Visiting Scholars 2017
HREC established a partnership in 2017 with the Petro Jacyk Program for the Study of Ukraine (Centre for European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies, Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy, University of Toronto) to host a visiting scholar in Holodomor studies annually. The HREC Visiting Scholar has access to the university’s rich library resources and to the archives of the Ukrainian Canadian Research and Documentation Centre, which include unpublished eyewitness accounts and survivor interviews. HREC also facilitates meetings with colleagues in the genocide studies community.
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2017 Visiting Scholar in Holodomor Studies: Dr. Myroslava Antonovych
The first HREC Visiting Scholar was Dr. Myroslava Antonovych, Director of the Centre for International Human Rights, National University of Kyiv Mohyla-Academy (NaUKMA) in May 2017. Her research proposal, “The Specificity and Communality of the Holodomor in the World Context of Genocides,” is a study of the Holodomor as a crime of genocide in the context of the International Criminal Court. The study examines the Holodomor in the broader context of the Holocaust and the Armenian, Cambodian, and Rwandan genocides, as well as genocide in the former Yugoslavia and Darfur. Dr. Antonovych is a Doctor of Law (Magna Cum Laude, Ukrainian Free University, Munich), Director of the Centre for International Human Rights (in Kyiv), a former Judge ad hoc of the European Court of Human Rights, Head of International Law Department (NaUKMA), and has taught a course on Genocide Studies in the Law School of the National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy for five years.
On April 19, 2017, Dr. Myroslava Antonovych delivered a lecture titled “Specificities and Commonalities of the Holodomor in the Context of Genocides in the First Half of the Twentieth Century” at the Munk School of Global Affairs, University of Toronto.
