The Rockport Public Library will host their first Camden Conference Community Event of the season on Wednesday, Sept. 16, at 6 p.m. The presentation by Trevor Paul will be an account of the years he spent living and working in Tianjin, China, experiencing the country’s private and public education systems firsthand. Paul will discuss the […]
The Camden Conference is proud to sponsor a screening of TUTU, Sam Pollard's documentary portrait of Archbishop Desmond Tutu, at the 2026 Camden International Film Festival. The screening will take place Friday, September 18 at 8:15 PM at the Strand Theatre in Rockland. Directed by Sam Pollard (MLK/FBI, Citizen Ashe), TUTU draws on decades of […]
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, […]
Save the Date! Join the World Affairs Council of Maine and the Camden Conference for an evening with veteran NPR foreign affairs correspondent, Jackie Northam. Hosted by OceanView at Falmouth, the event will take place at the Lunt Auditorium in Falmouth on Wednesday, November 18 at 6PM. More details to follow.
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 […]