Specialized Committees
Australia Under Duress!
Australia finds itself under duress! The country faces various environmental challenges: raging wildfires, devastating droughts, ferocious floods, and colossal cyclones. At the same time, the cost of living in Australia has ballooned precipitously since the Covid-19 pandemic. Set in May 2025, delegates will assume the personas of real-life Australian senators, and in doing so, must confront these dual crises. Will you change Australia for the better, or legislate her ever further into catastrophe?
Behind the Magic: The Inaugural Disney Summit
Welcome to the Happiest Place on Earth! Top executives from across the vast Disney portfolio will meet iconic Disney stars and creatives in the first Disney Summit. With the complications of running a corporation worth nearly $2 billion, leaders, actors, and directors alike will come together to tackle the company’s most pressing issues. Amid heated controversies, the Walt Disney empire needs to solve complicated concerns like contentious media content and fierce competition with rival corporations. Can the world’s most famous media corporation “just keep swimming” and go “to infinity and beyond,” or will it decline in the face of real-world storybook villains?
International Council on Algorithmic Ethics (ICAE)
In a world where artificial intelligence evolves faster than the rules meant to contain it, the line between truth and fabrication grows perilously thin. This committee gathers an unlikely constellation of tech magnates, state representatives, ethicists, and media voices to navigate the shifting terrain of the digital age. Delegates will confront the challenges of misinformation, information integrity, and media responsibility in a world shaped by algorithmic influence. Questions of data privacy, ownership, and accountability will drive discussions on how to preserve democratic discourse in a society governed by digital platforms. Delegates must determine whether technology will remain a tool for truth, an instrument of manipulation, or both.
Copernican Revolution
It’s a clash of religious doctrine, scientific institutions, and a rejection of the Aristotelian worldview that dictated higher education for centuries. Nicolaus Copernicus’ heliocentric theory of orbit threatens the accepted world order. The late 16th and early 17th centuries’ leading intellectuals are all absorbed in the debate: could the Sun possibly be the center of the universe, not the Earth? There are a few points of contention to consider. Both the Catholic and Protestant Churches debate this new theory, which seems to be going against the Bible itself—a major religious and philosophical conflict. Then, there are the political and scientific ramifications to consider; mathematicians and astronomers race to prove or disprove Copernicus’ empirical observations, political figures weigh in with their opinions, and the question of what theory to teach in universities arises. It’s an intellectual debate among the educated classes for now, but the Copernican theory promises to upend everything that is considered common knowledge.
The kingdom of joseon
The Kingdom of Joseon has become more factionalized than ever, with Westerners, Southerners, and Northerners each vying for their place in power. Set in 1622, this committee places delegates into the varying roles of royalty, members of court, scholars, nobles, military officers, and more. It will be up to this committee to tackle important questions of state, including but not limited to, the legitimacy and succession of the throne, foreign relations with the Ming and Later Jin, as well as State positions on religion and Confucian teachings.