Vice President's Office - MIIS

Martha Nussbaum, noted philosopher and Ernst Freund Distinguished Service Professor of Law and Ethics at the University of Chicago, will speak (via live stream from Middlebury) on “Anger and Revolutionary Justice: Ideas for Liberal Learning.” The Deans’ Seminars will host a facilitated fishbowl discussion immediately following the lecture in the Holland Center courtyard.

Economists often use their analysis to understand the effects of various policies. However, they have mainly focused on domestic policy. Can we use economics to understand and predict the effects of foreign policy? Economics scholar David R. Henderson says that we can. In fact,two powerful pillars from economics-that every action has unintended consequences and that most information is inherently decentralized-have major implications for foreign policy. David R.

This meeting is by invitation only.

Please join us for a conversation with Lindsay Webbe and Dean Yuwei Shi at the McCone Boardroom. As former President of the Northern European Division of Levi Strauss and Company, Lindsay has worked in their international divisions for 30 years, including stints in Asia. Space is limited, so please RSVP through Zocalo.

You are invited to “Cake, Champagne, and Community” to celebrate the 60th Anniversary of MIIS (June 1955 - June 2015). Tuesday, June 16, 3pm at the Samson Student Center. The month of June marks the Middlebury Institute’s birthday: the articles of incorporation of the Monterey Institute of Foreign Studies are dated 9 June 1955, and were filed with the Monterey County Clerk on 17 of June. That means this month, we celebrate the 60th anniversary of the founding of the Institute. Since then, the Institute has changed its name several times and expanded its footprint in Monterey (and beyond).

2014 Spring Commencement Ceremony Location: Lawn of Colton Hall, 570 Pacific St Monterey, CA 93940

Ceremony to honor the 2014 Leslie Eliason Teacher of Excellence award recipient, Professor Julie Johnson.

Commencement Ceremonies for the Winter 2012 graduating class. Location: Golden State Theatre, 417 Alvarado Street Monterey, CA 93940

The first Global California Conference was given at Cisco Systems in Silicon Valley in 2003, and since then the last ten statewide annual conferences have focused on the issues and solutions of job creation through the promotion of bilateral trade and investment between California and the global marketplace. Over the years the Global California conferences have been conducted in Los Angeles, Sacramento, Oakland, Silicon Valley and Santa Cruz and have attracted an array of high-level businesspeople and economic development officials from both the public and private sectors in California and f