As part of the Graduate Initiative in Russian Studies at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey, a faculty member and four graduate students in the Institute’s Graduate School of International Policy and Management will be visiting the Russian Far East in March 2015. The trip is fully funded by the grant from Carnegie Corporation of New York to support the Initiative in Russian Studies. The four students are Jessica Yoo, Kathryn Smart, Jack Lomicky, and Lewis Dorman, who were selected on a competitive basis. The visit to the Russian Far East is a part of a semester-long seminar “Russia and East Asia,” taught by Professor Tsuneo Akaha, which examines Russia’s evolving relations with East Asian countries and the role played by the Russian Far East in those relations. In the seminar, Professor Akaha and the students are developing research questions they will pursue when they visit Vladivostok and Khabarovsk from March 22-28. In Vladivostok the team will engage professors and students at the Far Eastern Federal University, as well as local experts and journalists in discussions of the political, economic, security, social, and cultural aspects of Russia’s relationship with her neighboring Asian countries and the United States. In Khabarovsk, the group will visit the Economic Research Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences’ Far Eastern Branch, and discuss the same issues with researchers, students, and journalists. Upon return to Monterey, they will compile their findings into a research report. The participants are very excited about this project, particularly the opportunity to engage students and experts in the Russian Far East against the backdrop of the increasingly challenged and challenging relationship between Russia and the United States over the Ukraine crisis, which is beginning to affect Russia’s relations with her East Asian neighbors.
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Updates from the MIIS Cyber Security Initiative
December 2014: MIIS CySec Director, Dr. Itamara Lochard spoke at the NATO Science for Peace effort in the Balkans by the NATO Center of Excellence Defense Against Terrorism and the MacedonianMilitary Academy Mihailo Apostolski. Papers of this NATO Advanced Training Workshop on “Terrorists’ Use of Cyberspace” were presented by a dozen international SMEs to over 60 participants from all Balkan countries. MIIS CySec was pleased to assist in the development of this workshop which aims to increase understanding and cooperation on the topic as well as address needs of the region. Papers will be published by NATO. 
Middlebury School of the Environment
Did you know that your college-age son or daughter could attend the Middlebury School of the Environment this summer and earn 9 credit hours? Need-based grants are available.
The School of the Environment offers an introductory and advanced track. The introductory track is open to any college undergraduate and no previous college-level coursework is necessary. The advanced track is open to rising juniors and seniors from any undergraduate institution who have engaged in some study of the environment and who have completed at least one college-level lab course.
Students enrolling in the session (June 19 to July 31, 2015) will take three integrated courses. Introductory track courses include a systems-thinking practicum, introduction to environmental analysis, and an elective. Advanced track courses include a skills-based sustainability practicum, understanding place, and an elective. The three courses will share connecting themes, tools, strategies and faculty, as well as mentors, visiting scholars and practitioners.
An emphasis will be on linking skills associated with leadership and innovative problem-solving with a solid grounding in the principles and concepts of environmental studies.
Contact Stephen Trombulak, Director, if you have questions at trombula@middlebury.edu. Visit the School of the Environment Blog for updates and information.
16th Mini-Monterey Event
The Mini-Monterey Model is collaborative effort between the Language and Intercultural Program and the Interpretation Practicum class. It includes a set of presentations given by students in the languages that they are studying. The presentations are then simultaneously interpreted by students of interpretation into various languages.
The theme this year, presented by the Chinese Studies Program, is Current Events and Dao De Jing; students will present on their research projects on a variety of topics, including international politics, environment, trade disputes, humanities, etc., with many presentations relating to “the way” (also known as “the dao” or “the tao”). Interpretation Practicum students will simultaneously interpret these Chinese speeches into English, Japanese, French, and Spanish, using relay interpretation (Chinese to English to Spanish/ Japanese/ French). As part of the program, students will give a demonstration explaining how consecutive and simultaneous interpretation work.
MIIS CySec Updates
MAY 2014
MIIS CySec SME for NATO on Terrorists’ Use of Cyber and Technology and How to Counter It
Director of MIIS CySec Dr. Itamara Lochard presented on “Terrorists’ Use of Cyber and Technology” and “Countering Terrorists’ Use of Cyber and Technology” at the NATO Center of Excellence Defense Against Terrorism (CoE-DAT) executive education workshop in Ankara, Turkey. Participants included political/military officers from NATO, Partnership for Peace, Mediterranean Dialogue, Istanbul Cooperative Initiative countries as well as non-NATO member-states.
JUNE 2014
MIIS CySec Trains Cyber Aspects of Crisis Management to Hundreds of International Cadets
MIIS CySec Director Dr. Itamara Lochard trained an international group of 170 cadets and 12 civilian students on the cyber component of a 10-day post-conflict / crisis management field exercise in Negotino, Macedonia. Other instructors from various militaries, the Red Cross, the Marshall Center and the U.S. National Guard taught other aspects of peace operations. Participants were from Bosnia-Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Germany, Kosovo, Macedonia, Montenegro, the United Kingdom and the United States. This was the first time a cyber element was added to this effort in the past five years and MIIS was the only civilian academic institution involved. The event, sponsored by the Macedonian Ministry of Defense, aimed to provide critical exposure for cadets in interoperability, cultural awareness and technical training as they will be standing shoulder to shoulder during future international missions. Macedonia is the state partner of Vermont and their military academy is an MIIS CySec partner.
