The conversation will take place on the online platform Zoom. A link will be sent to registered guests via email one hour before the start of the program. Please register here. The Dallas Holocaust and Human Rights Museum has organized a series of discussions on Holocaust and human rights films moderated by Museum historians, film professionals, […]
Read moreChair and Moderator: Ksenya Kiebuzinski (PJP Co-Director and Head of the Petro Jacyk Central & East European Resource Centre, and Slavic Resources Coordinator, the University of Toronto Libraries) While the Holodomor affected all of Soviet Ukraine, not all regions suffered equally. Drawing on archives in Russia, Ukraine, and Belarus, as well as witness testimonies, my research demonstrates that […]
Read moreProfessor Lubomyr Luciuk will discuss How People Live in Soviet Russia: Impressions from a Journey, Mendel Osherowitch’s account of his visit to Soviet Ukraine in 1932 at a time when millions of Ukrainians were dying of starvation. Professor Luciuk edited the volume, newly translated from the Yiddish, which has been described as “one of the most penetrating and moving accounts of […]
Read moreHREC sponsored panels at the Danyliw Research Seminar on Contemporary Ukraine at the University of Ottawa in recognition of the 85th anniversary of the Holodomor. The seminar is an annual forum and an important venue in Ukrainian studies, bringing together international researchers working in the social sciences and humanities related to Ukraine. Presenters included Oleh […]
Read moreThis event, organized together with the Shevchenko Scientific Society and sponsored by: BCU Foundation and Ukrainian Cultural Centre Toronto, featured eminent Polish-Ukrainian Ola Hnatiuk and Roman Wysocki, who discussed their publishing project “Ukraine. Europe: 1921-1939,” the aim of which is to publish little-known documents that counteract falsifications of history, including a volume dedicated to documents […]
Read moreAt a panel organized by HREC at the conference of the Canadian Association of Slavists (CAS) titled, “Cold War Politics and Memory of the Holodomor” featured a paper by HREC’s Bohdan Klid discussing Ukrainian testimonies related to the US Select Committee on Communist Aggression in 1954; Oksana Vynnyk presenting on representations of Holodomor “victims,” “perpetrators,” […]
Read moreHREC supported a day of Holodomor-related programming at the congress of the Ukrainian Canadian Students’ Union (SUSK), held in Winnipeg. The congress was attended by more than fifty student leaders from across Canada. HREC provided SUSK a grant of $6,000 to fund bursaries toward the costs of travel to Winnipeg from Victoria, Vancouver, Edmonton, Calgary, […]
Read moreDr. Iryna Skubii is an Associate Professor at the Petro Vasylenko Kharkiv National Technical University of Agriculture. Her research project focuses on material culture and the experiences of children during the Holodomor. Dr. Skubii presented her research on material culture in Ukraine in the 1920–1930s.
Read moreHREC took active part in the 85th anniversary Holodomor commemorations in Ukraine, in particular, as panelists at the International Forum “Ukraine Remembers, The World Acknowledges,” held November 22–23, 2018, at Ukrainian House in Kyiv and organized by the National Institute of Memory of Ukraine and the Government of Ukraine. HREC’s Ms. Baziuk, Dr. Klid, Dr. […]
Read moreAt a Holodomor commemoration event organized by the Sheptytsky Institute, HREC Research Associate Anastasia Leshchyshyn presented on the Holodomor photo directory project, undertaken together with librarian Lana Babij. The documentary film “Voices of Survivors” was screened, and director Ariadna Ochrymovych was present and responded to questions from the audience. HREC provided research support in the […]
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