Announcements
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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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HREC Announces 2023-24 Temerty Postdoctoral Fellow In Holodomor Studies, Henry Prown
HREC is pleased to announce that Dr. Henry H. Prown has been named the 2023-24 Temerty Postdoctoral Fellow in Holodomor Studies. Dr. Prown was the recipient of the 2022-23 fellowship, which has been extended an additional year. Dr. Prown is a specialist in the relationship between Stalinism and the American media during the Great Depression […]
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HREC AWARDS CONQUEST PRIZE IN HOLODOMOR STUDIES TO OKSANA KIS
HREC’s 2022 Conquest Prize in Holodomor Studies has been awarded to Dr. Oksana Kis for her article “Women’s Experience of the Holodomor: Challenges and Ambiguities of Motherhood,” published in Journal of Genocide Research (2021). The prize is awarded on a biennial basis to the author of an outstanding article that contributes to a fuller understanding of […]
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Empire, Colonialism, and Famine in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
This volume, now available from CIUS Press, examines the often-overlooked connections between empire building, imperial rule, and mass starvation. The essays, which address famine in Soviet Ukraine, Ireland, and British-ruled Bengal, India; famine during World War II in occupied Ukraine and Moldova; Raphael Lemkin on famine; and minorities in Mao’s China in the 1958-62 famine, were developed […]
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HREC Research Grants 2023-2024
The Holodomor Research and Education Consortium (HREC) announces its 2023 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, 2023 https://www.ualberta.ca/canadian-institute-of-ukrainian-studies/funding-and-awards/cius-research-grants.html
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Available Now: Recording of the 2022 Toronto Annual Ukrainian Famine Lecture
If you missed out on the 2022 Toronto Annual Ukrainian Famine Lecture, then you’re in luck! Watch the recorded lecture at the link below. LINK Speaker: Daria Mattingly, University of Cambridge and Leverhulme Early Career Fellow In her lecture, Dr. Mattingly explored how the Holodomor offers a key to understanding the current war in Ukraine, both […]
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