• Education in the People’s Republic of China [Rockport]

    Rockport Public Library 1 Limerock St., Rockport

    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 […]

  • US Policy in the Middle East: Seven Months into a Four-Week War [Rockland]

    Rockland Public Library 80 Union Street, Rockland, ME, United States

    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 […]

  • Taiwan in War and Peace [Rockport]

    Rockport Public Library 1 Limerock St., Rockport

    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 […]

  • Who Governs the Oceans? The Law of the Sea in a Shifting World Order [Waterville]

    Chase Forum 150 Maine St, Waterville

    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, […]

  • On the Brink: A Poetry Session [Cushing]

    Cushing Public Library 39 Cross Road, Cushing, United States

    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, […]

  • No Going Back: Europe and America at a Crossroads [Scarborough]

    Scarborough Public Library 48 Gorham Road, Scarborough, ME, United States

    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 […]

  • The View from Abroad: An Evening with Jackie Northam [Falmouth]

    Lunt Auditorium Ocean View, 74 Lunt Rd., Falmouth, ME, United States

    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 […]

  • The Cold War in History and Current Conflicts [Waterville]

    Chase Forum 150 Maine St, Waterville

    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 […]

  • Who Governs the Oceans? The Law of the Sea in a Shifting World Order [ZOOM]

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    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 […]