THE CHAMPLAIN SOCIETY THESummer CHAMPLAIN 2018 at College of SOCIETY the Atlantic Summer 2018International at College Affairs of the Atlantic International Affairs JUNE Saturday, June 9 at 2 pm College of the Atlantic’s Commencement Ceremony NORTH LAWN, COA CAMPUS COA celebrates the class of 2018 with speaker President Anote Tong, former leader of Kirabati. A reception will follow in the Newlin Gardens.

JULY Tuesday, July 10 at 9 am Coffee & Conversation: Outdoor Sculpture in the Changing Art Landscape THOMAS S. GATES, JR. COMMUNITY CENTER John Ravenal, executive director of the deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum, will speak about how art can enhance the landscape and how outdoor sculpture can define a place.

Tuesday, July 17 at 9 am Coffee & Conversation: Double Take: The Art of Elizabeth King THOMAS S. GATES, JR. COMMUNITY CENTER Filmmaker Olympia Stone joins Catherine Clinger, COA’s Allan Stone Chair in the Visual Arts, to discuss and show clips from her latest film about the award-winning American sculptor Elizabeth King.

Thursday, July 19 at 5 pm Humanity’s Oldest Stories Illuminated: Frustrated or First-Rated, Rhythm or Riddle ETHEL H. BLUM GALLERY Join artist Stefan Elliott for the opening reception of his latest paintings. The exhibit will run from July 19 until August 24.

Tuesday, July 24 at 9 am Coffee & Conversation: Moral Combat THOMAS S. GATES, JR. COMMUNITY CENTER Dr. Marie Griffith, director of the John C. Danforth Center on Religion and Politics at the Washington University in St. Louis, will join Jamie McKown, COA’s James Russell Wiggins Chair in Government and Polity, to discuss her new book, Moral Combat: How Sex Divided American Christians and Fractured American Politics and how a one-time Christian consensus unraveled and made our political battles over sex (from birth control to abortion and LGBTQ rights) so ferocious and intractable.

*Saturday, July 28 from 6:30-8:30 pm The Champlain Society Reception AMORY HILL, BAR HARBOR The Champlain Society Reception will be hosted by Will and Genie Thorndike at their historic Bar Harbor home overlooking Frenchman Bay. This is the kickoff event for the 2018 Champlain Institute. Formal invitations will be sent to current members for this special gathering. ­­ THE CHAMPLAIN INSTITUTE: INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS Saturday, July 28 through Friday, August 3, 2018

