Post by Snorri on Oct 2, 2007 23:10:09 GMT
Hi all!
The Secretary-General is pleased to announce that the first Aber mini-conference of the 07/08 academic year will take place this weekend. A booking of the Library Seminar Room (same place as usual) has been confirmed from 13:30 to 17:30 on the upcoming Saturday.
The agenda for the conference is vague at this point in time as the planning has yet to be completed - however we have decided to split the day into two separate parts. The first part will be a training workshop, lasting for about 20-30% of our total time, where we will introduce newcomers to the proceedings of an MUN, as well as to introduce veterans to the Aber MUN rules, which we will adopt in each session, beginning next week. The second part will be a conference, albeit on a larger scale than the usual two-hour sessions.
For the conference, the topic has been set to Agricultural Tariffs. This because there has been a request to do economic topics related to developing countries (in our forums), so if you would like a saying in the choosing of our topics, then registers there and start discussing. At first glance this may sound like a dry and technical topic, but having personally discussed this topic at CUIMUN 2007, I can guarantee you that this is an excellent topic, which may provide many heated arguments between developing and developed countries. Enclosed in the email you will have received is a briefing paper which will prove very helpful as a starting point in your research. Since it proved a complete failure for us to do country-specific research for you in the last session, we hope that you will do this on your own. Please remember that you may reserve a country either at our website or forums - you are not guaranteed your first choice if you do not do so. This time we would also like you to write your own resolution, and although this may sound daunting to some of the new members, I assure you that it is not as hard as it sounds, and we will also continue this topic next Monday to help give you sufficient time.
Members are encouraged to reserve a country prior to the conference - this can be done here, in the comment section of our website (on the page concerning this conference), or by sending an email to me (sim6).
Snorri
Sec-Gen
The Secretary-General is pleased to announce that the first Aber mini-conference of the 07/08 academic year will take place this weekend. A booking of the Library Seminar Room (same place as usual) has been confirmed from 13:30 to 17:30 on the upcoming Saturday.
The agenda for the conference is vague at this point in time as the planning has yet to be completed - however we have decided to split the day into two separate parts. The first part will be a training workshop, lasting for about 20-30% of our total time, where we will introduce newcomers to the proceedings of an MUN, as well as to introduce veterans to the Aber MUN rules, which we will adopt in each session, beginning next week. The second part will be a conference, albeit on a larger scale than the usual two-hour sessions.
For the conference, the topic has been set to Agricultural Tariffs. This because there has been a request to do economic topics related to developing countries (in our forums), so if you would like a saying in the choosing of our topics, then registers there and start discussing. At first glance this may sound like a dry and technical topic, but having personally discussed this topic at CUIMUN 2007, I can guarantee you that this is an excellent topic, which may provide many heated arguments between developing and developed countries. Enclosed in the email you will have received is a briefing paper which will prove very helpful as a starting point in your research. Since it proved a complete failure for us to do country-specific research for you in the last session, we hope that you will do this on your own. Please remember that you may reserve a country either at our website or forums - you are not guaranteed your first choice if you do not do so. This time we would also like you to write your own resolution, and although this may sound daunting to some of the new members, I assure you that it is not as hard as it sounds, and we will also continue this topic next Monday to help give you sufficient time.
Members are encouraged to reserve a country prior to the conference - this can be done here, in the comment section of our website (on the page concerning this conference), or by sending an email to me (sim6).
Snorri
Sec-Gen
