Romance, German & Slavic Languages & Literatures at GW

Join us this Friday as Dr. Yomaira Figueroa Vásquez shares part of her ongoing research addressing the precarity of archival material related to Black Puerto Rican communities. https://rgsll-figueroa.eventbrite.com

Happening now in Phillips 511! Come practice your Spanish at the Spanish Language Café! All are welcome.

¿Hablas español? Come to the Spanish Language Café today at 5pm in Phillips Hall 511 for a chance to practice your Spanish with fellow hispanohablantes! All are welcome. #hispanohablantes #spanish #languagepractice #rgsll #gwrgsll

Please join us on Friday, September 30 at 12pm in The Smith Hall of Art 120 for the launch and discussion of the latest book by , "Choreographing Mexico: Festive Performances and Dancing Histories of a Nation"!

Please join us on Friday, September 30 at 12pm in The Smith Hall of Art 120 for the launch and discussion of the latest book by @profcuellar, "Choreographing Mexico: Festive Performances and Dancing Histories of a Nation"! #gwu #rgsll #booklaunch #dancing #mexico #choreographingmexico

https://www.gwnashmancenter.org/the-nashman-faculty-update/2019/4/15/faculty-spotlight-manuel-cuellar

Faculty Spotlight: Manuel Cuellar Nana Evison, a scholar at the Nashman Center, spoke with Dr. Manuel Cuellar, one of our Nashman Affiliated Faculty about his Community-Engaged Scholarship. You can learn more about Nashman Affiliates here . Dr. Cuellar is an Assistant Professor of Spanish and Latin American Literatures and Cultur

Santa's Visit to RGSLL

With the help of the faculty and staff RGSLL was able to grant the wish of a record breaking ten children this year. All were a part of the Give-A-Gift program through The Honey W. Nashman Center for Civic Engagement and Public Service. They received everything plus on their wish lists. They all received coats, snow pants, boots or shoes, 1-3 outfits, books, educational and fun toys and/or art supplies. We even gifted an unborn baby a playpen and walker and another baby a walking activity center and a convertible bouncer/chair. The Nashman Center/GW sponsored 500 families in this effort at the total of over $40,000. Check out the pics of the RGSLL donation and the compilation of the $40,000 effort by GW student, staff and faculty.

Happy Holidays!

http://harvardreview.org/?q=features%2Fomniglots%2Fsomeone-takes-wing-poems-abdourahman-waberi

someone takes wing: Poems by Abdourahman Waberi | Harvard Review Online Abdourahman A. Waberi is a prize-winning poet, novelist, short story writer, and critic born in Djibouti, a tiny country in the Horn of Africa about the size of Massachusetts, squeezed between Somalia, Ethiopia, and Eritrea. Muslim by birth, Waberi’s themes include living a simple life based on medi...

In the wake of recent political events before, during, and after the US presidential elections, the status and safety of many communities have become imperiled, including undocumented immigrants, Muslims, Jews, veterans, young people protected by DACA, people of color, people with disabilities, women, LGBTQIA people, and survivors of sexual assault.

GW Spanish reaffirms its commitment to programming and courses that recognize and respect the experiences of all human beings, particularly those reflected by the students we teach and the histories of the peoples we study across time and space. As part of the RGSLL Department at GW, we will continue to address critically, historically, and respectfully the experiences of immigrant, Afro-descendants, Muslim, Jewish and other religious groups, indigenous, disabled and LGBTQIA communities and experiences. We will also continue to provide a space to think critically about the impact of climate change and celebrate the linguistic, ethnic, racial, class, sexual, and gender diversity of the languages, cultures, and peoples we teach and study as a languages, literatures and cultures department.

As a Humanities department, we also express our solidarity with the victims of recent attacks and encourage our fellow students, faculty, administrative personnel, and alumni to join GW's President Knapp’s call, "to continue to respect our differences, maintain civility and celebrate our diversity," both in and out of the classroom.

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How to Insert Stress Marks

Both methods require several steps to set up. But once you're done, everything works easily. The following description installs both methods onto your computer.

1. Download and install the VremyaAccent fonts and the Word macro installer. (Right-click and save as...) There are four fonts (vremya1.ttf, vremya2.ttf, vremya3.ttf, and vremya1.ttf) – all packaged into an accent installer zip file. The zip file also contains the Word macro installer. Download this file to any folder on your computer. Then unzip the fonts (but not the macro installer) to c:\windows\fonts\ folder.

2. Unzip the macro installer (stressmark-installer.doc) to any directory where you keep Word files.

3. Open the macro installer (stressmark-installer.doc) in Word. Word (and perhaps additional anti-virus add-on programs such as Norton and Zone Alarm) are likely to try to deny you access to this file or the macros in it. You may have to temporarily reset the security level on these program to Low for these operations. Or it may be that the program will warn you about the dangers of macros and then let you open them anyway if you choose.

4. With stressmark-installer.doc on the screen, go to Tools, Macro, Macros, Organizer. That will produce the following menu:

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5. As shown, highlight the two macros in "Document 1" and copy them to "Normal.dot".

6. Assign each macro to a shortcut key. In this example, I assign VremyaAccent to the Ctrl-q key. In Word, go to Tools, Customize. That will produce the screen shown at the left. Immediately hit "Keyboard. "You will now see the "Customize Keyboard" screen shown at the right. Scroll down the categories list. Highlight the macro you want to add a keyboard shortcut to (in this case, Normal.Vremya.Accent.main). Now place the cursor in "Press New Shortcut key" and press the keystroke you want (in this example, I hold down the Ctrl key and press "q". You'll see the dialog box confirm your choice. Now press "Assign." Then press close.

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7. To use the macro type a few words in Russian. For example, type xaoc. Then place the cursor immediate after the a and press Ctrl-q. The accent mark will appear over the a. When you use VremyaAccent, the actual letter a will look fat and ugly on the screen, but it will print normally.

8. Tip for working with Method 2 (Native Stress Marks): Let Word use its native accent marks for all non-exclusive Cyrillic characters (а, е, o, y) and save the CyrAccent stresses for the exclusively Cyrillic characters. It will make your text look neater both on screen and in print. To access Word's native accented characters for a, e, o, y, type ctrl ' (ctrl + apostrophe) before you type the vowel you want to accent.