October 31 is the deadline for One Middlebury applications. The One Middlebury Fund, administered by the Office of the Provost, enables faculty from all Middlebury Programs (the College, the Institute, and the Schools) to engage in collaborative curricular, co-curricular, and scholarly work with colleagues in another Middlebury program. Specific guidelines are available on the Office of the Provost website.
Recently funded projects include MIIS professor Ed Laurance’s September visit hosted by Middlebury College Political Science professor Sarah Stroup. Laurance, who serves as an expert for a UN-led effort to develop global standards for controlling the proliferation and misuse of small arms and light weapons, lectured on “Small Arms, Violence, and Global Development.” He discussed a new international treaty on small arms that resulted from the extensive efforts of a global NGO campaign. He also visited Prof. Stroup’s classes, as a first step toward integrating their courses on global development and advancing their shared research interests in advocacy and research by NGO coalitions.
Coming up in the spring, Prof. Andrea Olsen (in residence at the Institute) will bring Professor Emeritus John Elder to Monterey give a lecture and workshop on “Writing as Activism,” as part of the course “Communicating in a Changing world,” co-taught by Olsen and Institute Professor Nukhet Kardam. The lecture will be videotaped for inclusion in a born-digital textbook that is emerging from this collaborative course. The lecture will also be available via videoconferencing to participants at the College.
For more information, see our complete list of funded projects.
-Amy McGill