General Assembly

Culture for Sale?
When Heritage Becomes a Headline

Director: Naveen Siddiqui

Specialized

City Limits, Global Stakes:
The Global Parliament of Mayors, 2026

Director: Noelle Morey

History Hit Shuffle:
Summit in the Emperor’s New Timeline

Director: Caitlin Deal

These mayors mean business! A representative governance of the world’s local leaders, the Global Parliament of Mayors has been an official United Nations partner since 2007. Informing international decisions and working with key players on the global stage, the GPM serves as a platform to uplift local voices and amplify them to the world, envisioning a brighter future for the 4.2 billion people living in our world’s cities.

Delegates will represent the various cities incorporated into the GPM as they navigate the challenges of a changing metropolitan world - microclimate change, evolving industries, inadequate institutions - all through the lens of the individual mayors who pave the way. Designed as a mix of traditional general assembly procedures and dynamic crisis updates, this committee tasks delegates to transform into those who lead the international community to a better tomorrow, showing us what it truly means to think globally and act locally. Delegates, the urban world is in your hands!

Dearest delegates, your History Hit Shuffle and there’s a Crisis in the Emperor’s New Timeline! In this specialized and fast-paced committee, you will step into the shoes of world leaders — but not in the world you know. This is an alternate timeline where history took unexpected turns: dynasties never fell, empires rose from ruin, unlikely alliances formed, and civilizations developed in startling new directions.

As international tensions simmer beneath a fragile global balance, each delegate will represent a powerful nation, empire, coalition, or prominent stakeholder with its own unique resources, ideologies, and past. The world stage is shaped by unfamiliar histories and evolving threats. Delegates will be tasked with navigating diplomacy, defense, innovation, espionage, and survival in a landscape where nothing is quite as it seems — and everything is subject to change.

This is a crisis spec: expect unpredictable developments, high-stakes decision-making, and dynamic shifts in power. Intrigue, creativity, and strategic thinking will be key to shaping the new world order — or watching/making it fall apart. The timeline is fractured. The future is yours to forge!

Crisis Committees

Sunline Entertainment: Korean-Pop Board of Directors

Director: Clara Roman

Defining Democracy:
Ross Perot, Charisma, and Conspiracy, 1992

Director: Tessa Jones

It’s Just One of Those Days:
The Pandemonium of Woodstock ‘99

Director: Hazel Parent

Team Rocket Blasting Off Again:
The Kanto Recovery Council

Directors: Alonzo Rojas & Douglas Plummer

Ad-hoc of the Secretary General

Directors: Hanan Levis-Betancourt

In a new trend of capitalizing off the recent hallyu wave, there have been talks of new entertainment companies. With a world-wide market, and millions of teenage girls to feed fantasies to, the potential basis for profit is almost guaranteed. This is not without hardships though as everything from managing artist controversies and contract disputes to navigating scandals, media backlash, and global market expansion, our new company will demand strategic thinking, strong PR instincts, and an eye for both innovation and image. Every move affects not just profits, but fan loyalty, artist well-being, and the reputation of the entire industry.

In Sun Line Entertainment, we will pride ourselves with managing not only Kpop groups, but the cultural force they have become. In this committee, delegates will be picking trainees, creating concepts to market, releasing music, and promoting the idols all while dealing with the public's perceptions. Be prepared to face all the negatives and positives of the industry in order to change them for the better.

In a political system dominated by two entrenched parties, the Reform Party emerged as a populist, anti-establishment force that dared to dream differently. This crisis committee places delegates at the heart of a grassroots insurgency led by Ross Perot—eccentric billionaire, short king media personality, and unlikely political legend. Delegates must organize and evolve a loosely defined movement into a competitive third party amid the turbulent landscape of 1990s American politics.

Beginning in the 1992 election cycle, delegates will tackle campaign infrastructure from scratch, building alliances with civic groups, media outlets, and coalitions while determining internal party management. Delegates will contend with Perot’s magnetic but unpredictable leadership, occasional paranoia, and a political press hungry for scandal. They must secure PAC money, court Democratic and Republican defectors, and connect with powerful industries—all while managing the optics of a “centrist” movement in a deeply divided country. The question is not just can the Reform Party survive—but can it win and alter the political landscape of the USA forever?

In July 1999, organizers of the original 1969 Woodstock festival, known for being a “celebration of peace, love, and music” aimed to emulate their success by hosting another rendition in Rome, New York. However, it was marred by a series of problems, including environmental issues, inadequate sanitation, security concerns, violence, and widespread vandalism and property damage. Although many media outlets blamed this chaos on the rowdy musicians performing at the venue, who were accused of instigating crowds, many of these issues can be tied back to failures in proper planning and safety by the event organizers. The festival, with its lasting reputation of being a disaster, is often cited as a turning point in the history of music festivals, highlighting potential challenges of large-scale events and the importance of properly vetting these issues.

Delegates will serve as a variety of figures involved with running the event, from organizers to musicians to media personalities. Will delegates be able to work together to prevent some of these catastrophes before they escalate to a point of major crisis? Or, will the festival fail to capture the original ideals of Woodstock and literally burn to the ground?

In the wake of Team Rocket’s most devastating campaign yet, the Kanto region lies fractured, its cities under martial law, Pokémon Centers seized, citizens held hostage region-wide and the region’s only champions scattered. The criminal syndicate has toppled the traditional gym system, occupied key Indigo League facilities, and now pursues their most dangerous ambition yet: the creation of the strongest Pokémon ever. With Johto and other regions nervously watching from across the borders, a desperate emergency summit has been called. Composed of Gym Leaders, Elite Four veterans, renowned Pokémon Professors, and iconic trainers from Kanto and Johto alike, the Kanto Recovery Kouncil is set on reclaiming the region, rebuilding its defenses, and halting Team Rocket’s expanding dominion before it swallows the Pokémon world whole.

As delegates of this high-stakes council, participants must navigate the ethical and strategic chaos of a post-invasion Kanto. Should the Master Ball be located and destroyed… or maybe even used? Can peace be brokered with rogue Rocket defectors? Is the militarization of Pokémon training justified in the face of totalitarian control? With Rocket’s power looming, the fate of both humanity and Pokémon hangs in the balance. Delegates will not only engage in diplomacy, strategy, and war planning, but confront a deeper question at the heart of this crisis: what kind of world do we want Pokémon to fight for, and who has the right to command it? And most importantly, who’s that Pokémon?