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Views On The News - Spring Term
with Paul Mullin
Online
This is a discussion group held on the first and third Fridays of each month covering local, national, and world news. The discussion provides an opportunity to share your observations and opinions on the news and to learn from other participants.
Articles of interest are distributed among the group by email in the week before each meeting, and topics to discuss are selected by the group at the beginning of each meeting.
February 21, 2025
March 7, 21, 2025
April 4, 18, 2025
May 2, 16, 2025
June 6, 2025
10 am - 11:30 am
Paul Mullin is the facilitator for this discussion group.
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The United States and China: Can this relationship be saved?
with Joseph McDonnell
In-Person
The course will examine the complex relationship between the world's two largest economies and explore four possible outcomes: how China wins, how the US wins, how both lose, and how both win.
Thursday, May 29th @ 10:00 A.M.
Location TBD
Joseph W. McDonnell serves as the President of the University of Maine at Farmington. Previously he served as professor of public policy and management at the Muskie School at the University of Southern Maine (USM), and as a dean and provost at USM.
Dr. McDonnell has been a keen observer of China’s development over the last twenty years and has written and lectured on China. In 2013, he founded a Confucius Institute at the University of Southern Maine and served as its director for five years. More recently, he has developed a relationship between the University of Maine at Farmington and the Northeast Normal University in Changchun, China.
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