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<span style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: black"><b>Topic</b>: </span><span style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: black">Seller Beware? The
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<span style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: black">Chinese outward investment into the European Union (EU) has increased very rapidly over the past decade. From a non-existent player fifteen years ago,
China has now become one of the largest senders of foreign direct investment flows in the world. In Europe, China has become an ubiquitous investor from airports to ports, hotels to automobiles, and English to Italian football clubs. From the perspective of
the host countries, this new source of foreign investment has brought economic opportunities, in particular to EU countries that have been suffering from high unemployment and low growth in the wake of the euro crisis. The new influx of Chinese investment
has also ushered in a series of political challenges, as these countries are not used to dealing with foreign investors from less advanced economies, non-democratic regimes, or states outside of their security alliances. Additionally, it has strained European
unity, as EU Member States have developed divergent reactions to these challenges. This talk will explore why this rapid surge in Chinese direct investment into Europe happened and how European countries balanced economic benefits against political costs in
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<p style="margin: 0px 0px 8pt"><span style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: black">Drivers of international education and skilled migration: Reshaping perspectives</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px 0px 8pt"><span style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: black">Subodhanie</span><span style="margin: 0px"><span style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: black"><span> </span></span></span><span style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: black">Umesha</span><span style="margin: 0px"><span style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: black"><span> </span></span></span><span style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: black">Weerakkody</span><span style="margin: 0px"><span style="margin: 0px"></span></span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0px 0px 8pt"><span style="margin: 0px; border: 1pt none windowtext; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: black">What impact social media had on the 2019 Indian elections?</span><span lang="en-US" style="margin: 0px"></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px 0px 8pt"><span lang="en-US" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: black">Dr Usha<span> </span></span><span style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: black">Manchanda</span><span style="margin: 0px"><span style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: black"><span> </span></span></span><span style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: black">Rodrigues</span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0px 0px 8pt"><span lang="en-US" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: black"><span style="margin: 0px; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: white">Looking
Outward, Looking Inward: Conveying Japan’s popular music as cultural heritage through the song contest '</span><span style="margin: 0px; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box">Kouhaku Utagassen'</span><br>
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<p style="margin: 0px"><span style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: black">Asia Pacific aged care workforce in Australia: gender, race, class and the feminization of labour migration </span></p>
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Migrations in the Asia-Pacific: Transformative Experiences in the Age of Digital Media</span><span style="display:inline!important"><span style="font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:12pt; color:rgb(0,0,0)"> </span></span></a><br>
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Assurance in Asia-Pacific Universities Implementing Massification in Higher Education</span><span style="display:inline!important"><span style="font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:12pt; color:rgb(0,0,0)"> </span></span></a></span><br>
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Asia Pacific in the Age of Transnational Mobility: The Search for Community and Identity on and through Social Media</span><span style="display:inline!important"><span style="font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:12pt; color:rgb(0,0,0)"> </span></span></a></span><br>
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