AUGUST 2014
MIIS CySec Launches Executive Education on Cyberspace Policy for Sandia National Labs’ Cooperative Monitoring Center
MIIS CySec conducted the first interdisciplinary “Cyberspace and International Affairs” Executive Education workshop for our partners at the Cooperative Monitoring Center’s International Partnership Building program of Sandia National Laboratories. Sponsored by the U.S. Department of Energy, the goal was to teach next-generation leaders how international relations intersects with the information age so that they may fold it into national security policies, cyber strategies as well as educational efforts. It was an effort to use cyber as a platform for cooperation and peace, in this instance for participants from Pakistan. MIIS CySec Director Dr. Itamara Lochard, Dr. George Moore, Dr. Philip Murphy, MIIS CySec Senior Language Fellow Fellow and Director of Lingua Brava, LLC Mr. Shawn Kumagai were instructors of the MIIS segment of the program.
SEPTEMBER 2014
MIIS CySec Panelist at Annual Goldman Sachs CFO Conference for Fortune 100s
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MIIS CySec Director Dr. Itamara Lochard was as a panelist at the Goldman Sachs Annual Chief Financial Officer (CFO) Conference in Washington D.C. MIIS was the only academic institution represented in this crowd of Fortune 100s and U.S. government representatives. “The Modern Cybersecurity Landscape: A Path Forward” panel in which she participated included U.S. Department of Homeland Security, Under Secretary for National Protection and Programs Directorate Suzanne Spaulding, Goldman Sachs Chief Information Risks Officer Philip Venables, IBM General Manager of Security Systems Brendan Hannigan and CEO of Tenable Network Security Ron Gula.
OCTOBER 2014
MIIS CySec Director Chairs Panel for NATO Doctrine Development; Findings Published by NATO
For the past three years, MIS CySec Director Dr. Itamara Lochard chaired “Understanding the Local Population” panel of the Human Aspects of the Operational Environment project for the NATO HUMINT Center of Excellence. Funded by the Defense Against Terrorism Project of Work by NATO HQ in Belgium, the aim was to create an interdisciplinary report by international group of subject matter experts to help facilitate doctrine development by the Alliance for present and future operations. The final meeting took place in Romania in October 2014 where chairs received the first printed versions of the publications and discussed future collaboration possibilities. Electronic versions and additional longer papers by each chair and participant will be available online on the NATO HCOE website and MIIS CySec website.
MIIS CySec Co-Sponsors “31st Annual Workshop on Global Security” on Russia, Ukraine and Cyber Issues for Senior NATO, Government and Tech Industries
MIIS CySec was a co-sponsor of the 31st International Workshop on Global Security at l’Hôtel des Invalides in Paris, France for senior-level, civilian and military leaders of NATO, the U.S. Department of State, U.S. Department of Defense, foreign dignitaries and key tech companies. Dr. Itamara Lochard presented, “Addressing Complexity: Trends in Cyber Cooperation” on the “Dealing with the Threat — the Key Role of Industry” panel while MIIS CySec Senior Distinguished Research Fellow Dr. Linton Wells II chaired the “Cybersecurity Foundations: Norms, Governance, Infrastructures and People” panel. This year’s Chatham House rules-event by the Center for Strategic Decision Research took place in Paris, France with the Institut des Hautes Études de Défense Nationale. The focus was Russia, Ukraine and post-Snowden cyber threats that face the Alliance. Releasable summaries and published papers will appear on the MIIS CySec website.
Dr. Itamara Lochard Published
13 – 18 October 2014: For the past three years, MIIS CySec Director, Dr. Itamara Lochard chaired “Understanding the Local Population” panel of the Human Aspects of the Operational Environment project for the NATO HUMINT Center of Excellence. The aim was to create an interdiscipinary report for NATO HQ from an international group of subject manner experts to help facilitate doctrine development by the NATO Alliance for present and future operations. The final meeting took place in Romania in October 2014 where chairs received the first paper versions of our efforts and discussed other collaboration possibilities. Electronic versions are available online on the NATO HCOE website.
MIIS CySec Sponsors 31st International Workshop on Global Security
27 – 28 October 2014: MIIS CySec was an associate sponsor of the 31st International Workshop on Global Security at l’Hôtel des Invalides in Paris, France for high-level civilian and military leaders of NATO, the U.S. Department of State, U.S. Department of Defense, foreign dignitaries and key tech companies. This year’s Chatham House rules-event focused on Russia, Ukraine and post-Snowden cyber threats that face the Alliance. MIIS CySec Director Dr. Itamara Lochard presented, “Addressing Complexity: Trends in Cyber Cooperation” on the “Dealing with the Threat — the Key Role of Industry” panel while MIIS CySec Senior Distinguished Research Fellow Dr. Lin Wells chaired the “Cybersecurity Foundations: Norms, Governance, Infrastructures and People” panel. Scrubbed proceeding summaries and papers will appear on our site once published. 
