Sponsored Events
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Holodomor Panel at the conference on the Holocaust and Genocide at Millersville University
HREC sponsored a Holodomor panel at the 35th Millersville University Conference on the Holocaust and Genocide, in Millersville, Pennsylvania, April 11-13, 2018. Presenting were Olga Bertelsen (New York University), on “Starvation and Violence Amid the Soviet Politics of Silence: The 1928-1929 Famine in Ukraine”; Bohdan Klid (University of Alberta) on “Knocking Sense into the Heads […]
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Canadian Stories: Shared Experiences Over 150 Years
HREC was a co-organizer with the Armenian National Committee of Canada (ANCC) of a one-day conference to examine common experiences of genocide among Canada’s ethnic communities, Canada’s historic responses to genocide, Canadian values of diversity, tolerance, and multiculturalism, and Canada’s pivotal role in international human rights today. The conference, titled “Canadian Stories: Shared Experiences Over […]
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HREC Presentation at the Ukrainian National Museum of Chicago
While in Chicago to participate in the ASEEES convention, scholars from HREC delivered presentations at a Holodomor commemoration event at the Ukrainian National Museum of Chicago. The event was organized by the museum, the Ukrainian Genocide Famine Foundation of the USA, and the Kyiv Committee of Chicago Sister Cities International. Frank Sysyn spoke on the […]
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Holodomor Roundtable at the Convention of the Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies (ASEEES)
HREC organized a roundtable at the annual ASEEES Convention titled, “Ukrainian Famine (1932-33): Current Holodomor Testimony Research in Ukraine and Diaspora,” featuring Jars Balan (University of Alberta), Natalia Khanenko-Friesen (University of Saskatchewan), Bohdan Klid (University of Alberta) and William Noll (independent scholar). ASEEES is an international organization with more than 3,000 members that supports teaching, […]
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Roundtable at Conference of the Oral History Association
HREC organized a roundtable panel at the annual conference of the Oral History Association in Minneapolis, Minnesota, with the aim of bringing to the attention of oral historians the wealth of interviews conducted with Holodomor survivors and the critical place oral history holds in the study of the Holodomor. The panel was titled, “Intergenerational Consequences […]
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Holodomor Panel at the Annual Conference of the Canadian Association of Slavists
HREC Research Director Bohdan Klid organized a panel on the Holodomor at the conference of the Canadian Association of Slavists titled, “New World Perspectives on the Famine and Stalinist Repressions,” featuring Jars Balan, Bohdan Klid, and Serge Cipko, all of the University of Alberta. Balan presented an analysis of newspaper reports by the Stalin apologist […]
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“Toward an Understanding of the Holodomor: The How and Why of the 1932-33 Famine in Ukraine”
Bohdan Klid delivered a presentation titled “Toward an Understanding of the Holodomor: The How and Why of the 1932-33 Famine in Ukraine” at the Ukrainian American Community Center in Minneapolis.
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Conference of the Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies (ASEEES)
HREC organized a panel “New Perspectives and Findings on the Famine (Holodomor) of 1932-1933 in Ukraine” to present new findings and insights based on recent research on the Holodomor. Jars Balan, University of Alberta, in his paper Contemporaneous Canadian Press Coverage of Ukraine’s Great Famine Holodomor, discussed the surprising wealth of information in Canadian newspapers […]
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Event at the Embassy of Ukraine
HREC co-organized an event at the Ukrainian Embassy in Washington, DC, together with the Shevchenko Scientific Society-Washington DC Chapter and the Ukrainian Congress Committee of America. Liudmyla Hrynevych spoke on propaganda and its role in the Holodomor; Bohdan Klid, on HREC’s research and publication projects; Frank Sysyn, on the roots of the academic study of […]
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“Images of ‘the Enemy’ and the National Interpretation of De-Kulakization and the Holodomor in Ukraine (1920s-1950s)” at a conference of the Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies (ASEEES)
HREC organized the panel “Images of ‘the Enemy’ and the National Interpretation of De-Kulakization and the Holodomor in Ukraine (1920s-1950s)” at a conference of the Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies (ASEEES) in Lviv at the Ukrainian Catholic University. Liudmyla Hrynevych discussed “Mechanisms of Mass Killings: Constructing the ‘Image of the Enemy’ in […]
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