UCA to host Arkansas Model U.N. Conference

UCA will host the 42nd annual Arkansas Model United Nations (AMUN) Conference at the Brewer-Hegeman Conference Center and Donald W. Reynolds Performance Hall this Friday and Saturday, Nov. 16 and 17.

The AMUN Conference, which is coordinated by the UCA Department of Political Science, involves the participation of about 400 high school students and faculty advisors from Arkansas, Oklahoma, Tennessee, and Mississippi. Model United Nations (MUN) students from UCA, Hendrix College, and the University of Arkansas at Little Rock serve as staff for the two-day conference, during which high school students simulate debates, discussions, negotiations, and votes in various UN bodies, including the Security Council, UNICEF, and International Court of Justice.

The opening session of the conference will take place in Reynolds Performance Hall on Friday at 1 p.m. The keynote speaker will be Andr?s Chao, Consul General of the Mexican Consulate in Little Rock.

For more information, please contact Mark Mullenbach in UCA’s Department of Political Science at 450-5690 or markm@uca.edu.