GHEA21 Faculty

Aliaksandr Kalbaska

European Humanities University

Aliaksandr Kalbaska is Emeritus Professor of European Humanities University and teaching fellow at Global History Lab, Princeton, USA. Being the founding director of the State History and Culture Museum Reserve “Zaslaŭje,” he received his Ph.D. in museum history from the Belarusian Academy of Science (1990). With a background in museology from New York University and Masaryk University (Brno), he teaches various courses including Mythologization of Museum Objects (En), A History of the World since 1300 (En), Museum Research (Bel), Intellectual European Tradition: Paris (Ru). In various positions, he actively participated in the relocation and restoration of EHU in Lithuania. His current research and practical interests focus on the collection of EHU history and the creation of a university virtual museum. Some of the recent publications are Virtual University Museums as an ‘Absolute Reality' (2019), The University Museums and Collections Journal, The Language of Museum Objects: The Conflict Between Word and Image, The Language of Humanities: Between Word and Image (2020), European Cultural Routes of Francysk Skaryna (In Belarussian) (2023).

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