MonTREP researchers and GSIPM faculty members Jeffrey M. Bale, Sharad Joshi, and Gordon Hahn all gave talks at a panel on “Leaderless Jihad? Terrorist Attacks in the New Millenium and Lessons for the Future,” a panel which Professor Bale organized. The panel took place at 10 am on October 17 at the 2009 ISSS-ISAC Conference, which was co-sponsored by NPS and CNS and held over a three-day period at the Hyatt Regency Resort and Spa in Monterey. Professor Bale’s talk was on the March 2004 Madrid bombings, Professor Joshi’s talk was on the November 2008 Mumbai attacks, and Professor Hahn’s talk was on recent Chechen terrorist operations. In addition, there was a talk on counterterrorist radicalization strategies by Lorenzo Vidino (a postdoctoral fellow at the Belfer Center at Harvard University). The panel chair and discussant was Professor Phil Williams, director of the Ridgeway Center for International Security Studies at the University of Pittsburgh. Despite being on the last day and in the last time slot, the panel was attended by over 20 people, a relatively large audience for the conference.
Category: Events
Save the Date! Middlebury Physics Professor to Speak at MIIS
Global Vision-Global Reach: Monterey/Middlebury Lecture Series
presents:
Richard Wolfson
Benjamin F. Wissler Professor of Physics, Middlebury College
“Nuclear Power: One Environmentalist’s Perspective.”
Wed, Nov. 11, 6:00 -7:30 pm
McGowan 102
Pro- or anti-nuclear? To this environmentalist, nuclear power is too complex for a simple “pro” or “anti” stance. On the one hand, nuclear power is decidedly dangerous, with its deadly radioactive waste, potential for accidents and terrorist attacks, and its connection to nuclear weapons. On the other hand, nuclear power provides a significant fraction of the world’s electricity, and does so with minimal carbon emissions. The nuclear option is one of only two long-proven, large-scale alternatives to fossil fuels for electric power generation. And the very thing that makes nuclear power dangerous—its high energy density—also means that the nuclear option uses far fewer resources and generates far less waste than fossil fuels. So how should an environmentalist view nuclear power? This talk gives one environmentalist’s nuanced answer.
TLC Friday Sandbox Returns
Please join the folks at the TLC for a Friday Sandbox session on the new blogging community. The Friday Sandbox started last year as a time/space where staff could get together and play with new technologies. All skill levels are welcome and the goal is to experiment, have fun, and learn a thing or two. The TLC hopes to have Sandbox sessions most Fridays and are looking for suggestions for new topics/themes.
In general, the TLC is always looking to help with idea development and innovation of all kinds. Feel free to stop by Kade – they love visitors and sometimes even have treats!
Share your view of the world!
2010 Calendar Photo Contest Announced
The calendar will showcase and celebrate the experiences, diversity and cultures present at the Institute and will be available for purchase this holiday season.
* Open to all members of the MIIS community (Students, Faculty, Staff, and Alumni)
* There are no specific scenes or categories required for this photo contest. Please consider submitting images that reveal the culture, people, scenery, traditions and/or unique aspects, capturing the essence of a place you have visited or live.
* All photos must be submitted digitally on a CD or DVD, no exceptions. (If your photo was taken with a film camera, please scan it and submit it as a digital file)
* Digital photos must be at least 300 dpi (1 MB or more in size)
* Color and Black and white photos will be accepted.
* You can submit a maximum of three photos per person.
* When you submit your photos you must include:
Your Full Name
If you are a Student, Faculty, Staff, Alumni
Email Address
Phone Number
Title of photo (for each photo)
Location (for each photo)
Caption for photo (for each photo)
* You must also submit a signed release waiver for the photos. (Please see attached file)
* Deadline for all submissions is Friday, October 9, by 5:00 pm. (No Exceptions)
* The top 12 photographs will be used in the calendar
* Photographs will be judged by the Monterey Institute Community in an online voting process during the week of 10/12/09-10/16/09. Winners will receive a free calendar.
* The twelve photographs chosen for the calendar publication become property of the Monterey Institute of International Studies. Photographs will be viewed online via a password protected website. By submitting your photograph(s) you are authorizing that they can be uploaded to a third party site for viewing and voting.
* Only one photo from each photographer will be eligible to win a place in the calendar. If more than one photograph from a single photographer wins, the photograph that received the most votes will be the winning photograph for that photograph. The subsequent places will be awarded to the photographs from other photographers with the next highest vote count.
Submit your photos to Gail Lu, Coordinator of Student Services, in the Student Affairs building. If needed, you can also send your photo CD by mail to Gail Lu, Monterey Institute of International Studies, 460 Pierce Street, Monterey, CA 93940.
If you have any questions, please call 831.647.3586 or email gail.lu@miis.edu.
We will continue to hold the Annual International Bazaar Photo Contest in the spring.
Film Series Screens Argentine Comedy
The T&I Spanish Program of GSTILE is proud to present the twenty-fourth film in its Argentine Film Series. This is a continuing, free-of-charge event, open to all MIIS students, faculty, staff and guests. Films are in Spanish with English subtitles. The blockbuster comedy UN NOVIO PARA MI MUJER (A BOYFRIEND FOR MY WIFE, 2009) will be screened Tuesday, October 6 at 6:30 PM in Room B 104. The film stars award-winning actor and producer Adrián Suar as Valeria Bertuccelli’s husband. Valeria is the “perfect” manifestation of pessimism, bad vibes and constant nagging and whining. Adrián is so fed up with her that he tries to find a man who will seduce her, since he can’t bring himself to ask for a divorce.
