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Osher@Dartmouth Summer Lecture Series will be available to Camden Conference members through the Member Portal

The Summer Lecture Series “Critical Thinking for the Preservation of Our Democracy” presented by Osher@Dartmouth will be streamed on our website through the member portal beginning on July 18. The programs will be available one week after the live events. Members will be able to watch through the portal at their convenience. Recently there has been a sharp decline in critical thinking – listening thoughtfully and evaluating different points of view objectively on an issue. Rather, partisan and often uncivil tribal loyalty is dominating the discourse, and Americans are more and more getting their information and opinions from media vehicles that already agree and reinforce their going-in opinions. Other points of view are ignored. Each session will be a debate where both sides of each issue are covered, thus demonstrating critical thinking in action. For each debate there will be a moderator and two speakers representing different points of view…

Students from Portland High School present their Capstone projects

Two Portland High School students, Mariam Douale and Elisa Membreno, presented their Capstone projects to the Portland Board of Public Education on May 21. Their projects were based on this year’s Conference topic “Is This China’s Century?”, which they attended in February 2019 with their teacher, Troy Crabtree, as participants in the Camden Conference in the Classroom program.

Students at the Camden Conference-2019

Camden Conference announces first independent streaming site in Hanover, New Hampshire

The Camden Conference and the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at Dartmouth are pleased to announce a partnership that will bring the livestream of the 2019 Conference “Is This China’s Century?” to New Hampshire. The Osher Lifelong Learning Institute is a volunteer organization that provides lifelong educational programs year-round for residents in the greater Upper Valley and North Haverhill. It is based on the campus of Dartmouth College in Hanover, NH. The Camden Conference is a renowned global citizens’ forum and one the largest of its kind in the U.S. Now in its 32nd year, the Conference offers an opportunity to learn from and engage with leading experts on issues that affect our lives and our world. It takes place this year February 22-24 live from the Camden Opera House in Camden, ME. In addition to the Conference, the organization presents a year-round series of mostly free talks, films and discussions…