The Camden Conference, Camden, Maine
We are pleased to present our first Camden Conference Highlights Video, featuring the 2011 Camden Conference, The Challenges of Asia.
Fostering informed discourse on world affairs through year-round community events, public and student engagement, and an annual weekend conference.
• February 22-24, 2013 •
"The Middle East -- What Next?"
Featured CamCast Video
Watch the address, “Reinventing Fire: A Business-Led Clean Energy Solution for Security and Prosperity”, given by Amory Lovins, Co-Founder and Chief Scientist of the Rocky Mountain Institute, at the recent 25th Annual Camden Conference.
Community Events
Coffee House in Rockland
Event Date: Tuesday May 22, 2012
Join a discussion group on Tuesday mornings from 9:30 am to 11:30 am for some free-wheeling conversation covering a multitude of topics. Every 4th Tuesday, Peter Muth joins facilitator Bill Newman for a discussion of globalization. This ongoing discussion group has continued to thrive for four years. A core group of a dozen or so [...]
Featured Conference Speaker
Former Undersecretary of State and Professor at Harvard’s Kennedy School, Nicholas Burns, served as Moderator and Speaker at the 2012 Camden Conference. See America’s Future Global Challenges and all other Conference presentations, here.
Recent Conference News
Early 2013 Booklist
Posted on Wednesday March 21, 2012
The Camden Conference Program Committee has issued an early list of recommended reading for the 2013 Camden Conference, A New Arab Awakening: What Next in the Middle East? The Committee’s first choice is David Fromkin’s A Peace to End All Peace. 20th Anniversary Edition: The Fall of the Ottoman Empire and Creation of the Modern [...]
2012 CamCast Videos
Posted on Friday March 2, 2012
The Camden Conference is pleased to announce that the Speaker Presentations from the 25th Annual Camden Conference: The U.S. in a 21st Century World: Do we have what it takes? are now available! Click here to view them through our website.
Conference begins tonight
Posted on Friday February 17, 2012
The 25th annual Camden Conference convenes this evening at 8:00PM with a keynote address by Governor Bill Richardson and continues through Sunday afternoon with an impressive roster of speakers. The Camden Opera House is now sold-out, but seats are still available at all satellite venues: The Strand, Rockland, The Grand, Ellsworth, and The Hutchinson Center, [...]
Conference Roster Complete
Posted on Monday January 23, 2012
The Camden Conference has filled out its roster of speakers for the February 17-19, 2012 Conference with the addition of Colonel Larry Wilkerson, former Chief of Staff to Secretary of State Colin Powell. Wilkerson is now a visiting professor at the College of William and Mary and a Professional Lecturer in the Honors Program at [...]
Earn CLEs at the Conference!
Posted on Wednesday December 28, 2011
We are pleased to announce that the 25th Annual Camden Conference has been approved for Maine Continuing Legal Education Credits. Join us February 17-19, 2012 live from the historic Camden Opera House or from one of our satellite venues in Belfast, Ellsworth or Rockland and earn up to 8.3 CLEs. General Registration is now open [...]
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Educator's Guide
Camden Conference materials designed for use in the classroom.
Conference Heritage
In honor of our 25th year, we are pleased to present this series of short accounts of key moments from the history of the Camden Conference.
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Live streaming in 2012 to The Grand in Ellsworth!
For Additional Foreign Policy Events in the Midcoast Area, please click here for the Mid-Coast Forum on Foreign Relations.
For events in the Portland area, please click here for the Center for Global Humanities at the University of New England
