Full List of Academic Activities
1. Conference Organization
2. Other Conference Activities
3. Lectures, Seminars & Presentations at the University of Cyprus
4. Organization of invited Cyprus Seminars at the University of Cyprus
5. Reviews & Evaluations
6. Referee for academic journals
1. Conference Organization:
1995 Organizer, Graduate Student Colloquium, Department of Sociology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA.
2000 Organizer, Presider & Discussant, special panel "Southeastern Europe at the Dawn of the 21st Century", American Sociological Association Annual Meetings, Washington DC.
2005 Organizer/Presider, Panel ST 14 "Greek Orthodoxy and Modernity: Reassessing the Boundaries", bi-annual Congress of the International Society for the Sociology of Religion, Zagreb, Croatia.
2005 Organizer of two Panels on Collective Memory and Cultural Politics for the 37th World Congress of the International Institute of Sociology, Stockholm, Sweden.
2005 Organizer (with Vered Vinitzky-Seroussi) of a panel on Collective Memory and Commemoration for the 37th World Congress of the International Institute of Sociology, Stockholm, Sweden.
2008 Organizer (with Willfried Spohn) of a panel on Globalization, Religion and Collective Identities: Theoretical, Historical and Comparative Perspectives, for the International Sociological Association's 1st Interim Conference, Barcelona, Spain.
2008 Organizer (with Dee Britton) of a panel on "Multiple Cosmopolitanisms: Intersections of Globalization, Transnationalism and the Nation-State", 38th World Congress of the International Institute of Sociology, Budapest, Hungary.
2008 Organizer (with Dalia Abdelhady) of a panel on "(Re-) Asserting Memory in a Global Age", 38th World Congress of the International Institute of Sociology, Budapest, Hungary.
2010 Organizer of a session on "Inter-Civilizational Configurations and Encounters: Towards a Historical Sociology of Globalization", for Thematic Group #02 Comparative and Historical Sociology, World Congress of Sociology, Goetheburg, Sweden.
2010 Member, Scientific Committee, International Conference on Migration and Diversity in the Mediterranean, organized by the Anthropology Lab of the Demokretus University of Thrace, Kalimari, Crete, Greece, July 11-16.
2012 Workshop Chair & Convener: Workshop on Religious Cultures, Diversity and Pluralism in Cyprus, 13th Conference of the International Society for the Study of European Ideas, Nicosia, Cyprus.
2. Other Conference Activities:
1992 Discussant, Section on Youth, American Sociological Association Annual Meetings, August, Pittsburgh, PA.
1992 Roundtable Organizer and Presider, Roundtable on "Cultural Theory", 10th Anniversary Conference of the journal Theory, Culture and Society, Seven Springs, PA.
1994 Discussant, Sessions 9 & 10 on Nationalism & Globalization, World Congress of Sociology, July, Bielefeld, Germany, Research Committee 16 (Sociological Theory).
1995 Roundtable Organizer and Presider, refereed roundtable "The Ethnic Revival and the New World Order", North Central Sociological Association Annual Meetings, April, Pittsburgh, PA.
1998 Presider, Roundtable 18 "Culture and Territory", Culture Section Refereed Roundtables, American Sociological Association Annual Meetings, August, San Francisco, CA.
2000 Panelist, Faculty Workshop "Individuals and their Global Communities: Changing Paradigms of Identity", Monday May 22, 2K56 Posvar Hall, University of Pittsburgh.
2001 Discussant, Social Science History Association Annual Meetings, Chicago, IL: Panel on Macro-historical Dynamics.
2005 Discussant, bi-annual Congress of the International Society for the Sociology of Religion, Zagreb, Croatia: Panel ST 13 "Reconfiguring Church-State Boundaries in Greece".
2005 Discussant, 37th World Congress of the International Institute of Sociology, Stockholm, Sweden: Panel on Collective Memory and Cultural Politics.
2009 Discussant, bi-annual Congress of the International Society for the Sociology of Religion, Santiago de al Compesta, Spain: Session 19/4, Religiosity within Parish and Beyond.
3. Lectures, Seminars & Presentations at the University of Cyprus:
2005 "What Is Globalization?". Lecture at the University of Cyprus' Open University lecture series, Limassol, Cyprus, May 23 (in Greek).
2007 Conducting Library Research and Writing Papers for the Humanities and Social Sciences: One-day seminar offered through the Center for Teaching and Learning [KEDIMA] September 22, University of Cyprus.
