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Speaking on the crisis of U.S. democracy, Camden Conference, Camden, Maine, Feb. 23
February 23, 2025 @ 9:00 am - 10:00 am
I’ll be a closing keynote at the 38th annual Camden Conference, which has the theme “Democracy Under Threat:
A Global Perspective,” on February 23. My talk is entitled “The Enduring Crisis in U.S. Democracy: How We Got Here and What We Can Do About it?” My talk is followed, at 11am with a panel of all the speakers at this year’s conference, which includes Nobel Peace Prize laureate Maria Ressa and longtime public radio host David Brancaccio.
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.