Academic Programs - MIIS

Dr. Gregory Winger Lecture: Alliances & Technological Change: Cybersecurity in the U.S.-East Asia Alliances

Spring Commencement 2024 will be held on Saturday, May 18, 2024 at 1:00 PM Pacific Time. The in-person ceremony will be held outdoors at Colton Hall Lawn, Pacific Street between Madison and Jefferson Streets, Monterey, CA.

The ceremony will be accessible in an online format with livestream for graduates, families and friends around the globe. A reception will be held on campus immediately following the ceremony. Location TBD.

For more information: go.miis.edu/commencement

Open to those by invitation. Seating begins at noon. Ceremony is from 1:00pm - 2:30pm.

Sener Akturk is Professor in the Department of International Relations at Koç University. He is a scholar of comparative politics, with a focus on comparative politics of ethnicity, religion, and nationalism. After completing his BA and MA at the University of Chicago and his PhD in political science at the University of California, Berkeley, he was a postdoctoral fellow at the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies and a Visiting Lecturer at the Department of Government at Harvard University.

How Do We Prevent the Next Pandemic? What Went Wrong and How We Can Do Better Next Time?

Experts warn that the world could face another global pandemic or an even worse biological threat. But what can we do to prevent the next crisis? In his latest book, The Covid-19 Intelligence Failure, Erik Dahl highlights how breakdowns in intelligence, surveillance, and warning exacerbated the crisis and outlines what we need to do differently today. Zoom option available. Register now: go.miis.edu/dahl

Join us to experience the Chado (Way of Tea) tradition. The Urasenke School Instructors will demonstrate the Japanese Tea Ceremony. The instructors and MIIS TI and LS Japanese students will serve guests a bowl of matcha tea and a single confectionery. Come to relax and enjoy the aesthetic tradition.

Please register here by February 11 (Sun). 

The 32nd Mini-Monterey Model is a collaborative event with Chinese, Japanese & Language Studies Program and Interpretation Practicum class to showcase content research result in target languages, being simultaneously interpreted into English and other languages. 

TESOL/TFL Capstone students will report on their teaching Practicum and Applied Linguistics Capstone projects and current students will share on a project from this semester which was particularly impactful for them. Pizza & Potluck as well!

(The project shareout will be recorded and the link shared for later viewing.)

TLM students are encouraged to attend the Fall TLM Townhall, which will be held in two parts, part one in the end of the fall semester and part two in the beginning of the spring semester. This townhall is a place for students to come and join a moderated discussion and give feedback about the TLM program. This is a student-only event. All feedback will be anonymized. A pizza lunch and beverages will be provided to in-person attendees. Zoom will be available for remote attendees.