Vice President's Office - MIIS

Join us for an evening with Pulitzer Prize Winning Author Jane Smiley who will discuss “The Most Important Question”. This lecture is the first in a series of author lectures sponsored by the Friends of the Monterey Public Library. Free admission to members of the FRIENDS of the Monterey Public Library and MIIS students. For nonmembers a voluntary donation of $10 would be appreciated. All proceeds to benefit the library. Ms. Smiley will be available to autograph books after the presentation.

This information session is for students who are interested in learning about opportunities for digital storytelling fellowships with the non-profit organization, Freedom from Hunger.

Middlebury Information Technology staff Chris Norris and Paul Dicovitsky will offer an overview of best practices for information security This presentation targets MIIS staff, but is open to any interested faculty member, staff member, or student.

Middlebury Information Technology staff Chris Norris and Paul Dicovitsky will offer an overview of best practices for information security This presentation targets MIIS staff, but is open to any interested faculty member, staff member, or student.

Inaugural symposium featuring a talk by the seventeenth president of Middlebury, Laurie L. Patton, followed by a round table discussion on The Challenge of Translatability: 21st Century Practices, Polices, and Possibilities. Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey Irvine Auditorium, 499 Pierce Street Monterey, California ***This event is by invitation only. RSVP is required.***

Elaine Korzak is currently a W. Glenn Campbell and Rita Ricardo-Campbell National Fellow at the Hoover Institution and an affiliate at the Center for International Security and Cooperation at Stanford University. She earned her PhD from the Department of War Studies at King´s College London in 2014 with a thesis on the adequacy of international law in regulating the use of cyber attacks by states. Elaine holds both an MA in International Peace and Security from King´s College London and an LL.M in Public International Law from the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE).

Michael J. Webber is currently Vice Provost of Academic Affairs at the University of San Francisco where he has particular responsibilities for the University’s branch campuses in Sacramento, San Jose, Pleasanton, Santa Rosa and a soon to be opened campus in Orange County. Webber served as the Dean of the School of Management from 2011 to 2014 where he was the first Dean of the newly named School of Management and was responsible for establishing the School’s new mission, values and strategic plan.

Presently, postgraduate higher education is faced with (at least) two major paradigm shifts simultaneously: techno-pedagogical disruptions that challenge what, how, and even why we teach; and geopolitical flux caused by economic, demographic, and ideological trends. Based on a fifteen years of leading International Relations for universities in Europe and the Middle East, this talk highlights the risks and opportunities in the postgraduate education sector. Dr. Christopher Brown currently serves as Director International at University College Cork (Ireland).

Professor Sandra Dow, the Grover M. Hermann Foundation Chair in International Business Management, will give a talk on “How Culture Shapes the Family Firm”. A growing body of research suggests the relevance of national culture in understanding business practices. At a most fundamental level, culture is a ‘background institution’ that underpins economic exchange and influences the ways in which issues and decisions are framed. For example, cultural context has been linked to the relative importance of financial markets and financial institutions as sources of capital.

As the Gordon Paul Smith Chair in International Studies, Professor Ed Laurance will deliver a lecture reflecting on his 45 years of involvement with efforts to reduce and prevent armed violence: in the U.S. Government, at MIIS, the United Nations, founder of an international NGO, and the streets of Chicago.