2009 "The Hellenic Diaspora: Past, Present, Future". Lecture at the University of Cyprus' Open University lecture series, Larnaca, February 4 (in Greek).
2009 "The Social Transformation of the Church of Cyprus: From the Ottoman authority framework to Colonial modernity" (with Michael N. Michael), Lecture at the University of Cyprus' Open University lecture series, Nicosia, Skali, November 4 (in Greek).
2009 Conducting Library Research and Writing Papers for the Humanities and Social Sciences: One-day seminar offered through the Center for Teaching and Learning [KEDIMA], October 24, University of Cyprus.
2009 "Health and Security at the University of Cyprus' Work Place", Presentation, October 22.
2010 "The Sociology of Religion in the Greek-Orthodox world: A Brief Overview & Prospects in Greece & Cyprus", Departmental graduate seminar series' presentation (February 17).
4. Organization of invited Cyprus Seminars at the University of Cyprus:
2007 Panel Organizer, panel on the Greek edition of The New Balkans, November 26. Keynote speaker: Aristotelis Tziampiris (University of Pireaus, Greece).
2008 Organizer & Coordinator, Lecture by Dalia Abdelhady (Southern Methodist University, TX, USA), April 8 (co-sponsored by Turkish and Middle Eastern Studies Department).
2008 Organizer & Coordinator, Lecture by Alexander Agadjanian (Russian University of the Humanities), November 4.
2009 Organizer & Coordinator, Lecture by Dr. Berch Berberoglou (University of Nevada – Reno, USA), October 21.
2010 Organizer & Coordinator, Lecture by Dr. Paul Kennedy (Director of Global Studies, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK), November 18.
5. Reviews & Evaluations:
1993 Reviewer for the 1994 Eastern Sociological Society Annual Meetings.
2001 Reviewer, Academy for Educational Development, US State Department (Washington, DC), responsible for evaluating 14 proposals for institutional cooperation between US and European universities.
2003 Reviewer, PSC-CUNY Faculty Research Grant Committee, City University of New York.
2004 External Reviewer, Reappointment Committee, Department of Urban Planning, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio.
2004 Reviewer, European Science Foundation (ESF) Standing Committee for the Social Sciences, Peer Review Evaluation of Exploratory Workshop EW04.
2006 Referee for the Humanities Council of the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (Vidi Program, Innovation Research Incentives Scheme 2006).
2009 Referee for The Research Council (TRC), Sultanate of Oman.
2010 Referee of draft chapter for Devorah Kalekin-Fishman (ed.), Sociology and Social Change, volume based on conference proceedings of the 1st World Forum of Sociology.
2010 Manuscript reviewer for Lexington Books: A division of Rowman and Littlefield.
2010 & 2011 Book Proposal Referee for Ashgate (UK).
2010 External Evaluator, HERACLITUS II Research Program for: Ministry of Education, Life Long Learning and Religious Affairs, Republic of Greece.
2010 External Evaluator, External Experts Committee (EEC), Hellenic Quality Assurance Agency for Higher Education (HQAA), responsible for the evaluation of the Department of Public Relations & Communication of the Technological Educational Institute (TEI) of Western Macedonia (Kastoria Campus), Greece, November 1 - 6.
2011 – Present, Acquisitions Editor & Editorial Board Member, de Gruyter & Versita joint publishing program in Theology, Judaism and Religious Studies.
2011 Book Proposal referee for Routledge (UK).
6. Referee for the following academic journals:
- Current Sociology
- Sociology of Religion
- Global Networks
- Journal of Sociology
- American Sociological Review
- Millennium: Journal of International Studies
- Cultural Sociology
- Ethnic and Racial Studies
- Nations and Nationalism
- International Politics
- Journal of Modern Greek Studies
- Interdisciplinary Journal of Research on Religion
- Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism
- Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies
- Holocaust and Genocide Studies
- Theoria: A Journal of Social and Political Theory
- History and Memory
- Social Compass: International Review of Sociology of Religion
- South European Societies and Politics
- Slavic Review
- Journal of Political and Military Sociology (re-launched in 2011 as Political and Military Sociology: An Annual Review)
- Geopolitics
- Ecology & Society: A Journal of Integrative Science for Resilience and Sustainability
- Security Dialogue
- Journal of Organizational Change Management
- Journal of Contemporary European Studies
- Journal of Contemporary Religion
