GSIPM professor Nukhet Kardam spoke at a Pacific Council conference in Santa Monica on October 12. She was part of a panel entitled “Unveiled Secret: The Women Behind the Sweep of Political Islam. “
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Director of the Monterey Institute’s CySec Initiative Dr. Itamara Lochard presented the findings of the “Dynamics of the Local Situation” panel at NATO headquarters in Brussels last week, highlighting the role of how non-state armed groups employ technology and how technology can be used to increase situational awareness by the Alliance. She has chaired this panel for the past two years as part of the Human Aspects of the Operational Environment project of the NATO HUMINT Center of Excellence. The effort is sponsored by the NATO Science for Peace, Counter-Terrorism Programme of Work of the Emerging Security Challenges Division, chaired by NATO Deputy Assistant Secretary General Dr Jamie Shea.
CNS Director Bill Potter reports the following September activities:
Attended IAEA General Conference in Vienna, Austria, along with CNS Senior Research Associate Gaukhar Mukhatzhanova, September 2013.
Moderated NPT Roundtable in Vienna “On the Road to the 2015 NPT Review Conference,” September 23.
Speaker at Nonproliferation Short Course at the Vienna Center for Disarmament and Nonproliferation, September 23.
Discussant/Provocateur for Session on “Denuclearization of Ukraine, Kazakhstan, and Belarus: Incentives and Motivations” at the Conference on Nunn-Lugar Revisited, a conference organized by the National Security Archive at the Musgrove Conference Center, St. Simons Island, Georgia (September 26-29).
Professors Jeff Knopf and Sharad Joshi of the NPTS program presented papers at the ISSS/ISAC annual meeting in Washington, DC, Oct. 4-6, 2013. This event is a joint meeting of the International Security Studies Section of the International Studies Association and the International Security and Arms Control section of the American Political Science Association. Prof. Joshi also chaired and acted as discussant on a panel on counter-insurgency.
Book Piracy Policy
Oct 15
Book piracy has been added to the list of proscribed conduct in the student code of conduct in the MIIS Policies and Standards Manual, available online:
- Book piracy is a form of illegal copyright infringement. It happens by downloading textbooks or other books or copyrighted materials from a file-share website or in other ways. Often, a version of a textbook has been copied or scanned and uploaded to a computer. Sometimes downloads are unauthorized copies of purchased books. MIIS’ disciplinary policies are interpreted to prohibit book piracy by all members of the community.
IPS professor William Arrocha recently published an op-ed entitled “The Increase in Xenophobia and Human Trafficking: Endemic Problems of Today’s Globalization,” in the International Organization for Migration (IOM) newsletter Global Eye on Human Trafficking which is one of the top international newsletters on this subject. Click here and scroll down to page 10.
MIIS alum Jonah Leff, now a UN weapons inspector, was recently interviewed on BBC World Service. Here’s the description:
“A weapons inspector – tricky job at the best of times, which is why Newsday’s been hearing from inspectors past and present, five people, who have carried out inspections in five different countries… Yesterday Iraq…today it’s Somalia, Eritrea and Darfur. UN weapons inspector Jonah Leff talks about the challenges he faced.”
MIIS alum Arash Asady was featured on Fox Business News in a story about an internship program for returning veterans, which is positioning him for a Wall Street career.
The NYSE Veteran Associate Program “is exclusively designed for U.S. military veterans and equips veterans with practical, hands-on training, experience and resources in order to obtain permanent employment.”
On September 25, Dr. Itamara Lochard, director of the MIIS Cyber Security Initiative, was a panelist on cyber issues at the “Information for Strategists’ Speaker Series” at the National War College of National Defense University, Ft McNair, Washington, DC.
The following day, she participated in a cyber security dinner with Estonian President Toomas Ilves and the Estonian Ambassador to the United States. The event was hosted by Admiral Stavridis (USN retired), former SACEUR and Dean of the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy.
On September 30, a memorandum of understanding related to cyber security efforts was formally established between the Monterey Institute of International Studies and the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy.
After several months of collaborative planning with Middlebury colleagues, T&I faculty members Julie Johnson, Max Troyer, Jacolyn Harmer, Minhua Liu, Barry Olsen, María Sierra Córdoba Serrrano, and alumni Yichen Qian and Ruby Lai are in Vermont to participate in the signature academic event of the fall semester at Middlebury: The Clifford Symposium.