First Executive Education Workshop on “Cyberspace & International Affairs”
In August 2014 MIIS CySec Director Dr. Itamara Lochard conducted the first Executive Education workshop on “Cyberspace and International Affairs” for our partners at Sandia National Labs (SNL) Cooperative Monitoring Center’s International Partnership Building program. Sponsored by the U.S. Department of Energy, the goal of SNL’s pilot cyber executive education was to teach next-generation leaders how international relations intersects with the information age so that they may fold it into national security policies, cyber strategies as well as educational efforts. It was a great example of how cyber issues can be used a platform for cooperation and peace, in this instance for South Asia. The workshop we developed took place in New Mexico, California and Washington, D.C. during the first three weeks of August exposing participants to how U.S. national labs, Silicon Valley, academia, think tanks and the policy world address this critical topic.
Professor Jan Knippers Black Continues Work Promoting Human Rights
Professor Jan Knippers Black was quoted on Oct. 23 in a Washington Post article on the new directions of Amnesty International USA. She was re-elected earlier this year to another three-year term on the AIUSA Board, leading a slate of 18 candidates. She is pictured here with AIUSA Executive Director Steven Hawkins, speaker at MIIS last spring, and receiving a UN Human Rights Day service award.
Dr Black will be participating this fall in an Amnesty Regional conference in Albuquerque, a state Democratic Party executive board meeting in San Diego, an international Human Rights Education meeting in Washington, D.C. and an AIUSA Board meeting and a MIIS/Middlebury alumni reunion in New York City. She has spent much of the year traveling for the Amnesty Board as well as for other board meetings and academic conferences. In Canada last summer for the International Political Science Association and other meetings, she was interviewed for print media about her experience in human rights activism; and she was interviewed by Sao Paulo’s TV Univesp on US relations with Brazil. She is also being interviewed this fall for an oral history project featuring community leaders and social change agents on California’s Central Coast.
15th International Film Festival presented by the local United Nations Association
15th International Film Festival presented by the local United Nations Association
Thursday, November 6 at 7:00 pm Friday, November 7 at 7:00 pm Saturday, November 8 at 5:00 pm
at the beautiful and historic GOLDEN STATE THEATRE 417 Alvarado Street in Monterey
12 excellent, issues-oriented international documentary films will be featured
Admission: just $10 per session of 4 films, FREE for all full-time students with ID
Cash only, at the door, open seating
Doors open one hour before each session
Film Descriptions:
Rape in the Fields (53 minutes) “This is a story about what many women go through to keep those jobs and food on the table.” Ladino was an 18-year veteran of the fields of Monterey County when one day her Anthony Smith Co. supervisor took her to a remote location and sexually assaulted her. Like many undocumented workers, she feared for her job and kept her mouth shut.
Karama Has No Walls ( 26 minutes) ‘Karama has no walls’ an Oscar-nominated short documentary, is set amidst Yemen’s 2011 uprising. The film illustrates the nature of the Yemeni revolution in stark contrast to the gross violations of human rights.
Queen of the Sun (82 minutes) What are the bees telling us? Is a profound alternative look at the global bee crisis from award-winning filmmaker Taggart Siegel.
Underwater Dreams (85 minutes) Underwater Dreams is a documentary film about how the high school sons of undocumented Mexican immigrants learned how to build underwater robots.
American Arab (60 minutes) The film follows the personal story of Alshaibi’s life in post-9/11 America & concentrates on sensitive issues pertaining to race & identity.
Age of Aluminum (52 minutes) Aluminum is everywhere – not only in soda cans but also in foods, cosmetics, and many medications, including most vaccinations.
Trashed (68 minutes) The extent and effects of the global waste problem, around the world tainted by pollution. The beauty of our planet from space forms a violent contrast to the scenes of human detritus across the globe – vast landscapes covered in tons of rubbish, rivers barely visible under a tide of plastic.
Not My Life (68 minutes) Not My Life is the first film to depict the cruel and dehumanizing practices of human trafficking and modern slavery on a global scale. Filmed on five continents, in a dozen countries, Not My Life takes viewers into a world where millions of children are exploited, every day, through an astonishing array of practices including forced labor, domestic servitude, begging, sex tourism, sexual violence, and child soldiering.
Sand Wars (74 minutes) Most of us think of sand as a complimentary ingredient of any beach vacation. Yet those seemingly insignificant grains of silica surround our daily lives. Every house, skyscraper and glass building, every bridge, airport and sidewalk in our modern society depends on sand. We use it to manufacture optical fiber, cell phone components and computer chips. We find it in our toothpaste, powdered foods and even in our glass of wine, including the glass.