Venue: Poznań University of Economics and Business, building D, Lecture Hall 4.1,  al. Niepodległości 10, Poznań (and online)

12:00 – 12:15 (CET) Opening of the conference and welcome address by the University Authorities

12:15– 13:45 (CET) Plenary session (Panel I): Indo-Pacific responses and strategies to geopolitical and geoeconomic challenges

Chair: Katarzyna Nawrot, University of Warsaw

• Saheli Chattaraj: India – China Relations and Regional Balancing in the Indo-pacific
• Jakub Kociubiński: Between Inaction and a Retaliatory Spiral – Challenges in Applying the Foreign Subsidies Regulation to Chinese Businesses in the European Union
• Anna Łozowicka, Barbara Będowska-Sójka: Evaluating the Efficiency of Europe and Asia Trade Networks: A Two-Stage SNA-DEA Approach

13:45 – 14:30 (CET) Lunch break

14:30 – 16:00 (CET) Parallel panels:

• Panel II (lecture hall 4.1): Trade and Geoeconomic Risks,
  Chair: Ewa Mińska-Struzik, Poznań University of Economics and Business
• Panel III (room 2.2): Culture system challenges
  Chairs: Katarzyna Nawrot, University of Warsaw, Judyta Cabańska, Poznań University of Economics and Business
• Panel IV (room 3.1): Geopolitical risks
  Chair: Magdalena Śliwińska, Poznań University of Economics and Business
• Panel V (room 3.2): Doing business in times of turbulence
  Chair: Szymon Mazurek, Wrocław University of Economics and Business
• Panel VI (online): Security challenges and transformation of regions
  Chair: Paweł Pasierbiak, Maria Curie-Skłodowska University in Lublin

16:00– 16:15 (CET) Coffee break

16:15– 16:30 (CET) Conference summary and acknowledgements
Ida Musiałkowska, Poznań University of Economics and Business
Szymon Mazurek, Wrocław University of Economics and Business

The 14th Asia-Pacific International Conference (Indo-Pacific in the era of tectonic shifts: responses and strategies from the region to geopolitical and geoeconomic challenges) focuses on identifying and proposing solutions to the most significant problems and challenges faced by the countries and enterprises from the Asia-Pacific regions in the context of current unprecedented political, economic and technological transformations.

The Department of European Studies at the Poznań University of Economics, the Faculty of Political Science and International Studies of the University of Warsaw and the Asia-Pacific Research Centre at the Wroclaw University of Economics and Business, together with its partners, would like to invite submissions of completed manuscripts and research-in-progress papers addressing the economic, social, and political issues connected to the challenges and responses from Asia-Pacific.

The 14th Asia-Pacific International Conference will provide an excellent opportunity and platform for the exchange of research on the state of the global economy and politics from the region’s perspective. The conference is part of the events related to the 100th anniversary of the foundation of the Poznań University of Economics and Business and the 50th anniversary of the Faculty of Political Science and International Studies of the University of Warsaw.