Please plan to drop in on some of the sessions via livestream. Here is a list of some of the Conference highlights, with PACIFIC TIMES. You can access the complete schedule here.
Thursday, September 26
1:30 pm Making Maigret New – Keynote Address
David Bellos, Professor of French, Italian and Comparative Literature
Director, Program in Translation and Intercultural Communication, Princeton University. Professor Bellos is the author of Is That a Fish in Your Ear? Translation and the Meaning of Everything (2012).
Simultaneous interpretation into Chinese by Yichen Qian and Ruby Lai. Both are professional interpreters who graduated from the Monterey Institute.
5-6:30 p.m., Translation Studies: An (Inter)Discipline Comes of Age
Translation Studies emerged as an (inter)discipline some 40 years ago, actively embracing various fields of knowledge and creating a multifaceted area of study. Panelists Rosemary Arrojo, Professor of Comparative Literature, SUNY Binghamton; María Sierra Córdoba Serrano, Assistant Professor, MIIS; Beverley Curran, Professor of Translation Studies, International Christian University, Tokyo; Minhua Liu*, Associate Professor, MIIS; and Paul Losensky, Associate Professor of Central Eurasian Studies, Indiana University will talk about their specific areas of research, including literature, gender and postcolonial studies, media, graphic novel, and legal translation, translation sociology, and interpreting studies. Moderated by Karin Hanta (Middlebury College)
* Minhua will speak in Chinese and be interpreted by Ruby Lai and Yichen Qian.
Friday, September 27
6:30-8 a.m., Translation as a Career: Experiences in the Field
Professional translators, editors, publishers of translations, and interpreters discuss how they have transformed their passion into a career. The panel will include Susan Harris, editorial director of Words without Borders; Stephen Jensen, Japanese-English technical translator in sustainability; Julie Johnson, professor of interpreting at MIIS; and Chad Post, publisher of Open Letter Book, University of Rochester. Moderated by Barry Slaughter Olsen, Assistant Professor, Translation and Conference Interpretation (MIIS).
9-10 a.m.., Lexilalia: On Translating a Dictionary of Untranslatable Terms – Keynote Address
Emily Apter, Professor of French & Comparative Literature, New York University.
Emily Apter is the author of Feminizing the Fetish: Psychoanalysis and Narrative Obsession in Turn-of-the-Century France (1993), The Translation Zone: A New Comparative Literature (2006), and Against World Literature: On the Politics of Untranslatability (2013).
10:30 a.m.-12 p.m., The “Mystery” of Translation: Global Cultural Flows
Translations bridge time and space, connecting peoples and cultures and altering them in unexpected ways. This panel considers the role of translation in mediating cultural exchange across diverse fissures and boundaries. Panelists include Nehad Heliel, literary translator and director of the Middlebury School in Alexandria, Egypt; Carrie Reed, translator of classical Chinese literature and professor of Chinese at Middlebury; and Yumiko Yanagisawa, Swedish-Japanese and English-Japanese translator and feminist activist. This panel will be moderated by Stephen Snyder, Kawashima Professor of Japanese Studies, Middlebury College.
12:00-2:00 p.m., T&I 2.0: The Next Generation of Translation and Interpreting
Faculty from the Monterey Institute discuss new technologies in interpreting and localization management.
Barry Olsen, Max Troyer and Julie Johnson, moderated by Jacolyn Harmer
5:00-6:30 p.m., (Re)Writers: Translating Poetry and Fiction
Literary translators occupy an anomalous position as “creative imitators.” Publishers and reading practices often mask their existence, preferring an illusion of direct contact between foreign writer and domestic reader. Yet the mediation of translation and the work of translators are crucial in shaping individual works and literary canons. This panel brings together working literary translators to discuss their experiences and attitudes toward their practice, including Middlebury faculty Ahmad Almallha, Timothy Billings, Michael Katz, Stephen Snyder and Paul Losensky (Indiana University). Moderated by Nina Wieda, Assistant Professor of Russian, Middlebury College.
Saturday, September 28,
7-8 a.m., Consecutive Interpretation Workshop
Workshop on consecutive interpretation with Karin Hanta (Middlebury College) and Jacolyn Harmer (MIIS)
8:00 a.m. – 9 a.m., Translingual Beats & Rhymes
Middlebury students, including the winners of the Translingual contest, perform poetry-in-translation.