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  • 30 Oct 2019

    The job of being hospitable in Global India

    The passion to serve! Endowing and praising indigenous youth with the quality of service, with a predisposition to hospitality and care – is it truly appreciation of a culture, its people and a way of life? In global India, marketing soft skills has become synonymous with training indigenous migrants to work in the hospitality industry. The […]

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  • 29 Oct 2019
    Daniel Elphick

    Citizen of Nowhere: Music Behind the Iron Curtain

    The fraught atmosphere of surveillance and intimidation has long made twentieth-century Russian music a fascinating area of study. Music audiences, performers, and scholars alike have been engrossed by the all-too recent time when the state directly interfered in matters of music-making and composers lived in fear. The Soviet Union was larger than just Russia, of […]

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  • 29 Oct 2019
    Christopher B. Balme

    Global Theatrical Networks

    “It’s the network, stupid”, Maurice E. Bandmann (1872-1922) might have said, had he lived longer. Perhaps the greatest theatrical entrepreneur, nobody has ever heard of, Bandmann’s career is unique and unsung. Between 1895 and 1922 he created a theatrical circuit that extended from Gibraltar to Tokyo and included regular tours to the West Indies and […]

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  • 29 Oct 2019
    Carol Frieze, Jeria L. Quesenberry

    Gender Gaps in Computing: Myth vs Fact

    Authors, Carol Frieze and Jeria L. Quesenberry debunk five common myths on the Gender Gap in Computing

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  • 29 Oct 2019
    Jon Piccini

    Human Rights in Twentieth-Century Australia

    Last month, the Australian government was the target of what commentators called an “unprecedented…broadside” at the United Nations’ Human Rights Council in Geneva. Responding to Australia’s delivery of a statement on the Kingdom’s human rights record, including the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, the Saudi Arabian ambassador accused Australia of “horrific violations of human rights”, […]

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  • 29 Oct 2019
    Luca Enriques, Tobias H. Troger

    The Law and Finance of Related Party Transactions

    The quality of corporate governance, ie the effectiveness of institutions that contain agency costs, is a key component of asset allocation. In countries characterized by concentrated ownership, minority shareholder expropriation, also known as tunneling, is the main concern from the perspective of outside investors. Tunneling can be the outcome of a number of expropriation techniques. […]

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  • 29 Oct 2019
    Shelly Kreiczer-Levy

    Marie Kondo, Minimalism and the Sharing Economy: A world without Ownership?

    Is ownership of property obsolete? And what will our world look like without ownership? Consumers are gradually losing interest in owning personal property. Marie Kondo, an organizing guru turned into a new cultural phenomenon, tells us to discard of objects that do not bring us joy. This is not a simple or easy advice. The […]

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  • 28 Oct 2019
    Jeffrey Brooks

    What Can a Centenarian Crocodile Tell Us About Russian History and Culture?

    Great children’s stories embody the spirit of nations. How else would they become classics? Kornei Chukovsky’s Krokodil, Soviet Russia’s first children’s story, appeared when Russian culture was pivoting from its prerevolutionary past to a Soviet future.  By nature, rather than design, the work carried key features of earlier cultural traditions and presaged changes on the […]

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