The Camden Conference and the Kennebunk Free Library present Bill Hall, president of the World Affairs Council of Maine at the Kennebunk Free Library on Tuesday, November 16 at 6:00. Hall will be discussing Eastern Europe: Thirty Years After the Fall of the Soviet Union.

Hall will offer a look at this lesser-known but fascinating region of Europe today, 30 years after the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991. It was a momentous time. The Berlin Wall had been torn down; the Soviet Union was dissolving. Democratic capitalism, under American leadership, seemed the global future. Germany moved toward reunification, and the former Soviet republics and satellites in Europe were turned loose to make their way in a completely new international environment. What did American policymakers expect, what actually happened, and where are we now?

Bill Hall is the president of the World Affairs Council of Maine. He was an intelligence officer in the U. S. Air Force and spent nearly 18 years overseas, in Asia and Europe. Hall graduated from Princeton University with a bachelor’s degree in politics and from the University of Virginia with a master’s degree in foreign affairs. He lives with his wife, Nancy, on Peaks Island.

The Camden Conference is an annual world affairs conference held in Camden, Maine. The topic for this year’s Conference, February 25 – 27, is Europe: Challenged at Home and Abroad.

This program is free and wheelchair accessible.  The Kennebunk Free Library is located at 112 Main Street in Kennebunk, Maine. For more information please call 207-985-2173 or email us at kfl@kennebunklibrary.org.