The Rockport Public Library will host its next Camden Conference Community Event of the season on Wednesday, October 21, at 6 p.m. Stephen Harder, Vice-President of the Camden Conference, will discuss the special history and status of Taiwan, its importance in US China relations, and the possible shape of a crisis with global implications. Stephen […]
The Mid-Maine Global Forum, in collaboration with the Waterville Public Library, will host their first Camden Conference Community Event of the season on Friday, October 30, at 12:00 p.m at the Chase Forum (150 Main Street, Waterville, Maine 04901). This talk traces how the modern law of the sea took shape, what it has achieved, […]
Image by Vic Goldsmith Beyond the American Century: A New World Order? considers a possible end and a new beginning. Poetry has a great deal to say about ends and beginnings and what it means, both intellectually and emotionally, to be On the Brink. We look back and forward as the ten selected poems do, […]
The Camden Public Library, as a part of the Camden Conference Community Events Series, welcomes Ezgi Yildiz for a presentation that traces how the modern law of the sea took shape, what it has achieved, and why it now faces growing strain. This event will take place in person only in the Picker Room at […]
The Falmouth Memorial Library will host its next Camden Conference Community Event of the season on Saturday November 14, at 11:00 a.m. What do Europeans think of Americans in the age of Donald Trump? While we know a good deal about the negative sentiments they have toward the US, Trump, and the US government during […]
The Scarborough Public Library will host its next Camden Conference Community Event of the season on Tuesday November 17, at 6:00 p.m. The transatlantic relationship has been the cornerstone of global security since 1945. For decades the United States and its European allies stood shoulder to shoulder against external threats, from Soviet expansionism during the […]
NPR foreign affairs correspondent Jackie Northam's career path has led her through areas of open conflict and geopolitical upheaval across Europe, Asia, and Africa. The World Affairs Council of Maine and the Camden Conference will present An Evening with Jackie Northam on Wednesday, November 18 at the Lunt Auditorium, hosted by OceanView at Falmouth, 74 […]
The Mid-Maine Global Forum, in collaboration with the Waterville Public Library, will host their second Camden Conference Community Event of the season on Friday, November 20, at 12:00 p.m at the Chase Forum (150 Main Street, Waterville, Maine 04901). The Cold War was the dominant force in world affairs for nearly a half-century after World […]
For most of history, the oceans were treated as a lawless frontier. Over the last century that changed. A series of treaties, culminating in the 1982 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, produced one of the most ambitious experiments in global cooperation ever attempted: shared rules for navigation, fishing, resource extraction, and […]
The Falmouth Memorial Library will host its next Camden Conference Community Event of the season on Saturday December 12, at 11:00 a.m. The transatlantic relationship has been the cornerstone of global security since 1945. For decades the United States and its European allies stood shoulder to shoulder against external threats, from Soviet expansionism during the […]
The Camden Public Library will host its next Camden Conference Community Event of the season on Tuesday, December 15, at 6:30 p.m. With China Outpacing the USA in Soft Power, what is Maine’s Impact & Responsibility? Combining on-the-ground experience serving as United Nations partnership officer in Beijing with global developments, presenter Kate Hotchkiss Taylor explores […]
The Mid-Maine Global Forum, in collaboration with the Waterville Public Library, will host their next Camden Conference Community Event of the season on Wednesday, December 16, at 12:00 p.m at the Chase Forum (150 Main Street, Waterville, Maine 04901). This talk will focus on how environmental policy is formulated and provide an overview of current […]