Make plans now to join us at the Camden Opera House on Friday, August 28 at 7:30 p.m. for An Evening with Judy Woodruff, presented by the Camden Conference. A trailblazer for women in journalism and an icon of in-depth reporting, Judy Woodruff spent five decades covering American politics — from the Carter White House to […]
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 […]
The Rockland Public Library will host its next Camden Conference Community Event of the season on Thursday, October 1, at 6 p.m. Despite numerous assurances early on that the conflict with Iran would be a short one, it has now stretched on for nearly seven months with few signs that there will be a clear […]
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 […]