The conference The Holodomor in Global Perspective, to be held at the University of Cambridge (UK), June 22-23, 2022, will examine the 1932-1933 famine in global perspective. The organizers the Holodomor Research and Education Consortium, Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies, University of Alberta; The Leverhulme Trust; and the Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages at the […]
Read moreThe 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 […]
Read moreThe 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 […]
Read moreDecember 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 […]
Read moreOn 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 […]
Read moreEach 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, […]
Read moreInternational 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 […]
Read moreHREC 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 […]
Read moreStates have many tools at their disposal to suppress their subjects: the military, police, taxes, and laws, to name a few. The extent to which starvation has been used, or became a way to discriminate against, punish or eliminate national, ethnic, racial or religious groups (as described in the UN Genocide Convention) has not always […]
Read moreScholars from Canada, France, Italy, Hong Kong, England, Japan, Ukraine, and the United States gathered in Toronto on September 26–27 to examine and compare the Ukrainian, Kazakh, Chinese, and Soviet famines at the conference Communism and Hunger, organized by HREC. The conference explored the similarities and differences between these political famines. Day One of the […]
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