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Committees

Black Plague

The Black Plague Committee transports delegates to mid-14th century Europe as the devastating pandemic known as the Black Death sweeps across continents, claiming millions of lives and reshaping societies forever. Delegates will represent the rulers, religious leaders, physicians, merchants, and influential figures of the era, confronting the immense challenges posed by an unknown and rapidly spreading disease. Faced with limited medical knowledge, economic collapse, social unrest, and political instability, delegates must balance public health, governance, trade, and humanitarian concerns while making critical decisions that will determine the survival and future of their states. This committee will test delegates’ crisis management, diplomacy, and creativity in one of history’s deadliest pandemics.

McMaster sits on the traditional territory shared between the Haudenosaunee confederacy and the Anishinabe nations, which was acknowledged in the Dish with One Spoon wampum belt. That wampum uses the symbolism of a dish to represent the territory, and one spoon to represent that the people are to share the resources of the land and only take what they need.

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