Conference Directory · Texas & the South
The South’s Model UN map is really two circuits. Texas runs on HAMUN in Houston, the oldest high school conference in the Southwest, plus UT Austin’s CTMUN and Rice’s campus conference. The Southeast stretches from Georgia Tech’s fall conference in Atlanta through the Carolinas’ university conferences at Duke and UNC to a dense Florida season anchored by GatorMUN and FHSMUN.
Florida deserves special mention for depth: between GatorMUN, KnightMUN, FIMUN, FHSMUN, and the year-round Foundations for Leadership conferences, a Florida delegate can compete nearly every month without crossing state lines.
13 conferences listed · Last verified July 2026
Houston Area Model United Nations (nonprofit) · Houston, TX
A two-day conference and the oldest high school Model UN in the southwestern United States, drawing schools from across Texas.
University of Texas at Austin students · Austin, TX
UT Austin’s student-run conference, dating to the 1990s: a two-day fall event with standard and crisis committees, and a spring day devoted entirely to crisis.
Rice University students · Houston, TX
A weekend conference on Rice’s campus serving the greater Texas area.
Georgia Tech · Atlanta, GA
A weekend conference on Georgia Tech’s campus, established in 1998, drawing schools from across the Southeast.
Duke University (International Relations Association) · Durham, NC
A three-day conference on Duke’s West Campus with a dozen or more committees across GA and crisis formats.
UNC-Chapel Hill (Carolina International Relations Association) · Chapel Hill, NC
A three-day simulation mixing UN agencies with a small selection of crisis committees.
Vanderbilt University (International Relations Association) · Nashville, TN
A four-day, all-crisis conference with sixteen crisis committees and more than 13 hours of committee time. Best suited to delegates who already enjoy fast-paced debate.
University of Florida Model UN · Gainesville, FL
Billed as the largest student-run high school conference in the southeastern US, with GA and crisis committees on the University of Florida campus.
FHSMUN (independent organization) · Orlando area, FL
A four-day statewide flagship founded in 1980, one of the oldest high school Model UN conferences in the Southeast.
University of Central Florida · Orlando, FL
A fall weekend conference at UCF, among the larger high school events in the Southeast.
Florida International University · Miami, FL
A three-day conference at FIU’s Modesto A. Maidique Campus serving South Florida.
Foundations for Leadership (Florida nonprofit) · Miami-Dade and Pinellas County, FL
Regional Florida conferences plus in-classroom Model UN instruction, running since 2013 and built for both middle and high school students.
SRMUN Inc. · Atlanta, GA and Charlotte, NC
Three-day collegiate UN simulations at hotel venues, run by a nonprofit founded in 1990. Listed for context: it is not a high school conference.
HAMUN in Houston, with more than 1,000 delegates each February. It is also the oldest high school conference in the southwestern US. CTMUN at UT Austin is the other fixed point on the Texas calendar, with a fall conference plus a spring all-crisis day.
VUMUN at Vanderbilt is the standout: all sixteen of its committees are crisis, which is rare anywhere in the country. CTMUN’s spring conference in Austin is also crisis-only, and GatorMUN and DUMUNC both carry strong crisis slates alongside their GAs.
Florida is the best served: Foundations for Leadership runs conferences and classroom programs for middle schoolers in Miami-Dade and Pinellas County. Elsewhere, middle school participation mostly happens through school-hosted invitationals rather than standing conferences.
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