Announcements
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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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Holodomor90 Awareness Campaign
HREC 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 […]
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The Assault on Culture in Ukraine: The Holodomor Years
The 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 […]
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CIUS/HREC Symposium – “Red Decade: Stalinism in the American Media”
9 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 […]
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Internet Encyclopedia of Ukraine Article about Rafael Lemkin
CIUS 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
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Recording Available: The Great Famines in Ukraine, Kazakhstan, and Bengal (1930s-1940s) Colloquium
Date: 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 […]
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Recording Now Available – The Seeds of Memory: The Holodomor in Literature for Young Readers
HREC 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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NOW LIVE: UCRDC Survivor Interviews Database
HREC and the Ukrainian Canadian Research and Documentation Centre (UCRDC) are proud to announce that the Holodomor Survivors’ Oral Histories database is now live! This database contains a valuable collection of more than 80 video interviews with Holodomor survivors conducted by UCRDC since 2008. The collection can be viewed through the Holodomor Digital Collection database, […]
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Now Available in Paperback – Genocide: The Power and Problems of a Concept
As of April 23, the volume Genocide: The Power and Problems of a Concept (McGill-Queen’s UP, 2022), edited by Andrea Graziosi and Frank E. Sysyn, will be available in paperback. This volume contains articles based on papers presented at the conference “Genocide in Twentieth-Century History: The Power and the Problems of an Interpretive, Ethical-Political, and Legal Concept,” […]
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Ninety Years after the Holodomor: Reflections on Genocide in the Context of an Anniversary Year and War
Dr. Bohdan Klid traveled to Minneapolis, Minnesota during the first week of March to record an interview for a short documentary film. The film, tentatively titled “Holodomor: Minnesota Memories,” weaves together survivor and descendant stories and is a joint project of three local Ukrainian churches. Work on the film project has been supported by a grant […]
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