has a long standing interest in utopian communities and movements and is the author of The Earth for All: Henry George, Utopian Communities and Market Socialism (McFarland). He is a member of the Communal Studies Association, a group of scholars focused on communal societies, and he has lived in several intentional communities. Dr. Genovese serves as the Great Lakes coordinator for Esperanto-USA, working to rebuild the Esperanto community in the Cleveland area.
“Connect with CSU Faculty” is a pilot project initiated by the Friends of the Library to recognize the research of Cleveland State University faculty.