MHC's artist-in-residence Jeannine Oppewall, whose credits include Seabiscuit (2003), L.A. Confidential (1997), and Catch Me If You Can (2002), delivered a presentation "On Finding the Art in Industry". She has won and been nominated for numerous art direction and set design awards, including four Oscar nominations, most recently for The Good Shepherd.

Best-selling author, activist, and Middlebury College scholar Bill McKibben delivered an evening lecture titled “350--The Most Important Number in the World,” in which he melded his insightful understanding of communities, environmental policy, and climate change into a call for action—and offered alternatives for individual as well as collective engagement with this critical issue.

Best-selling author, activist, and Middlebury College scholar Bill McKibben delivered an evening lecture titled “350--The Most Important Number in the World,” in which he melded his insightful understanding of communities, environmental policy, and climate change into a call for action—and offered alternatives for individual as well as collective engagement with this critical issue.

Best-selling author, activist, and Middlebury College scholar Bill McKibben delivered an evening lecture titled “350--The Most Important Number in the World,” in which he melded his insightful understanding of communities, environmental policy, and climate change into a call for action—and offered alternatives for individual as well as collective engagement with this critical issue.

The Emmy and Peabody Award-winning journalist delivered the first Spring 2009 Body Politic(s) lecture and launched the Weissman Center for Leadership and the Liberal Arts Tenth Anniversary celebration with her talk titled "From Jim Crow to Apartheid South Africa and Beyond: A Journalist's Journey."

Award-winning journalist and author of The Woman Behind the New Deal: The Life of Frances Perkins, FDR’s Secretary of Labor and His Moral Conscience gave a talk on March 31. Kirstin Downey provided a riveting exploration of how and why Perkins slipped into historical oblivion, and restores Perkins to her proper place in history.

The lecture was part of the 2008-2009 Body Politic(s) series exploring contemporary political matters, issues of women and power and powerlessness, and the issues, possibilities, and challenges that arise when bodies are politicized by domestic and international policies, wars, and conflicts. The event was cosponsored by the Weissman Center for Leadership and the Liberal Arts and the Mount Holyoke College Frances Perkins Program.

Award-winning journalist and author of The Woman Behind the New Deal: The Life of Frances Perkins, FDR’s Secretary of Labor and His Moral Conscience gave a talk on March 31. Kirstin Downey provided a riveting exploration of how and why Perkins slipped into historical oblivion, and restores Perkins to her proper place in history.

The lecture was part of the 2008-2009 Body Politic(s) series exploring contemporary political matters, issues of women and power and powerlessness, and the issues, possibilities, and challenges that arise when bodies are politicized by domestic and international policies, wars, and conflicts. The event was cosponsored by the Weissman Center for Leadership and the Liberal Arts and the Mount Holyoke College Frances Perkins Program.

The award-winning author recently read from this year's Common Read, Caucasia, and her newest book Where Did You Sleep Last Night?: A Personal History.

The daughter of a black father and a white mother, both writers and activists in the Civil Rights movement, Danzy Senna grew up in Boston and attended Stanford University. She holds an M.F.A. in creative writing from the University of California, Irvine, where she received several creative writing awards.

The award-winning author recently read from this year's Common Read, Caucasia, and her newest book Where Did You Sleep Last Night?: A Personal History.

The daughter of a black father and a white mother, both writers and activists in the Civil Rights movement, Danzy Senna grew up in Boston and attended Stanford University. She holds an M.F.A. in creative writing from the University of California, Irvine, where she received several creative writing awards.

In 1988, the Internet was an academic curiosity, used by less than a million students and professors. Twenty years later, it's the backbone of communication, commerce, and technological innovation around the world. It's easy to forget that most of the world still is not connected to the Internet and that the Internet continues to change and evolve as people from different countries, languages, and cultures connect to the network.

How and when will the Internet reach the five billion people not currently connected? How will the inputs of these new users change and reshape the Internet? Who's responsible for bringing the Internet to a wider world--governments? NGOs? private companies?--and should this be a priority for international development? An upcoming discussion at the College tackled the cultural, political, technical, and economic future of the Internet.

Ethan Zuckerman, founder of Global Voices and Geekcorps, and Andrew McLaughlin, the head of Google's global policy efforts, discussed "Internet for the Other Five Billion--How and Why?" at 7:30 pm on Tuesday, December 2, in Hooker Auditorium at Mount Holyoke College.