UCA to host United Nations Day

Faculty, staff, and students are invited to participate in UCA’s third annual “United Nations Day” luncheon and speech, which will take place on Friday, Oct. 26 at 11:30 a.m. in the Brewer-Hegeman Conference Center. This year’s event commemorates the 62nd anniversary of the founding of the U.N. after World War II.

The keynote speaker will be Jeff Laurenti, Senior Fellow and Director of Foreign Policy Programs at The Century Foundation in New York City. Laurenti also currently serves on the board of directors of the United Nations Association of the United States of America (UNA-USA) and is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR). Previous keynote speakers have included Ambassador Anne Patterson, U.S. Permanent Representative to the U.N., and Ambassador Pierre Prosper, U.S. Ambassador At-Large for War Crimes Issues.

The event is sponsored by the UCA Model United Nations (MUN) organization, Department of Political Science-AMUN program, Arkansas Committee on Foreign Relations (ACFR), and the Central Arkansas Chapter of the UNA-USA.

The luncheon is free, but RSVP to Mark Mullenbach, UCA Department of Political Science, at markm@uca.edu, by Monday, Oct. 22.