CY Rectors Conference

Professor Dr. Kostas Gouliamos is the Rector of European University Cyprus. He is also Honorary Professor at Lanzhou City Universrity in China. He is Vice President of the Cyprus Rector’s Conference, Vice President of the Committee of The Cyprus State Archives and Vice President of the Board of Directors of the "Promitheas" Research Institute. He is a Member of the Scientific Advisory Board (SAB) of the European Social Survey (ESS): an innovative research project that won Europe’s top social science award, the Descartes Prize. He has also been appointed Member to the Steering Committee for Higher Education & Research (CDED) of the Council of Europe in Strasbourg/France.  According to the ‘University of Toronto Quarterly’ his research work - along with Professor W. Anselmi – qualifies him to “the Frankfurt School’s epigones”. He introduced (w/A. Theocharous) the concept of “marketing of war” and later he has expanded the concept in his research work. Professor Gouliamos worked for six years (2005-2011) as Member of the Standing Committee for the Humanities of the European Science Foundation (ESF). He serves as Senior Editor and/or member of Editorial Boards of distinguished academic Journals.  He is Editor of the “Journal of Critical Studies in Business & Society”, a journal that includes in the Editorial Board leading scholars (i.e., Ulrich Beck, Fredric Jameson, Henry Giroux, Ernesto Laclau, Martin Jay, Douglas Kellner, Bob Jessop, Stanley Aronowitz, Mark Poster, Saskia Sassen, Robert Babe, Vincent Mosco).  He has taken part in many international conferences and he has given several lectures as a keynote speaker in Europe, North America and Australia. He has also served as Rapporteur and/or Referee for the European Science Foundation (ESF), high – ranking journals, publishing houses and major academic associations. Parts of his research work have been: (a) selected - listed in the Volume of the International Bibliography of the Social Sciences (IBSS) produced by the London School of Economics & Political Science (recognized as a center of excellence for social sciences recourses by the European Union); (b) translated into several languages {French, Spanish, Slovak, Chinese, English, Italian}, and (c) included in the curricula of some of the best fifty (50) universities of the world. He has served as External Evaluator for various National Accreditation Agencies accros Europe. His work “The Marketing of War in the Age of Neo-militarism” (w/ C. Kassimeris) published by Routledge Advances in Sociology: “series that presents cutting-edge developments and debates within the field of sociology” (2012).  He is co-editor (w/  B. Newman and A. Theocharous) of a book "Political Marketing strategic campaign culture" (Routledge, 2013). He is latest work is " monstrous idol of Europe" ( Modern Horizons, 2014).