Five Major Themes

The Joint Seminar provides students, researchers and professors with an open forum to discuss topics under the four regular themes and one host university's additional theme: Population, Food, Energy, Environment, and Communication.

Topics for Presentation

Several important topics in each theme are listed below. Presenters are expected to focus on one of the topics in their presentations, though most of the topics in each theme are closely related.

• Population
• world population growth
• poverty
• international migration
• urbanisation
• fertility
• family
• human health
• law and policies
• other related issues


• Food
• production
• processing
• marketing
• traceability
• world trade
• hunger
• food safety
• other related issues


• Energy
• fossil fuels
• atomic energy
• alternative energy (solar, wind, fuel cell, etc)
• biomass, biofuel
• energy saving
• energy trading
• law and policies
• other related issues


• Environment
• global warming
• biodiversity
• pollution (air, water, etc)
• nature conservation
• waste
• environmental education
• law and policies
• other related issues


• Communication (host university's additional theme)
• technology, device
• mass communication
• journalism
• language
• crosscultural communication
• peronal communication
• education
• law and policies
• other related issues