Alesia Korsak
Candidate of Historical Sciences, Head of the Department of History and Tourism
Alesia Korsak
Candidate of Historical Sciences, Head of the Department of History and Tourism
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Teaching activities
She teaches disciplines related to the history of the Second World War and international relations of the 20th century.
- History of Modern Times
- People and the Government on the Border Territory of the Belarusian Soviet Socialist Republic and the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic in 1941-1944.
- History of International Relations of the 20th - the beginning of the 21st century
- Belarusian Society during the Great Patriotic War.
Scientific activities
Defended her PhD thesis in the specialty ‘History’. She is engaged in the study of military graves and places of mass destruction of civilians on the territory of Belarus during the Great Patriotic War.
She directs the scientific activities of students, undergraduates and postgraduates in the specialty ‘History’.
Supervises scientific projects:
- Scientific research work of the Department of History and Tourism ‘Historical, cultural and tourist potential of the Belarusian Podvinye’ (09/01/2015 – 12/30/2020)
- ‘The people and the government: occupiers, collaborators and partisans on the border territory of Belarus and northwestern Russia in 1941-1944’ (2020 – 2022)
- Government research programme for 2021 – 2025: ‘Memorialization of military graves and places of extermination of the population by the German occupiers in 1941-1944 on the territory of Belarus’ within the framework of the task ‘Military history of Belarus as a factor in ensuring the humanitarian security of the Belarusian state’.
- Organization and holding of the International Scientific Conference ‘Belarusian Podvinye: experience, methodology and results of interdisciplinary and field research’ at Polotsk State University (2016, 2018, 2020 (2021), ‘Archeology and History of Podvinye’ (jointly with the Institute of History of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus, November 2019).
Scientific interests
- Genocide of The Jewish Population
- Military Graves
- Nazi Occupation Policy
- Second World War
- Great Patriotic War
- Culture Of Memory
Author's profile of the scientist
International experience
- Internship certificate. Educational project ‘Places of memory of the extermination of the mentally ill in Nazi Germany’ (03.12 – 08.12.2018. Germany, Dusseldorf, University of Dusseldorf Heinrich Heine).
- Academic exchange ‘Erasmus+’. Eberhard and Karl University of Tübingen (19-28. 01.2019. Germany, Tubingen).
- Academic Mobility of the European BRIDGE Programme (10 – 02/15/2020. Latvia, Daugavpils, Daugavpils University).
- A member of the International Belarusian and German Historical Commission (2020 – 2024).
Publications
She is the author of more than 100 scientific publications.
- Корсак, А. И. Воинские захоронения периода Великой Отечественной войны на территории белорусско-латвийско-русского пограничья в советской практике увековечения памяти / А. И. Корсак // Новейшая история России. – 2021. – Т. 11, № 1. – С. 174-183. – DOI 10.21638/11701/spbu24.2021.111.
- Корсак, А. И. Воинские захоронения периода Великой Отечественной войны на территории Беларуси: к вопросу о сохранении памяти / А. И. Корсак, М. Н. Соснина // Вопросы истории. – 2019. – № 12-3. – С. 168-174. – DOI 10.31166/VoprosyIstorii201912Statyi70.
- Кулик, С. В. Партизанское правосудие на оккупированной территории Северо-Запада России (1941-1944 гг.) / С. В. Кулик, А. И. Корсак // Вопросы истории. – 2021. – № 1. – С. 182-189. – DOI 10.31166/VoprosyIstorii202101Statyi09.