2023

Speakers

Alesia Koush

Researcher 

Alesia Koush, an expert in heritage protection and cultural values education, is currently a Ph.D. researcher at the University of Reading, United Kingdom. Additionally, Alesia is active as a researcher with Research, Assessment and Safeguarding of the Heritage of Iraq in Danger (RASHID) International. Alesia is based in Florence, Italy, where she collaborates with the Centre for Ancient Mediterranean and Near Eastern Studies, who grant partial sponsorship toward her Ph.D. research. In Italy, Alesia teaches at master’s programs at Palazzo Spinelli Institute of Art and Restoration and is a tutor of the international campus “Preserving Cultural Heritage” of Rondine Cittadella della Pace in Arezzo. She also collaborates with a number of heritage-related organizations, such as UNESCO Office of the Municipality of Florence, Association MUSE, and Commission for the Protection of Italian and Foreign Cultural Heritage of the Academy of Arts and Drawings. Previously, Alesia acquired three master’s degrees in European Union politics and administration (College of Europe, Belgium), art history (University of Florence, Italy), and human rights, migrations, and development (University of Bologna, Italy). An educationist by background, Alesia develops and conducts interactive value education workshops and laboratories for children and training for education specialists. Alesia works for the promotion of principles of the 1935 Roerich Pact, and is a member of the International Council on Monuments and Sites, the International Council of Museums, UNESCO Emergency Safeguarding of Syrian Cultural Heritage Roster of Experts, and the UNESCO Historic Centre of Florence. Alesia is active internationally conducting lectures, training, and speeches, publishing articles, and organizing conferences and events on the themes of her academic and professional expertise.