The Champlain Institute is a week-long ideas forum and exchange. return to public service in the cause of peace, working Each summer, COA hosts leaders from around the country and the directly once again to end or prevent a war. Nick has a world to share their expertise on pressing issues of our time. This year’s Bachelor’s degree from Harvard College and a Master’s in conversations will focus on national security, trade disputes, cyber National Security Studies from the Georgetown University warfare, terrorism, where democracy is working, civil wars, Russia, School of Foreign Service. North Korea, and other hotspots around the globe. To register, go to www.coa.edu/ciregister Monday, July 30 at 5 pm Guantanamo and the United States’ Handling of Detainees Saturday, July 28 at 5pm THOMAS S. GATES, JR. COMMUNITY CENTER A Conversation with Ambassador Susan E. Rice Neal Katyal, the former Acting Solicitor General of the THOMAS S. GATES, JR. COMMUNITY CENTER United States, focuses on appellate and complex litigation. Former National Security Advisor for President Obama At the age of 47, he has argued more Supreme Court cases and U.S. Permanent Representative to the , in U.S. history than has any minority attorney, recently Ambassador is the opening keynote of this year’s breaking the record held by Thurgood Marshall. As Acting Institute. Ambassador Rice is currently a Distinguished Solicitor General of the United States, Mr. Katyal argued Visiting Research Fellow at the School of International several major Supreme Court cases involving a variety of Service, American University, and a Non-Resident Senior issues, such as his successful defense of the constitutionality Fellow at the Belfer Center for Science and International of the Voting Rights Act of 1965. Mr. Katyal served as a law Affairs at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government. professor for over two decades at Georgetown University Ambassador Rice has served two Presidents in senior Law Center, and has also served as a visiting professor at positions in National Security policy-making over the span both Harvard and Yale law schools. of almost 25 years. She has deep knowledge of all aspects of National Security decision-making, the role of the President Tuesday, July 31 at 9 am and the NSC, as well as military, defense and intelligence US-EU Relations policy. THOMAS S. GATES, JR. COMMUNITY CENTER Ambassadors Bill Eacho, C. Boyden Gray, and Jim Monday, July 30 at 9 am Lowenstein will discuss the current state of US-European Hacking, Informatsionnaya, and the Grey Zone: How Technology is Union relations. Ambassador C. Boyden Gray is a founding Shaping a New Global Competition among Great Powers partner of the D.C.-based law firm, Boyden Gray & THOMAS S. GATES, JR. COMMUNITY CENTER Associates LLP. In the 1980s, he served as legal counsel for Nick Dowling served in the Pentagon and the Clinton White Vice President George Bush, and counsel to the Presidential House as Director for European Affairs on the NSC Staff Task Force on Regulatory Relief, chaired by Vice President where he helped coordinate US policy to end the wars in Bush. Former US Ambassador to Austria, Bill Eacho became Bosnia and Kosovo. Since government, Nick has been CEO a Visiting Professor of the Practice at the Sanford School of of IDS International, a firm that helps the US government Public Policy at Duke University in 2014. Amb. Lowenstein deal with conflict and complexity in the 21st century, is vice chairman and co-founder of the French-American working on issues ranging from cyber warfare to security Foundation in New York and Paris, the chairman of the assistance. Nick is also active in policy circles through Advisory Council of the American Library in Paris, a government and think tank advisory boards, including member of the Council on Foreign Relations, and a French membership in the Atlantic Council Strategy Consortium, Legion of Honour Officer. Amb. Lowenstein is a former the Army Education Advisory Committee, and the Council Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for European Affairs and on Foreign Relations. He remains active in politics, Ambassador to Luxembourg. supporting Democratic candidates for national office with fundraising and policy advice. Eventually, he hopes to Tuesday, July 31 at 5 pm Thursday, August 2 at 5 pm Walls or Bridges: What will Shape American Greatness in the 21st Violence and Elections After Civil Wars Century? THOMAS S. GATES, JR. COMMUNITY CENTER THOMAS S. GATES, JR. COMMUNITY CENTER Sarah Z. Daly is an Assistant Professor of Political Science Tony Blinken, currently the co-founder and managing and Faculty Fellow at the Kellogg Institute for International director of WestExec Advisors, a strategic consultancy, has Studies at the University of Notre Dame. Her research held senior foreign policy positions in two administrations— focuses on civil wars and peace-building, international including as Deputy Secretary of State in the Obama security, and ethnic politics with a primary regional focus Administration, the nation’s number two diplomat. Mr. on Latin America. Her book, Organized Violence after Civil Blinken helped to lead diplomacy in the fight against ISIL, War: The Geography of Recruitment in Latin America, explores the rebalance to Asia, and the global refugee crisis, while why armed organizations remilitarize or demilitarize in building bridges to the innovation community. Mr. Blinken the aftermath of peace accords. She has conducted field also served as Assistant to the President and Principal research in Colombia, Ecuador, Chile, Brazil, and Israel, is Deputy National Security Advisor to President Obama, a Term Member of the Council on Foreign Relations, and chaired the Deputies Committee, the administration’s has spent time at the World Bank, Organization of American principal forum for deliberating foreign policy, and was States, and Peace Research Institute of Oslo. National Security Advisor to Vice President Biden. Friday, August 3 at 9 am Wednesday, August 1 at 9 am Liberty and Security Today Security in the Indo-Asian Region THOMAS S. GATES, JR. COMMUNITY CENTER THOMAS S. GATES, JR. COMMUNITY CENTER Karen Greenberg, an expert on national security, terrorism, Former United States Navy Admiral Jonathan W. Greenert’s and civil liberties, is Director of the Center on National expertise is in the Asia-Pacific, “where maritime, nuclear, Security at Fordham University School of Law. She is the and other critical issues challenge America and its author of The Least Worst Place: Guantanamo’s First 100 Days, partners.” Admiral Greenert served as the 30th Chief of which was selected as one of the best books of 2009 by The Naval Operations from 2011 to 2015. He was previously and Slate.com. Her newest book, Rogue 36th Vice Chief of Naval Operations and held a variety of Justice: The Making of the Security State, explores the war on command positions. He is the recipient of various awards, terror’s impact on justice and law in America. She is a including the Distinguished Service Medal, the Defense permanent member of the Council on Foreign Relations. Superior Service Medal and the Legion of Merit. Friday, August 3 at 5 pm Wednesday, August 1 at 1 pm US-Middle Eastern Relations Past and Future On the Ground: Listening to Afghan Women’s Voices THOMAS S. GATES, JR. COMMUNITY CENTER THOMAS S. GATES, JR. COMMUNITY CENTER The Honorable George Mitchell served as the U.S. Special Eliza Griswold is the author of The Tenth Parallel, which Envoy for Middle East Peace from January 2009 to May explores the fraught space where Christianity and Islam 2011. He was a US Senator for fifteen years and served meet in Africa and Asia. She is an award-winning journalist on the Finance, Veterans Affairs, and Environment and whose work on Boko Haram, Pakistan’s Waziristan Agency, Public Works Committees as well as serving as Senate and Syrian Refugees has appeared in The Atlantic, The New Majority Leader. From 1996 to 2000, he was Independent Yorker, The New York Times Magazine, and Harper’s Magazine, Chairman of the Northern Ireland Peace Talks. Under among others. She currently teaches at the Arthur L. his leadership, the Good Friday Agreement, a historic Carter Journalism Institute of New York University as a accord ending decades of conflict, was agreed to by the Distinguished Writer in Residence. governments of Ireland and the United Kingdom, and the political parties of Northern Ireland. In 2000 and 2001, Thursday, August 2 at 9 am at the request of President Clinton, Prime Minister Ehud Is Democracy Failing? Barak, and Chairman Yasser Arafat, Senator Mitchell THOMAS S. GATES, JR. COMMUNITY CENTER served as Chairman of an International Fact-Finding Ted Widmer is a senior fellow at the Carnegie Council for Committee on violence in the Middle East. The Committee’s Ethics in International Affairs. Dr. Widmer served as a recommendation is widely known as The Mitchell Report. speechwriter and senior advisor to former President Bill Clinton from 1997 to 2001 and as a senior advisor to former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton from 2012 to 2013. He was formerly the director of The John W. Kluge Center at the Library of Congress and the director of the John Carter Brown Library at Brown University. The author of many books, Dr. Widmer is a frequent contributor to The New York Times, The New York Observer, Politico, The Boston Globe, and The American Scholar. THE CHAMPLAIN SOCIETY THESummer CHAMPLAIN 2018 at College of SOCIETY the Atlantic Summer 2018International at College Affairs of the Atlantic International Affairs AUGUST Tuesday, August 7 at 9 am Coffee & Conversation: Current Climate in the US House of Representatives THOMAS S. GATES, JR. COMMUNITY CENTER COA alumna and ’s 1st District US Congresswoman Chellie Pingree ‘79 and COA alumna Elspeth Flemings ‘06, current director of Healthy Acadia and former representative for Bar Harbor in the Maine House, will discuss what it is like to be in the US House of Representatives in this current political climate.

