Conferences
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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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The Holodomor in Global Perspective Conference
The conference The Holodomor in Global Perspective will be taking place September 28-29, 2022, at the University of Cambridge (UK). Although the Holodomor affected global economics, politics, and international relations and was covered in hundreds of press accounts, its role in global history has yet to receive adequate attention. Presenters at the conference will address […]
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Call for papers – The Holodomor in Global Perspective
The conference The Holodomor in Global Perspective has been rescheduled for September 28-29, 2022, at the University of Cambridge (UK). Although the Holodomor affected global economics, politics, and international relations and was covered in hundreds of press accounts, its role in global history has yet to receive adequate attention. Presenters at the conference will address aspects of […]
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ROUNDTABLE “Russia’s War on Ukraine in the Context of Genocide”
The Holodomor Research and Education Consortium has organized a roundtable to examine recent events in Ukraine in the context of genocide, featuring leading experts in genocide theory and law. Friday, April 29, 11 AM (EST) Zoom link PARTICIPANTS: Dirk Moses, University of North Carolina Dr. Moses is Frank Porter Graham Distinguished Professor […]
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Narrating the Holodomor Conference
The social and cultural history of the Holodomor remains understudied despite the many scholarly works on collectivization and the Famine that have been published. This conference seeks to recover the voices of those who lived through the events. Presenters will consider survivor and witness memoirs and testimonies, incorporating and analyzing both official government sources and […]
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Call for Papers – HREC Online Conference Narrating the Holodomor
December 9-10, 2021 Narrating the Holodomor – Call for Papers – pdf And how I remember the many corpses found everywhere because it was spring: in the forest and in the fields, on the streets, people had just collapsed from hunger, and they died. […] I remember once I was grazing the cow, and in […]
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Documenting the Famine of 1932-1933 in Ukraine: Archival Collections on the Holodomor outside the former Soviet Union
On November 1‐2, 2019, the University of Alberta hosted scholars from seven countries who came together to discuss archival materials found outside of the former Soviet Union that contain materials related to collectivization and the Holodomor. According to HREC Director of Research Bohdan Klid, the conference “Documenting the Famine of 1932-1933 in Ukraine” achieved the […]
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Genocide in Twentieth-Century History: The Power and the Problems of an Interpretive, Ethical-Political, and Legal Concept
Each year for the past five years, HREC has organized a conference designed to engage scholars from a range of academic disciplines and demonstrate the relevance of Holodomor studies to their fields. On October 19–20, 2018, HREC gathered international specialists at the conference “Genocide in Twentieth-Century History: The Power and the Problems of an Interpretive, […]
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Empire, Colonialism, and Famine in Comparative Historical Perspective – International Symposium
International specialists on imperial, colonial, and famine studies gathered in Kyiv on 5-7 June 2017 to attend the symposium Empire, Colonialism, and Famine in Comparative Historical Perspective. The symposium was a follow-up conference to an event by the same name held in Toronto in October 2016. Conference Concept The nineteenth and twentieth centuries are marked […]
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Empire, Colonialism, and Famine in Comparative Historical Perspective: The Bengal, Irish, and Ukrainian Famines
HREC brought together experts on the Ukrainian, Bengal, and Irish famines and 20 early career scholars from institutions in Ukraine, Europe, India, and North America. Each year for the past four years, HREC has organized an international conference designed to engage scholars from a range of academic disciplines and to demonstrate the relevance of Holodomor […]
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