Announcements
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How to Hide a Famine – The Holodomor as History and Heuristic
The Toronto Annual Ukrainian Famine Lecture will take place on November 10 (Monday), 7 PM, in-person in the Campbell Conference Facility, Munk School, 1 Devonshire Place, Toronto and online via Zoom. This year’s speaker is Dr. Henry Prown, the Temerty Postdoctoral Fellow in Holodomor Studies at University of Alberta (2022-25), a specialist in the relationship […]
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HREC Research Grants 2025-2026
The HREC Research Grants Competition aims to expand knowledge and understanding of the Holodomor by supporting academic research, publishing research results, preserving materials, and organizing and participating in academic venues. Examples of research that could be supported include the policies of foreign governments during collectivization and the Holodomor; the Holodomor at the national and sub-national […]
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HREC announces prize winner of 2025 Conquest Prize
The winners of the 2025 Conquest Prize for Contribution to Holodomor Studies are Andrei Markevich, Natalya Naumenko, and Nancy Quian for their article “The Causes of Ukrainian Famine Mortality, 1932-33,” published by in Review of Economic Studies (September 2024). A jury of eminent specialists determined the winner of the $2500 CAD prize which is awarded […]
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Toronto Annual Ukrainian Famine Lecture
The Toronto Annual Ukrainian Famine Lecture will take place on November 4 (Monday), 7 PM, in-person in the Campbell Conference Facility, Munk School, 1 Devonshire Place, Toronto and online via Zoom. This year’s speaker is Alex de Waal, a world-renowned expert on famine, who will be speaking on famine denial throughout history. n-person in the […]
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Official Date for Religious Commemoration of the Holodomor
The Holy Synod of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church has announced that the official date for religions commemoration of the Holodomor will be held on the fourth Saturday of November. Read full article here.
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HREC Research Grants 2024-2025
The Holodomor Research and Education Consortium (HREC) announces its 2024-2025 Research Grants Competition. Grants are intended to support research that expands our knowledge and understanding of the Holodomor; publication and translation of research results; preservation of and increasing access to materials; and organization of and participation in academic forums. Deadline: May 15, 2024 Apply Here
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Genocide Studies at ASEEES 2023
At the ASEEES Vice-President’s Roundtable titled Soviet Famine or Famines: A Reassessment 90 Years after the Holodomor, HREC awarded 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 check out the other panels and presentations pertaining to the field of Genocide Studies […]
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Temerty Post-Doctoral Fellowship in Holodomor Studies 2024-2025
The 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 […]
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Now Available – Documenting the Famine of 1932–33 in Ukraine
This 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 […]
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Recording Now Available – Toronto Annual Ukrainian Famine Lecture 2023
HREC 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 […]
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