Dr. Skubii presented her research in a seminar at the Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy, University of Toronto. She discussed the importance of material items and commodities in saving children’s lives, both within their families and in orphanages. Focusing on children’s consumer goods, she examined the mechanisms of distribution and allocation of […]
Read moreOksana Kis (National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine), discussed personal narratives of female survivors of the Holodomor, exploring peculiarities and controversies of women’s experiences of survival under genocidal circumstances. Dr. Kis focused on women’s coping strategies and life-saving practices under conditions of starvation. Her research exposed a spectrum of women’s agency aimed to protect family […]
Read moreIn 2018, HREC initiated a biennial prize to be awarded to the author of an outstanding article on the Holodomor that is published in a Western language. The $2,500 prize is made in memory of Robert Conquest, author of the ground-breaking work The Harvest of Sorrow (1986). HREC convened a panel of specialists to determine […]
Read moreIn April, Genocide Awareness Month, HREC co-sponsored a Toronto book launch event for Starving Ukraine by CIUS’s Serge Cipko. HREC provided support for the publication of this important work, which examines both Canada’s reporting of the Holodomor and the country’s response to it through an analysis of newspapers, political speeches, and protests. Through an analysis […]
Read moreOleh Wolowyna (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill) delivered a lecture titled “Remarks on the Study of the Holodomor.” Professor Wolowyna addressed facts and myths about the Holodomor: what we know, what we think we know, and what we don’t know; the Holodomor as one of the greatest crimes of the twentieth century; collaboration of […]
Read moreIn her lecture, Professor Shternshis discussed how Soviet Jews survived the Holodomor and how they made sense of their experiences. Shternshis, who is Al and Malka Green Associate Professor of Yiddish studies and the director of the Anne Tanenbaum Centre for Jewish Studies at the University of Toronto, based her observations on more than 200 […]
Read moreWhile in Chicago to participate in the ASEEES convention, scholars from HREC delivered presentations at a Holodomor commemoration event at the Ukrainian National Museum of Chicago. The event was organized by the museum, the Ukrainian Genocide Famine Foundation of the USA, and the Kyiv Committee of Chicago Sister Cities International. Frank Sysyn spoke on the […]
Read moreAnne Applebaum, Pulitzer Prize-winning author, presented her new book Red Famine: Stalin’s War on Ukraine at the Innis Town Hall Theatre in Toronto on October 30, 2017. The discussion was moderated by Marta Baziuk (Executive Director of HREC) and introductory remarks were delivered by Dr. Frank Sysyn (University of Alberta). Red Famine: Stalin’s War on […]
Read moreGeorge Liber spoke about his book Total Wars and the Making of Modern Ukraine, 1914–1954 (University of Toronto Press, 2016). Between 1914 and 1954, the Ukrainian-speaking territories in East Central Europe suffered almost 15 million “excess deaths” as well as large-scale evacuations and population transfers, the consequences of two world wars, revolutions, famines, genocidal campaigns, […]
Read moreHREC organized a roundtable panel at the annual conference of the Oral History Association in Minneapolis, Minnesota, with the aim of bringing to the attention of oral historians the wealth of interviews conducted with Holodomor survivors and the critical place oral history holds in the study of the Holodomor. The panel was titled, “Intergenerational Consequences […]
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