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Colby holding three-day conference on the state of democracy across the world

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Colby College is hosting a three-day conference focused on V�clav Havel. Havel, who was born in 1936 and died in 2011, was a Czech statesman, writer and dissident. He was chosen as post-Communist Czechoslovakia's first president. The conference is a Maine college's way of creating space for dialogue.

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Colby holding three-day conference on the state of democracy across the world

WATERVILLE, Maine — Colby College is hosting a three-day conference focused on Václav Havel, former president of the Czech Republic and champion of democracy, and how lessons from his lifetime can be used to respond to today’s world challenges.The conference — called Havel and Our Crisis — is scheduled for Sept. 28-30 and will include a variety of roundtable discussions led by well-known speakers and a film screening of “The Art of Dissent” at t…

2 years ago·Bangor, United States

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