Category Archives: MIIS News & Events

International Poetry Night December 15

MIIS News & Events

The MIIS International Cultural Gathering invites faculty and staff to our last two events for this semester. Please find attached flyers related to the events.

  1.  International Music Night:  Thursday, December 5th  (6:00-8:00 pm @ Holland Center) 

Join us as we
celebrate the end of the fall semester with live performances, karaoke, and
songs from across the globe! Students, faculty, and staff are invited to share
with us their musical talents or simply to come  and enjoy the
international music and fun atmosphere.

  •  International Poetry Night: Sunday, Dec 15th
    (5:30-7:30 pm at the Faculty and Staff lounge (Lara
    Soto Adobe)

Join
us in celebrating our first anniversary for the International Poetry
Night . It is another opportunity
to hear great poetry, connect, detox, rejuvenate, and celebrate the end of the
semester!

Feel free invite your colleagues, friends and family.

Hope you have
a great rest of your week!

Best,

Rana

Rana Issa

Assistant
Professor of Professional Practice

Arabic Studies
Program

Graduate
School of Translation, Interpretation

and Language
Education

D202

Monterey, CA
93940

Tel. 831-647 4601

MIIS Community Annual Food Drive

MIIS News & Events

Dear MIIS Faculty and Staff and Students: 

On October 31st, our MIIS Community kicked off our Annual Food Drive.  This is a community event that has taken place on campus for over 20 years.

Our Goal is to raise 1,000 lbs of non-perishable food items by NOVEMBER 18TH

Here is where we are after 8 days:

Please look in your cupboards over the weekend. Perhaps you have some items that you can bring and it won’t cost you a dime!  Bag them up, and bring them in! 

This year we have three collection barrels on campus – one in Samson Center Dining Area; one in the McCone Atrium; and, the third in Office Services.

If you would rather write a check to donate, there are some envelopes in Office Services, located in Casa Fuente, that you can obtain. 

For every $1 dollar that is donated, $5.00 worth of food is purchased . . . . and out of every dollar donation, 95% goes directly to feeding the hungry.

If you simply do not have the time, bring me the cash, and I will shop for you!!!

We will be sending out regular emails in the next 10 days to keep you updated on our community’s progress. Thank you all!

With deep appreciation!

Naomi Braswell and the Staff Advisory Team

Operations Coordinator | Office Services & Gift Shop

Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey

Phone: 831-647-4120

Email: nbraswell@miis.edu

Institute Celebrates Immersive Learning, Applied Research, and Hands-On Learning Projects in 2nd Annual Report

MIIS News & Events

Learn about Middlebury Institute student immersive learning, research, and other hands-on learning projects from the last academic year in the second annual Immersive Learning, Research, and Impact Report. 

This report celebrates onsite courses, practicum, and fellowships managed through MIIS programs or courses. It is also a celebration of the Middlebury faculty and staff who support these students in their learning.

Every year, we are gathering more information on projects that take students outside of the traditional classroom and provide them with the opportunity to have an impact in their field even before graduation. 

Learn more
about immersive
learning at MIIS.

A special thanks to Blaine Barkley MA NPTS ’20 and Valerie Castello for their work developing this report.

Institute Celebrates Immersive Learning, Applied Research, and Hands-On Learning Projects in 2nd Annual Report

MIIS News & Events

Learn about Middlebury Institute student immersive learning, research, and other hands-on learning projects from the last academic year in the second annual Immersive Learning, Research, and Impact Report. 

This report celebrates onsite courses, practicum, and fellowships managed through MIIS programs or courses. It is also a celebration of the Middlebury faculty and staff who support these students in their learning.

Every year, we are gathering more information on projects that take students outside of the traditional classroom and provide them with the opportunity to have an impact in their field even before graduation. 

Learn more
about immersive
learning at MIIS.

A special thanks to Blaine Barkley MA NPTS ’20 and Valerie Castello for their work developing this report.

MIIS Staff Advisor Team Announces First Friday Staff Meet-Ups

Midd Points, MIIS News & Events

The Staff Advisory Team will hold a monthly meet-up with staff from 12-1:30pm every first Friday. The next Staff Meet-Up on October 4th from 12:00 p.m. to 1:00 p.m. in MG-100 or via Zoom: go.miis.edu/staffmeetup. The topic will be “New Staff Governance Roles and Feedback” with guest speakers Ashley Arrocha and Bob Cole.

Ashley Arrocha will speak about her new role on the Institute Board of Overseers (IBO) and discuss the staff input process and share feedback related to the IBO. Bob Cole will provide Middlebury Staff Council updates and a general overview of his role Staff Council.

There will be time for a Q&A and open discussion after the presentations.

Staff can read past newsletters and view recordings of these meetings at http://sites.middlebury.edu/staff.

Life in Stone: An evening with art, food, and storytelling with Zimbabwean artist, Moses Nyanhongo

Midd Points, MIIS News & Events

Middlebury Institute of International Studies’ Committee on Art in Public Places (iCAPP) in partnership with Gallery Sur invites students, staff, faculty, alumni, and the Monterey community to meet Shona stone sculptor Moses Nyanhongo from Zimbabwe for a free outdoor sculpting demonstration at the Holland Center Courtyard (442 ½ Van Buren Street) on the Middlebury Institute campus from 5-7 PM, September 26, 2019. The event will be repeated at Gallery Sur Carmel from 11-3 on Sunday, September 29. Light refreshments and Zimbabwean hospitality will be enjoyed at both locations.

In addition to the demonstration, Gallery Sur will exhibit a collection of fine art sculptures by several of the premier artists of Zimbabwe, including Moses Nyanhongo, using the multi-colored indigenous stones of their country.

The demonstration is an engaging opportunity to watch the hand carving process as Moses Nyanhongo shares both his sculpting technique and the cultural background of the world acclaimed Shona Sculpture Movement. 

MIIS was founded in 1955 (as Monterey Institute of International Studies) to promote international understanding through the study of language and culture, in pursuit of a more just and peaceful world.  The transformative effect of art speaks to the very core of the Middlebury Institute’s goal to expand the perceptions of its students and faculties, by improving intercultural competence. The Middlebury Committee on Art in Public Places invites our entire community to experience the beauty of Shona stone sculpture, an emotional expression of the unique socio-cultural identity of the Zimbabwean people, which reminds us all there is more that binds us together than separates us.

Shona sculpture is an integral part of Zimbabwean culture, and the Shona Sculpture Movement reads like a testimony of time and place as the artists sculpt a cultural and spiritual induced depiction of the ever-changing Zimbabwean society.  The superlative techniques and ancestral traditions are passed from master to student, while each artist expresses their own experience of the individual, the beauty and mystery of the natural world, and the ancestral wisdom of the interconnectedness of all life.

Born of an artistic environment free from the constraints of formal artistic rules and boundaries, the Shona Sculpture Movement has become known as the most compelling and evocative form of art to emerge from Africa in the 20th century.  Shona sculpture is featured in the world’s finest museums, including the Museum of Modern Art New York and The Rodin Museum, and in galleries and private collections worldwide.