2013 Camden Conference Program

2013 Conference Program

The 26th Annual Camden Conference, The Middle East - What Next? takes place February 22-24, 2013, live from the Camden Opera House and simulcast to satellite venues, the Strand Theatre in Rockland, the Hutchinson Center in Belfast, and the Grand in Ellsworth.

The Conference convenes on Friday evening, February 22nd, with the keynote address at 8PM, and continues on Saturday, February 23rd from 8:30AM – 5PM and again on Sunday, February 24th from 9:00AM-12:30PM.

26th ANNUAL CAMDEN CONFERENCE

THE MIDDLE EAST – WHAT NEXT? February 22-24, 2013

The provisional Program, including order of speakers and topics addressed, appears below, and is subject to change as it becomes further developed. For information on Conference Speakers, please click here.

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 22

• 8:00 PM Welcome and Dedication
  Bland Banwell, President, Camden Conference
• Keynote Address - Robin Wright
  Journalist, Foreign Policy Analyst, Author of three recent books on the Arab Awakening, Political Islam, and Iran.

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 23

• 8:30AM-4:30PM
• Marwan Muasher, Broad aspects of the Arab Awakening
  Former Jordanian Ambassador to Israel and the U.S.; Deputy Prime Minister; Forthcoming book on the Arab Awakening
• Marc Lynch, Egypt and Political Islam
  Associate Professor of Political Science and International Affairs—George Washington University Director of Institute for Middle East Studies
• Joshua Landis, Syria and Regional Spillover/Conflicts
  Director, Center for Middle East Studies and Associate Professor at University of Oklahoma
• Q & A

• Greg Gause, Saudi Arabia, Sunni/Shia Issues, and Regional Geo-Strategic Clashes
  Professor and Chairman of Political Science Department, University of Vermont
• Shai Feldman, Israel’s Situation amid Regional Change and Conflict, especially with Iran
  Director, Center for Middle East Studies, Brandeis University
• Hosein Mousavian, Iran and Related Issues
  Former Editor, Iranian Ambassador, and Spokesman for the Iranian Team working on Nuclear
  Issues. Now at Princeton University
• Q & A

SUNDAY, February 24, 9:00AM-12:30PM

• Barbara Ibrahim, The Human Face of the Arab Awakening, especially Women’s Role
  Professor of Sociology & Director, Center for Civic Engagement, American University in Cairo
• Larry Pope, U.S. Policies and Prospects in a Turbulent Middle East
  Former Ambassador to Chad, Political Advisor to General Anthony Zinni in Central Command, and Charge d’Affaires in Tripoli, Libya
• Q & A. – Final Panel of all Speakers
• MODERATOR – Nicholas Burns, Former Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs as well as
  U.S. Ambassador to NATO and to Greece, Consul General in Jerusalem, and State Department
  Spokesman. Now, Professor in the Practice of Diplomacy and International Politics at the Kennedy
  School, Harvard University.