Academic Programs - MIIS

Abstract: Across languages, prescriptive ideologies have traditionally been used to teach language classes. Nevertheless, adhering strictly to a prescriptive perspective in the teaching of formal, standard, and/or “academic” language without questioning its ideological and discriminatory function leads to the reproduction of a deficit perspective, in which those who use alternative varieties of the language are considered academically deficient.

Join MIIS students, faculty, and staff for am informal lunchtime meet-up.

Join faculty, students, and staff for this lunchtime meetup in the MIIS garden!

George Beebe is director of grand strategy at the Quincy Institute. He spent more than two decades in government as an intelligence analyst, diplomat, and policy advisor, including as director of the CIA’s Russia analysis, director of a CIA open source analytic group, and as a staff advisor on Russia matters to Vice President Cheney. His book, The Russia Trap: How Our Shadow War with Russia Could Spiral into Nuclear Catastrophe (St. Martin’s Press, 2019), warned how the United States and Russia could stumble into a dangerous military confrontation.

William Pyle is the Frederick C. Dirks Professor of International Economics at Middlebury College. He holds a B.A. in History from Harvard College, an M.A. in Russian and East European Studies from Indiana University, and a Ph.D. in Economics from Duke University. This fall, he is a Visiting Researcher at the Bank of Finland’s Institute for Emerging Economies (BOFIT).

The Middlebury Institute CoLab initiative will bring together local Monterey County community partners for a discussion around our collaborations on research projects in the local community.

Mini-Monterey Model, an event collaborated between Chinese, Japanese and Interpretation Practicum classes. In Irvine Auditorium

Nationalism and New States in the Balkans

Info Session on January 2025 Global Course in Rwanda

Who: Instructors Marcienne Umubyeyi and Jessica Massie (MIIS alumna) will lead a 2-week training in Kigali with travel to surrounding Rwandan cities on the role of digital transformation in driving resilience in Rwanda and East Africa.

J-term Experience in Costa Rica: Participants will observe first-hand how different organizations are attending to challenges related to specified SDGs during on-site visits in Costa Rica.  Students will collect in-situ data, conduct interviews, and compile their notes, journal entries for their final deliverable during the spring showcase.