Weekly Update – September 18, 2011
Hello IRSAMers,
I want to welcome each and every one of you to another great year for the International Relations Students’ Association of McGill (IRSAM)! If you are receiving this email, you likely signed up for our weekly listserv at Streetfest or Activities Night, or have been a dedicated member of the club for some time now. Either way, I hope all of you enjoy what IRSAM has to offer this year! Please read below for our club updates this week.
1) First General Meeting
2) 2nd Annual International Relations Simulation (IRSim) at McGill
3) SSUNS Staffing Opportunities
4) McMUN Staffing Opportunities
1) First General Meeting
The first IRSAM meeting for the 2011-2012 academic year will take place this coming Tuesday September 20th at 6:00pm in the SSMU Ballroom (3rd floor). Come meet each member of the club executive and find out about everything our organization does, including our in-house model UN conference, Fall delegations trips to Columbia, Yale, Georgetown and UPenn, staffing opportunities at SSUNS and McMUN, editorial positions for our academic journal, and our external initiatives including Junior Peacemakers and Proyecto Aprender. Refreshments will be served!
2) 2nd Annual International Relations Simulation (IRSim)
Building on an impressive inaugural conference, IRSAM will be once again hosting an in-house conference that will be held entirely on-campus. IRSim will simulate 5 smaller-sized committees and is tentatively scheduled to take place on October 1st and October 2nd. Those interested in attending any delegations trips this year are strongly encouraged to attend IRSim. Registration will open shortly on our website at www.irsam.ca. For any questions, please email Keagan Tafler, VP Delegations at delegations@irsam.ca.
3) SSUNS Staffing Opportunities
SSUNS, our high school-level model UN conference held in November, is now recruiting logistical and committees staff! For more information regarding logistical staff applications (including paging and staff coordinator positions) please email Dana Al Zaben, Chief of Staff at staff@ssuns.org, and for information regarding committees staff applications (including committee directors and crisis staff) please email Rida Malik, USG Committees at committees@ssuns.org. Visit our website at www.ssuns.org for more information about the conference.
4) McMUN Staffing Opportunities
For the past 21 years, IRSAM has been hosting one of the premier collegiate model UN conferences in Montreal called McMUN. Every January, 1400 university students from the best institutions around the world make the trip to Montreal for a epic weekend of debate, discovery and debauchery. That said, it is the 400+ staffers that come from the ranks of McGill University’s finest students that make this experience possible. We are looking for ambitious people to take up the challenge of perpetuating our reputation as the best staff, for the greatest conference on North American soil. If you are interested in this opportunity, please visit our website at www.mcmun.org to see the current available positions and fill out the online application that is due on October 5th. If you have any questions please contact our Chief of Staff, Justin Roy at staff@mcmun.org.
I hope to see all of you at our first meeting on Tuesday! In the mean time, feel free to cruise around our newly designed website at www.irsam.ca to find out more information about our conferences, our journal, the external portfolio and delegations team schedule.
All the best,
Michael