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2023 CONFERENCE
An Evening with CBS’s Robert Costa
The Camden Conference celebrated its return to the Camden Opera House and its 35th year by hosting an evening with CBS News’s Chief Election & Campaign Correspondent Robert Costa, on Saturday evening, July 23.
Global Trade and Politics: Managing Turbulence
February 17-19, 2023
Live from the Camden Opera House, the 36th Camden Conference will highlight the importance of global commerce and how it impacts our everyday lives. Speakers will explore alternative ways in which the interdependence of commerce, global politics and national security could be successfully managed for both competition and cooperation.
Camden Conference Member Online Registration to begin soon for all venues or contact info@camdenconference.org for more information. Public Registration will begin in December 2022. The venues will be the Camden Opera House (live), the Strand Theatre in Rockland, Hutchinson Center in Belfast, and Hannaford Hall at USM in Portland (all streaming). We will also have virtual registration available for at home viewing.
Upcoming Events
Life and Music of Ustad Shafaat Khan (Portland Public Library)- Rescheduled
Ustad Shafaat Trio: “Music to Heal the Soul” (Hannaford Hall @ USM) – RESCHEDULED
Women’s Identity in India: Old Views, New Views (Strand Theatre in Rockland)
Suggested Readings
Baldwin, Richard. The Great Convergence: Information Technology and the New Globalization. Belknap Press: An Imprint of Harvard University Press, 2019. (344 pages)
The new globalization is driven by knowledge crossing borders, not just goods, and its impact is more sudden, more individual, more unpredictable and less controllable; presents challenges to nations as they struggle to maintain reliable growth and social cohesion.
Bernanke, Ben S. 21st Century Monetary Policy: The Federal Reserve from the Great Inflation to COVID-19. W. W. Norton & Company, 2022. (512 pages)
An explanation of the Federal Reserve’s evolution and speculation about its future.

Bernstein, William J. A Splendid Exchange: How Trade Shaped the World. Grove Press, 2009. (496 Pages)
A sweeping narrative of world trade, from 3000 BC to globalization.
Bigelow, Bill and Bob Peterson. Rethinking Globalization: Teaching for Justice in an Unjust World. Rethinking Schools Press, 2002. (402 pages)
Globalization and the social justice issues that are embedded in it, such as child labor, sweatshops, global warming, etc.
Dalio, Ray. Principles for Dealing with the Changing World Order: Why Nations Succeed and Fail. Avid Reader Press/ Simon & Schuster, 2021. (576 pages)
Current political and economic conditions in the world; how to understand and deal with them.
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EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITIES
ESSAY CONTEST WINNERS!
The Camden Conference Education Committee is pleased to announce the winners of the annual Bill Taylor Award for essays related to the 2022 Conference, Europe: Challenged at Home and Abroad.
The winning essays are from Ruth Griffith of Piscataquis Community High School (First Prize), Thomas Lowell of Gould Academy (Second Prize), and Samantha Goodwin of Piscataquis Community High School and Burke MacLeay of Gould (co-winners of the Third Prize). Congratulations!


TESTIMONIALS
The weekend couldn't have been better planned or managed. What a rich and charming experience it was.
….the speakers were all first-rate and were all lovely individuals, and Indira Lakshmanan was everything you could ask for in a moderator. The venue, the peripheral events, the flow of the programming, the questions we got from the audience – all of it was a delight. I think the format, especially, is something I might want to draw on for other conferences I'm involved in… In short, I've been to many, many conferences as this certainly rates as among the very best.
What a phenomenal and timely program. Every speaker and every panel hit it out of the park. While we were reviewing how much my wife and I learned over the weekend, I realized that the speakers themselves very likely learned or developed new ideas themselves. And since they have a far larger impact on the events of the day, their experience from the weekend may have even more value than ours. Thank you to the Camden Conference. Five stars to the Camden Conference organization.
I was impressed by the skills, background and range of speakers … I feel fortunate to have had the opportunity to attend such a conference.

I found this year’s Camden Conference to be absolutely amazing. For me, it was … one continuous increasingly gratifying experience from beginning to end. The panel members were all extremely knowledgeable in their areas of expertise. They were articulate and they all were extremely insightful. They truly were committed to helping all of us become better informed about this chaotic world we live in. The panel represented such a wonderful degree of diversity. More importantly is the fact that such diversity could have differing opinions and find common ground.

I found this the most relevant and meaningful Conference I’ve attended (and I’ve attended a lot). A wonderful, stimulating event in mid-winter Maine. I plan to attend the Conference annually.” Conference attendee
“The audience was very engaged, the questions were excellent, and it was very stimulating to hear people with diverse opinions debate with each other.

Camden is the next Davos!

Thank you again for inviting me to the Camden Conference, which was truly a wonderful experience. As I have told colleagues and friends everywhere, it was one of the best organized and best attended conferences I have ever spoken at. It was also, even more importantly, one of the most interesting. What a great cast of speakers. Please call upon me again if you think I will fit the topic of a future conference.

The conference, in my opinion was as good as I could hope for. It was wonderful. Such a terrific and credentialed and scholarly faculty. It was tremendous. And I learned a huge amount. I might not be so stupid when I hear talk about immigration and consider inserting my “two cents worth” - Thank you for a wonderful educational experience. Learning never hurts

…The Camden Conference just might be the best conference of its type in the United States.

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