Stsiapan Stureika, PhD – historian, cultural anthropologist, full-time lecturer at the European Humanities University (Vilnius), holds the Chair of ICOMOS Belarus, and is an Associate Member of the International Committee on Theory and Philosophy of Conservation and Restoration.
The field of his current research interest is the theory of architectural heritage, community-based conservation projects, new museology. Since 2010 he has conducted several research projects on social aspects of heritage preservation, transformation of Cultural Landscapes of Belarusian Towns, urban movements for heritage preservation in Eastern Europe. In 2015 has won a Thesaurus Poloniae fellowship of the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage of the Republic of Poland (implemented by the International Cultural Centre in Kraków). In 2016-2017 had prepared a Report on Developing Cultural Heritage Sector in Belarus for European Union-sponsored program Culture and Creativity.
