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A Garden in Full Bloom
Professor Iryna Dmytrychyn gave a lecture entitled “A Garden in Full Bloom” in Montreal at the invitation of the Shevchenko Scientific Society on October 27, 2019, about Edouard Herriot’s trip to Ukraine and subsequent denial of the Holodomor. She also spoke at the University of Ottawa on this subject, sponsored by the Chair of Ukrainian […]
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Academic Januses: GPU-NKVD Secret Informants at the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences (1920s-1930s)
Dr. Yurkova discussed surveillance files of Ukrainian scholars who worked at the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences in the 1920s–1930s that became accessible only in 2015, when the GPU-NKVD-KGB archives were opened as a result of decommunization laws in Ukraine. These files contain years of information on all aspects of the lives of academics and include […]
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Holodomor Panel at the 2019 Conference of Canadian Association of Slavists
At a panel organized by HREC at the conference of the Canadian Association of Slavists (CAS) titled, “Cold War Politics and Memory of the Holodomor” featured a paper by HREC’s Bohdan Klid discussing Ukrainian testimonies related to the US Select Committee on Communist Aggression in 1954; Oksana Vynnyk presenting on representations of Holodomor “victims,” “perpetrators,” […]
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Holodomor Programming at the 2019 SUSK Conference (Ukrainian Canadian Students’ Union)
HREC supported a day of Holodomor-related programming at the congress of the Ukrainian Canadian Students’ Union (SUSK), held in Winnipeg. The congress was attended by more than fifty student leaders from across Canada. HREC provided SUSK a grant of $6,000 to fund bursaries toward the costs of travel to Winnipeg from Victoria, Vancouver, Edmonton, Calgary, […]
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Japanese sources and reaction to the Holodomor
Professor Kuromiya gave a well-attended and well-received guest lecture in the senior seminar “Twentieth-Century Genocides in Eastern Europe,” providing analysis of Japanese archival sources on the Holodomor. Previously unknown consular reports from Odesa show that the Japanese diplomats were shocked by the Stalin regime’s murderous policies against its own citizens but did not speak of […]
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Consumption in Soviet Ukraine in the 1920–1930s: Between Ideology and Survival
Dr. Iryna Skubii is an Associate Professor at the Petro Vasylenko Kharkiv National Technical University of Agriculture. Her research project focuses on material culture and the experiences of children during the Holodomor. Dr. Skubii presented her research on material culture in Ukraine in the 1920–1930s.
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Holodomor Programming at the Danyliw Research Seminar on Contemporary Ukraine
HREC sponsored Holodomor content at the Danyliw Research Seminar on Contemporary Ukraine at the University of Ottawa, a prestigious annual event in Ukrainian studies, bringing together international researchers working in the social sciences and humanities related to Ukraine. A highlight of the seminar was a session with Anne Applebaum, entitled “Researching the Holodomor: A Conversation […]
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2018 Toronto Annual Ukrainian Famine Lecture by Liudmyla Hrynevych
The 21st Toronto Annual Ukrainian Famine Lecture, delivered by Dr. Liudmyla Hrynevych, the Director of the Holodomor Research and Education Centre in Kyiv, was held on the second evening of the HREC genocide conference and marked its conclusion. A Senior Scholar at the Institute of the History of Ukraine, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, […]
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Genocide in Twentieth-Century History: The Power and the Problems of an Interpretive, Ethical-Political, and Legal Concept
Each year for the past five years, HREC has organized a conference designed to engage scholars from a range of academic disciplines and demonstrate the relevance of Holodomor studies to their fields. On October 19–20, 2018, HREC gathered international specialists at the conference “Genocide in Twentieth-Century History: The Power and the Problems of an Interpretive, […]
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2017 Toronto Annual Famine Lecture by Jars Balan
Jars Balan discussed the life of journalist Rhea Clyman, one of the only journalists to witness and write about the Ukrainian Famine of 1932-33 known as the Holodomor. Raised in Toronto in a poor immigrant Jewish family, Clyman encountered adversity early in life, losing part of one leg in a streetcar accident. In September 1932, […]
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