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Holodomor Panel at the Annual Conference of the Canadian Association of Slavists
HREC Research Director Bohdan Klid organized a panel on the Holodomor at the conference of the Canadian Association of Slavists titled, “New World Perspectives on the Famine and Stalinist Repressions,” featuring Jars Balan, Bohdan Klid, and Serge Cipko, all of the University of Alberta. Balan presented an analysis of newspaper reports by the Stalin apologist […]
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“Toward an Understanding of the Holodomor: The How and Why of the 1932-33 Famine in Ukraine”
Bohdan Klid delivered a presentation titled “Toward an Understanding of the Holodomor: The How and Why of the 1932-33 Famine in Ukraine” at the Ukrainian American Community Center in Minneapolis.
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Conference of the Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies (ASEEES)
HREC organized a panel “New Perspectives and Findings on the Famine (Holodomor) of 1932-1933 in Ukraine” to present new findings and insights based on recent research on the Holodomor. Jars Balan, University of Alberta, in his paper Contemporaneous Canadian Press Coverage of Ukraine’s Great Famine Holodomor, discussed the surprising wealth of information in Canadian newspapers […]
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Event at the Embassy of Ukraine
HREC co-organized an event at the Ukrainian Embassy in Washington, DC, together with the Shevchenko Scientific Society-Washington DC Chapter and the Ukrainian Congress Committee of America. Liudmyla Hrynevych spoke on propaganda and its role in the Holodomor; Bohdan Klid, on HREC’s research and publication projects; Frank Sysyn, on the roots of the academic study of […]
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From the Holodomor to the Present: State Food Crimes and Possible Remedies
Rhoda Howard-Hassmann, an emeritus professor of Wilfrid Laurier University, spoke about governments that introduced policies causing malnutrition or the starvation of those for whom they were responsible. She referred to the work of legal scholar David Marcus, who coined the term “faminogenic” to describe state policies that cause or facilitate famines. She asserted that the […]
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The Holodomor and the Language of Hate in Stalinist Propaganda
Liudmyla Hrynevych, Director of the Holodomor Research and Education Centre in Kyiv and Senior Scholar at the Institute of the History of Ukraine of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, discussed Soviet caricatures of Ukrainian “kulaks” and Orthodox priests as propaganda intended to engender hatred and as a contributing factor in the Holodomor. The […]
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What We Now Know about the Holodomor: New Research Results
HREC invited demographer Dr. Oleh Wolowyna to present on recent research conducted by a team of demographers from Ukraine and the US. During the well-attended lecture, Wolowyna discussed analyses of available data and recently discovered documents that put into question some popular beliefs about the Holodomor. He also discussed comparative analyses of 1932-1934 famine losses at the regional level in Ukraine […]
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“Images of ‘the Enemy’ and the National Interpretation of De-Kulakization and the Holodomor in Ukraine (1920s-1950s)” at a conference of the Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies (ASEEES)
HREC organized the panel “Images of ‘the Enemy’ and the National Interpretation of De-Kulakization and the Holodomor in Ukraine (1920s-1950s)” at a conference of the Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies (ASEEES) in Lviv at the Ukrainian Catholic University. Liudmyla Hrynevych discussed “Mechanisms of Mass Killings: Constructing the ‘Image of the Enemy’ in […]
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Conference of the Canadian Association of Slavists
HREC organized the panel “Refugees and the Famine of 1932-1933 in Ukraine: Accounts of Flight, Early Testimonies, Memoirs and Other Writings (1930s-1950s)” held at the University of Calgary at the conference of the Canadian Association of Slavists (CAS), the major Canadian professional organization in Slavic studies and part of a larger gathering of 69 member […]
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Ethnic Germans in Ukraine and Their American Relatives in the Dakotas: Correspondence during the Famine of 1932–1933
The Minnesota-based researcher and writer Ron Vossler gave a lecture sponsored by CIUS’s Holodomor Research and Educational Consortium (HREC) at the University of Alberta titled “Death Scream: Ethnic Germans in Soviet Ukraine Write Their Dakota Relatives, 1932–33.” Vossler, who has studied and written on the German communities in the Dakotas, based the presentation on his […]
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