MIIS- Student Affairs

This will be an easy-moderate hike in the lovely Carmel Valley. The hike will follow Garzas creek and feature redwood trees. Participants will meet in the Sampson parking lot at 10am and carpool to the destination.

The ODRC will be hosting its first camping trip of the year at Pinnacles National Park. We will depart Friday afternoon and return around the same time on Saturday. This trip is limited to 10 participants so sign up while you can.

Dress Rehearsal. If you cannot make it to the O’NO band concert on March 4, you are welcome to come to the Dress Rehearsal in Irvine on March 3 at 6 pm. The band will be performing songs in 10 languages (all the MIIS languages + a Hindu song). O’NO is composed of two MIIS alumni, Nick Lambson and Olga Melnikova, as well as a current MIIS student Olga Maleko (TLM). The ONO Band already gave 2 concerts at MIIS back in 2015 and 2016.

Students from the NPTS Master’s will meet with their Student Council representatives and Chairman of the program

Your 1st and 2nd year Student Council representatives would like to invite you to a NPTS Town Hall meeting. The purpose of this event is to gather your feedback on what you think works and doesn’t work in the NPTS program. We will be serving pizza and drinks.

Yoga class

Come join REID at Del Monte Beach for a some MPA-IEM community-building fun. MPAs and IEMs are also more than welcome to hang out at the bonfire too! Free drinks, s’mores and blanket will be provided. See you there!

Guest speaker Maija West, CEO and founder of local leadership company Moxie Lab, will lead a lecture and facilitated discussion around issues concerning emerging and established leaders at MIIS. As the principal facilitator, Maija will encourage participants to ask themselves what their vision is for their lives, and whether their conduct, community and profession reflect that vision.

The veterans organization will show “Mangal Pandey: The Rising,” which is an Indian “Bollywood” movie about the Indian Mutiny of 1857. This historical drama film is in Hindi with English subtitles.

The Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey, its terrorism research center MonTREP, and the Terrorism Studies Club are pleased to announce a topical conference that will address the phenomena of antiquities looting and trafficking, as well as its and its associated financing of terrorist groups and support for extremist ideology. This discussion is for multi-disciplinary panelists with expertise in the following fields: cultural heritage and the illicit antiquities trade, anti-money laundering and counter threat finance, military and counterterrorism, as well as policy and