AMUN 2008 Feb 7-9
Topic papers are now posted. Position Papers due Sunday Night, February 3rd.
Registration is now closed.
For current inquiries, please contact external@academymodelun.org
Keynote Speakers:
Joshua Rubenstein
Joshua Rubenstein is the Northeast Regional Director of Amnesty International USA and an Associate of the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies at Harvard University. He has been a staff member of Amnesty International since 1975. His current responsibilities include organizing Amnesty membership throughout New England, New York, and New Jersey.
He is also the author of Soviet Dissidents, Their Struggle for Human Rights and Tangled Loyalties, The Life and Times of Ilya Ehrenburg and the co-editor (with Vladimir Naumov) of Stalin's Secret Pogrom: The Postwar Inquisition of the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee. Mr. Rubenstein received a National Jewish Book Award in the category of East European Studies for Stalin's Secret Pogrom. He is also the co-editor (with Alexander Gribanov) of The KGB File of Andrei Sakharov. His newest book, The Unknown Black Book, the Holocaust in the German-Occupied Soviet Territories, came out in January 2008.
Anjali Bhatia
Anjali Bhatia is currently a sophomore at Duke University. She is current President of Discover Worlds (www.discoverworlds.org), a 501(c)3 non-profit organization that is entirely student run. It works to raise awareness and take action on global and domestic issues using the talents and passions of students. She is creating her own major, which is entitled neuroeconomics. She spent the past summer doing service work in New Orleans and Rwanda.
AMUN Conference Schedule
A Specific dates and times subject to change.
| Thursday February 7th, 2008 | |
|---|---|
| 1:30 - 1:45 | Outside Delegate Registration (Faculty Advisors only) |
| 2:00 - 3:15 | Opening Ceremonies |
| 3:30 - 5:30 | Committee Session A |
| 3:30 - 6:30 | Committee Session B |
| 5:30 - 6:10 | Dinner A |
| 6:30 - 7:10 | Dinner B |
| 6:10 - 8:30 | Committee Session A |
| 7:10 - 8:30 | Committee Session B |
| Friday, February 8th, 2008 | |
| 2:00 - 3:15 | Keynote Speaker Joshua Rubenstein |
| 3:30 - 5:30 | Committee Session B |
| 3:10 - 6:30 | Committee Session A |
| 5:30 -6:10 | Dinner B |
| 6:30 - 7:10 | Dinner A |
| 6:10 - 8:30 | Committee Session B |
| 7:10 - 8:30 | Committee Session A |
| Saturday, February 9th | |
| 9:00 - 9:30 | Light Brunch (Optional) |
| 9:30 - 11:30 | Committee Session A |
| 9:30 - 12:30 | Committee Session B |
| 11:30 - 12:15 | Lunch A |
| 12:30 - 1:15 | Lunch B |
| 12:15 - 3:30 | Committee Session A |
| 1:15 - 3:30 | Committee Session B |
| 3:45 - 4:30 | Closing Ceremonies |