Tuesday, August 14 at 9 am Coffee & Conversation: Pantsuit Nation THOMAS S. GATES, JR. COMMUNITY CENTER Libby Chamberlain, founder of Pantsuit Nation (and nearby Maine resident), will discuss the intersection of online community and offline activism and how her popular Facebook Group ignited a wave of civic engagement after the 2016 presidential election. She’ll talk with Lynn Boulger, COA’s Dean of Institutional Advancement, about the importance of storytelling within grassroots movements. Copies of Pantsuit Nation, edited by Chamberlain and published in 2017, will be available for purchase and signing.

Tuesday, August 21 at 9 am Coffee & Conversation: Masterpiece: WGBH’s National Programs THOMAS S. GATES, JR. COMMUNITY CENTER John Bredar joined WGBH in 2013 as Vice President of National Programming, where he has oversight of WGBH’s highly acclaimed prime-time series including American Experience, Nova, Frontline, Masterpiece, and Antiques Roadshow. He will join COA trustee Will Thorndike for a discussion of the process behind the selection of the Boston station’s popular programs.

Tuesday, August 28 at 9 am Coffee & Conversation: Saving our Oceans THOMAS S. GATES, JR. COMMUNITY CENTER David Shaw, founder of several successful science-based companies, trustee of the National Park Foundation, chair-emeritus of The Jackson Laboratory, and co-chair of the Aspen Institute High Seas Initiative, will join Sean Todd, COA’s Steven K. Katona Chair in Marine Sciences to discuss ocean conservation.

SEPTEMBER Thursday, September 13 at 5 pm Share the Harvest Farm Dinner BEECH HILL FARM COA’s beautiful Beech Hill Farm is the setting for a four-course dinner catered by Havana Restaurant. All proceeds benefit Share the Harvest, a COA student-led program supplying organic produce to local food pantries. Tickets at coa.edu/ sharetheharvest