Come listen to members of HREC present at the ASEEES Vice-President’s Roundtable titled Soviet Famine or Famines: A Reassessment 90 Years after the Holodomor. At the panel HREC will be awarding its Conquest Prize in Holodomor Studies to Oksana Kis for her article titled Women’s Experience of the Holodomor: Challenges and Ambiguities of Motherhood. Also […]
Read moreThe Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies is pleased to announce the 2024-25 Temerty Post-Doctoral Fellowship in Holodomor Studies. Offered under the auspices of its Holodomor Education and Research Consortium (HREC) for the academic year of 2023–24, the fellowship supports the study of and expansion of knowledge about the Holodomor. Applications are welcome from scholars in […]
Read moreThis collection of articles breaks new ground in Holodomor scholarship, presenting archival sources that in many cases are little known or completely unexplored. Some of the authors share their research on the archives of foreign affairs ministries in countries that maintained diplomatic relations with the Soviet Union in the 1930s, including Japan and the United […]
Read moreHREC is excited to share the recording of the 2023 Toronto Annual Ukrainian Famine Lecture held on November 6, 2023. In her lecture titled “From Stalin to Putin: Analyzing Moscow’s Genocides 90 Years after the Holodomor”, Kristina Hook discussed the issue of grappling with what Genocide really is. Her presentation focused on three key questions: What is […]
Read moreHREC is pleased to partner on the “Holodomor90” campaign and to welcome new partners committed to spreading awareness of the Holodomor in this 90th memorial year: Ukrainian Global Scholars (Stanford), Klych, the Ukrainian Women’s League of America, the World Federation of Ukrainian Women’s Organizations, and the Door County Candle Company. Holodomor90 is promoting a number of initiatives, including candlelight […]
Read moreThe Holodomor Research and Education Consortium (HREC, Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies, University of Alberta) and the Ukrainian Studies Program at the Harriman Institute, Columbia University, announce the availability of stipends to support attendance by early career scholars at the conference The Assault on Culture in Ukraine: The Holodomor Years, to be held at Columbia University October 19, 2023. Conference Concept […]
Read moreCIUS announces a new entry for the Encyclopedia of Ukraine on Rafael Lemkin, written by Larysa Bilous. This article joins CIUS’s previous entry on the Holodomor, which can be found on the HREC website under the Getting Started tab. Article Link
Read more9 June 2023 | 3:00 PM MDT / 5:00 PM EDT | Online via Zoom Symposium Participants: Dr. Ray Gamache (interwar American media – King’s College) Dr. Olga Andriewsky (interwar Canadian/Ukrainian media – Trent University) Dr. Serge Cipko (interwar Canadian/Latin American media – University of Alberta) Dr. Harvey Klehr (interwar American Communism – Emory […]
Read moreDate: May 31, 2023 This colloquium addressed these three catastrophic famines in one forum in the 90th memorial year of the Holodomor and Kazakhstan famines, and the 80th memorial year of the Bengal famine. While India was a British overseas colony and Ukraine and Kazakhstan were formally republics of the Soviet Union, the three famines […]
Read moreHREC is excited to share the recording of Dr. Mateusz Świetlicki’s (University of Wrocław, Poland) presentation “The Seeds of Memory: The Holodomor in Literature for Young Readers.” Dr. Świetlicki specializes in North American and Ukrainian children’s and young adult literature and culture. He recently published a book titled Next-Generation Memory and Ukrainian Canadian Children’s Historical […]
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