Taking part in your first MUN conference can be a daunting experience. To make it easier, the 2020 Secretariat have put together a list of the 5 most common mistakes made by first-time delegates.
With the conference tomorrow, we thought we’d introduce you to your brilliant committee leaders! Each committee will have one Main Chair, one or two Co-Chairs, and potentially an Assistant Director as well. The Main Chair will be your main point of contact and will be leading the Dais - here’s a few fun details about a few of them, so you can get to know them a little bit better before the conference!
It’s almost conference weekend! These are exciting times, and we know you’ve been busy drafting up your opening speeches, so here are a few final reminders to help you prepare for your arrival and make that first committee session go smoothly.
We are super excited to be welcoming you all to OG’s 2025 Home Conference in just a few weeks! Whilst we hope you are all excited too, you may have some queries or concerns, so this blog post is intended to give you some answers. If there is anything you are unsure about that is not addressed in this blog post, have a look through the rest of the OG website, and if that fails, you can email info@oxfordglobal.org. We’re always happy to help! Lots more information about conference logistics will be found within the Delegate Handbook, which you’ll receive at registration.
Hello Delegates!
A fundamental part of being a representative at the United Nations (and, thus, at a MUN Conference) is an awareness of global events. Given that the theme of OG’s 2025 Home Conference is ‘The Spirit of Inquiry’, we think it is important to stay inquisitive about international news. From October, we will discuss three articles, with related questions to allow you to inquire about what is going on worldwide.
Ahead of the conference, we thought it would be useful to dive a bit deeper into our two special crisis committees. This second post takes us into the world of Narnia, as we explore the topic for this year’s fantasy crisis committee. In fact, you don’t have to go far to find Narnia in the city of Oxford, as C. S. Lewis wrote the books while he was teaching at Magdalen College in the 1950s, and was supposedly inspired by a lamppost, lion door carving, and gilded fauns in St. Mary’s Passage next to the Radcliffe Camera.
