HREC sponsored a Holodomor panel at the 35th Millersville University Conference on the Holocaust and Genocide, in Millersville, Pennsylvania, April 11-13, 2018. Presenting were Olga Bertelsen (New York University), on “Starvation and Violence Amid the Soviet Politics of Silence: The 1928-1929 Famine in Ukraine”; Bohdan Klid (University of Alberta) on “Knocking Sense into the Heads […]
Read moreHREC was a co-organizer with the Armenian National Committee of Canada (ANCC) of a one-day conference to examine common experiences of genocide among Canada’s ethnic communities, Canada’s historic responses to genocide, Canadian values of diversity, tolerance, and multiculturalism, and Canada’s pivotal role in international human rights today. The conference, titled “Canadian Stories: Shared Experiences Over […]
Read moreHREC organized a roundtable at the annual ASEEES Convention titled, “Ukrainian Famine (1932-33): Current Holodomor Testimony Research in Ukraine and Diaspora,” featuring Jars Balan (University of Alberta), Natalia Khanenko-Friesen (University of Saskatchewan), Bohdan Klid (University of Alberta) and William Noll (independent scholar). ASEEES is an international organization with more than 3,000 members that supports teaching, […]
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