A BOYFRIEND FOR MY WIFE has been recognized both by film critics and audiences alike, and has been nominated for four Silver Condor Awards—the statuette of the Argentine Film Critics Association—for Best Actor (Adrián Suar), Best Actress (Valeria Bertuccelli), Best Supporting Actor (Gabriel Goity) and Best Screenplay (Pablo Solarz).
Watch the trailer (in Spanish) on YouTube
Future screenings will include The Signal (November 10) and Argentina’s representative to the 2009 Oscars® Leonera.
Special screenings on demand. Please contact Prof. Marcos Celesia.
** See poster attached **
Reminder: IA and Communications Open House this Friday
We hope to see many of you at our open house/happy hour later this week! Please come by to visit our new space, learn more about what we do, and enjoy good food and company. Door prizes will be awarded!
Friday, October 2nd
Four until six p.m.
McGowan Building, Suite 300
Former Ambasador, Head of U.N. Association, to speak at MIIS
On Tuesday, September 29, at 7:00 p.m., Ambassador Thomas A. Miller, former U.S. Ambassador to Bosnia, Herzegovina, and Greece, will speak at Irvine. His topic is “The Obama Administration Foreign Policy, Challenges and Opportunities – a Practitioner’s Perspective.” Download this flyer for additional details.
Found in Translation: the latest in T&I research
MIIS faculty, staff and students are invited to visit the world of translation and interpreting research in an ongoing series of talks that bein next Tuesday, September 29.
The series provides a forum to share and discuss recent developments in research on the practice and training of translators, interpreters and localizers. All sessions will be interpreted by Practicum students.
September 29 (Tue) 12:15 – 1:45 @Irvine
“Experimenting on/with students – applications of process research to translator training” – Anthony Pym
There is a growing body of research on what happens in the translator’s brain. The challenge is now to find ways to apply that research to the ways translators are trained. One way is to conduct simple experiments in the translation class, not so that students become guinea pigs but to help them discover things about their own translation processes.
This talk will present the results of experiments conducted in my classes in Monterey in 2008 and 2009, dealing with language-specific translation norms, the impact of different translation instructions, the use of human-revised machine translation output, and the speed variable.
Students who have been experimented upon are very welcome to attend, as are instructors who might like to experiment.
October 27 (Tue) 12:15 – 1:45 @Irvine
“Translation and Globalization: the Spanish-language translation publishing market” – María Sierra Córdoba Serrano
November 17 (Tue) 12:15 – 1:45 @Irvine
“Building Corpora for Translator Education: methodology and applications” – Wallace Chen
Please contact Kayoko Takeda (kayoko.takeda@exchange.miis.edu) for details.
Unwanted books? Donate them to the library book sale!
If you just moved your office, or cleaned out your closets, you may find yourself with a stack (or boxes!) of unwanted books that you would like to be rid of. Please consider bringing them to the library so we can add them to our annual booksale, scheduled for late October. This way, you can be sure they reach people who really want and need them. And our students really enjoy and anticipate this event, so you’ll be making a real contribution to the MIIS community.
Of course, any books that are suitable for the library collection will be kept and added – another way that you can contribute to making more resources available to students and faculty alike.
Any questions, please contact:
Christie Tam
Reference Librarian/Language Specialist
William Tell Coleman Library
H1N1 Panel
Members of the Institute community are invited to attend a discussion with local medical and public health experts on plans to respond to an influenza pandemic.
Date: September 9
Time: Registration and reception at 5:30; presentation at 6:30
Location: Irvine Auditorium
Academic Technology Resource Fair!
Come one, come all!!
Students, faculty & staff cordially invited to a collaborative resource and information fair during orientation week. Representatives from campus technology departments will be on hand to answer questions and help point you in the right direction.
Tuesday, August 25th, 1-4pm in the Samson Center Courtyard.
Akaha to speak at Peace Forum
This week, Prof. Tsuneo Akaha will be a panelist in a forum on peace.
The Jeju Peace Institute, headed by Amb. HAN Tae Kyu, is pleased to
announce live webcasts of the 5th Jeju Peace Forum to be held at Havich
Hotel & Resort, August 11th, Tuesday – 13th, Thursday, 2009.
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon will be among the year’s
participants, along with over one hundred leading figures in business,
politics, and academia from home and abroad. For more information about
the forum and its participants, please open the attached program.
Astronaut Jim Newman addresses Fulbrighters
Dr. James Newman of the Naval Postgraduate School was on campus July 30 to talk with visiting Fulbright students. He shared stories of his time as an astronaut during four Space Shuttle missions. Dr. Newman has logged over 43 days space, including working in the International Space Station and six space walks. He gave the visiting Fulbrighters a taste of what it’s like to be inside a space vehicle as well as his insights for the future of space exploration. Addressing students in both German and Mandarin during his presentation, Dr. Newman expressed his hope that nations would work multi-laterally to set up outposts on the Moon and Mars. His lecture inspired at least one Fulbrighter to consider a career with NASA.
Advising and Career Services Open House
Your colleagues at
The Center for Advising and Career Services
extend a warm invitation for
you to attend an
Open House
At The Center for Advising and Career Services
Third Floor of the McCone Building
Please come up to visit the new space, meet the staff, enjoy good food, good friends and the lovely
environment of the new Center.
Friday, the twenty-first of August
Two thousand and nine
4:00 – 7:00 pm ~ Wine & Cheese Reception
Running One MIIS Sessions Continue
The Running One MIIS sessions, held every other Tuesday from 12-1:30, have become increasingly well attended, and have generated some great discussions! Here are the slides from the last two presentations: HR and Communications. Next Up, on June 16th, Admissions.