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Addressing the Maine Library Association on threats to democracy; Newry, Maine, May 20 (Private)
May 20, 2024 @ 9:00 am - 10:30 pm
I will be the keynote speaker at the 2024 annual conference of the Maine Library Association in Newry, Maine the morning of May 20, This year’s conference focus is on the part that libraries play as centers of democracy within their communities and I’ll be speaking on threats to U.S. democracy and the role of narrative and counter-disinformation efforts in staving off the worst. This is an association conference, so not an open public event.
COLIN WOODARD is a New York Times bestselling author, historian and award-winning journalist. He is the author of seven books that have been translated into a dozen foreign languages and inspired an NBC television drama. He is currently Director of Nationhood Lab at the Pell Center for International Relations and Public Affairs at Salve Regina University. As State and National Affairs Writer at Maine's Portland Press Herald, he won a 2012 George Polk Award and was a finalist for a 2016 Pulitzer Prize. His work has appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, Politico, The Economist, Smithsonian and dozens of other major publications.