Lectures and Workshops
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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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Hybrid Lecture – The Seeds of Memory: The Holodomor in Literature for Young Readers
Date/Time: Mar 30, 2023 07:00 PM (MT) 9:00 ET Location: University of Alberta, Business 1-09 The growing interest in Ukraine and its history has contributed to the appearance of new books about the Holodomor, including works of historical fiction for various age groups. This talk will showcase the evolution of the place of the Holodomor in […]
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The Ukrainian Bureau in London and Its Documents Related to the Holodomor
Dr. Wysocki discussed the role of the Ukrainian Bureau in London, which was established in 1931 and played a key role in the area of Ukrainian civic diplomacy and disseminating information on the situation in Ukraine, especially on the Holodomor. Dr. Wysocki is a lecturer at the Institute of History at Maria Curie-Sklodowska University in […]
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A Garden in Full Bloom
Professor Iryna Dmytrychyn gave a lecture entitled “A Garden in Full Bloom” in Montreal at the invitation of the Shevchenko Scientific Society on October 27, 2019, about Edouard Herriot’s trip to Ukraine and subsequent denial of the Holodomor. She also spoke at the University of Ottawa on this subject, sponsored by the Chair of Ukrainian […]
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Academic Januses: GPU-NKVD Secret Informants at the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences (1920s-1930s)
Dr. Yurkova discussed surveillance files of Ukrainian scholars who worked at the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences in the 1920s–1930s that became accessible only in 2015, when the GPU-NKVD-KGB archives were opened as a result of decommunization laws in Ukraine. These files contain years of information on all aspects of the lives of academics and include […]
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Japanese sources and reaction to the Holodomor
Professor Kuromiya gave a well-attended and well-received guest lecture in the senior seminar “Twentieth-Century Genocides in Eastern Europe,” providing analysis of Japanese archival sources on the Holodomor. Previously unknown consular reports from Odesa show that the Japanese diplomats were shocked by the Stalin regime’s murderous policies against its own citizens but did not speak of […]
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The Material World of Ukrainian Children during the Holodomor and What Saved Children’s Lives
Dr. Skubii presented her research in a seminar at the Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy, University of Toronto. She discussed the importance of material items and commodities in saving children’s lives, both within their families and in orphanages. Focusing on children’s consumer goods, she examined the mechanisms of distribution and allocation of […]
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Ambiguities of the Ukrainian Women’s Experiences of the Holodomor 1932–33: Victimhood, Agency, Perpetration
Oksana Kis (National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine), discussed personal narratives of female survivors of the Holodomor, exploring peculiarities and controversies of women’s experiences of survival under genocidal circumstances. Dr. Kis focused on women’s coping strategies and life-saving practices under conditions of starvation. Her research exposed a spectrum of women’s agency aimed to protect family […]
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Inaugural Awarding of the Conquest Prize for Contribution to Holodomor Studies
In 2018, HREC initiated a biennial prize to be awarded to the author of an outstanding article on the Holodomor that is published in a Western language. The $2,500 prize is made in memory of Robert Conquest, author of the ground-breaking work The Harvest of Sorrow (1986). HREC convened a panel of specialists to determine […]
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Launch of Serge Cipko’s book “Starving Ukraine: The Holodomor and Canada’s Response”
In April, Genocide Awareness Month, HREC co-sponsored a Toronto book launch event for Starving Ukraine by CIUS’s Serge Cipko. HREC provided support for the publication of this important work, which examines both Canada’s reporting of the Holodomor and the country’s response to it through an analysis of newspapers, political speeches, and protests. Through an analysis […]
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