International Advisory Board

Dr. Aida Alymova, Kurmanzhan Datka Center of Nomadic Civilization, Kyrgyzstan

Kristian Bankov, Professor of Semiotics, Secretary General of the IASS/AIS, New Bulgarian University, Sofia

Michael Beckerman, Professor, New York City University

Karin Boklund-Lagopoulos, Professor of Linguistics, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki

Mario Vieira de Carvalho, Professor of Music, Universidade Nova de Lisboa

Ivan Darrault, Professeur à l’Université de Limoges

Sayantan Dasgupta, writer, cultural affairs specialist, University of Kolkata, Bengali, India

Jacques Fontanille, Recteur, Université de Limoges, France

Julius Fujak, Professor of Aesthetics, Nitra, Slovakia

Tursun Gabitov, Professor of Anthropology, Kazak National Al-Farabi University, Almaty, Kazakstan

Anuar Galiev, Professor, Kazak National Al-Farabi University, Almaty, Kazakstan

Rahilya Geybullaeva, Professor, Azerbaigian University, Baku

Márta Grabócz, Professeur de Musicologie, Université de Strasbourg

Anna Granat-Janki, Professor, Wroclaw Music Academy

Dr. Joan Grimalt, Escola Superior de Musica de Catalunya, Barcelona

Timo Havulinna, financial adviser, ACU

Anne Hénault, Professeur, Sémiotique, Paris I Sorbonne

Aki-Mauri Huhtinen, Professor of Military Leadership and Management, LTC (G.S.), Department of Leadership and Military Pedagogy, Finnish National Defence University

Jean-Marie Jacono, Laboratoire de Recherches Musicales, Université Aix-Marseille

Seema Khanwalkar, Professor of Indian Culture, University of Ahmedabad

Matti Klinge, Professor of History, University of Helsinki

Evangelos Kourdis, Professor of Linguistics Aristotle University of Thessaloniki

Pirjo Kukkonen, Professor, Swedish Translation Studies, Scandinavian Studies, University of Helsinki

Altti Kuusamo, Professor of Art History, University of Turku, Finland

Alexandros Lagopoulos, Professor of Urban Planning, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki

Vytautas Landsbergis, former President of Lithuania, Professor of Music

Massimo Leone, Professor of Semiotics, University of Torino

You Zheng Li, Professor Emeritus of Philosophy, California

François-Bernard Mâche, academicien, compositeur, France

Pauli Mäkelä, former Ambassador of Finland in Athens

Nikolaos Maliaras, Professor of Music, Athens University

Dario Martinelli, Professor, Director of the ISI at Kaunas Technological University

Jean-Claude Mbarga, Professeur, Université de Yaoundée, Le Cameroun

Inna Merkoulova, Associate Professor, Head of the International Center for Semiotics and Intercultural Dialogue, State Academic University for the Humanities, Moscow

Jukka Meurman, Professor of Medicine, University of Helsinki

Ricardo Nogueira de Castro Monteiro, Professor of Composition and Semiotics, Universidade Federal do Cariri, Brasil

Zeynep Onur, Professor of Architecture, Çankaya University, Ankara

Vladimir Petrov, Professor, State Institute for Art Studies, Moscow;  the State University of Social Sciences, Moscow

Hannu Riikonen, Professor of Literature, University of Helsinki

Anthony Seeger, Professor of Ethnomusicology, University of California, USA

Reza Hamid Shairi, Directeur du Département de Français, Université Tarbiat Modares, Téhéran, Iran

Dimitry Shumilyn, Director, Russian Institute for Arts Research, St. Petersburg

Sokol Shupo, Professor  of Composition, Albanian Music Academy, Tirana

Gino Stefani  †  & Stefania Guerra Lisi, Professors in Università Popolare di Roma, fondatori di progetto Globalità di linguaggi

Paulo  de Tarso Camargo Cambrace Salles , Professor of Music Theory, Universidade de Sao Paulo

Daina Teters, Professor, Latvian Academy of Culture, Riga

Mieczysław Tomaszewski, Professor, Music Academy of Cracow, Poland †

Constantinos Tsoukalas, President of the Hellenic Foundation for Culture

Jaan Valsiner, Professor of Cultural Psychology, Aalborg University, Denmark

Ifigeneia Vamvakidou, Professor, Head of Department of Early Childhood Education, Modern Greek History and Culture, University of Western Macedonia

Zdzisław Wąsik, Professor of Linguistics, University of Wroclaw

Patrizia Violi, Professor of Semiotics, University of Bologna

Vilmos Voigt, Professor of Folklore, Budapest

Demetre Yannou, Professor of Musicology, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki

Zhang Jie, Professor, Dean, Nanjing Normal University, China

Yiheng Henry Zhao, Professor, Sichuan University, China