Online Series Emerging Scholarship on the Holodomor
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Online Series Emerging Scholarship on the Holodomor
Presenter: Oksana Vynnyk (University of Alberta) Discussant: Golfo Alexopoulos (University of South Florida) The construction of a new Soviet society assumed the transformation of all spheres of life, including the health care system. Soviet authorities introduced the principle that basic health care would be free and accessible to the Soviet working class. Since the older […]
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Online Series Emerging Scholarship on the Holodomor
Presenter: Iaroslav Kovalchuk, University of Alberta Discussant: Frank Sysyn, University of Alberta Iaroslav Kovalchuk argues that the concept “Holodomor” is a reinvention of a previously existing Ukrainian word by members of the Ukrainian anti-Soviet diaspora. Iaroslav explores the meanings of the word “holodomor” before it became connected to the Ukrainian Famine of 1932-1933 and traces how Ukrainian […]
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Online Series Emerging Scholarship on the Holodomor, session 7
Presenter: Andreea Kaltenbrunner, Institute of East European History (University of Vienna) Discussant: Alberto Basciani, Roma Tre University (Università Roma Tre) Andreea Kaltenbrunner holds a PhD in history from the University of Vienna. Her fields of research are Central and Eastern Europe, with a focus on anti-Semitisms and interwar Romanian history. She is currently a postdoctoral […]
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Online Series Emerging Scholarship on the Holodomor, session 6
Presenter: Charley Boerman, Radboud University Discussant: Daria Mattingly, University of Cambridge, UK Charley Boerman is a PhD candidate at Radboud University, The Netherlands. Her PhD project Framing Famines: Memory, Museums and Visual Culture is part of a larger project, Heritages of Hunger: Societal Reflections on Past European Famines in Education, Commemoration and Musealisation, and explores the visual and material memory […]
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Online Series Emerging Scholarship on the Holodomor, Session 5
Food Wastes in Crisis: Basics of Survival During the Holodomor in Soviet Ukraine Presenter: Iryna Skubii Discussant: Sarah Cameron, University of Maryland Iryna Skubii is working on her Doctoral project at Queen’s University (Canada). Her research is focused on the history of famines in Ukrainian lands in the first half of the twentieth century from a perspective […]
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Online Series Emerging Scholarship on the Holodomor, Session 4
Session 4: February 4, 2021 Overshadowed by Greater Trauma: Sexual Violence during Collectivization and the Holodomor Presenter: Daria Mattingly Discussant: Oksana Kis, Department of Anthropology, Leading Research Associate at the Institute of Ethnology, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine (in Lviv). Daria Mattingly is Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at University of Cambridge, UK where she […]
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Online Series Emerging Scholarship on the Holodomor, Session 3
Session 3: November 18, 2020 The World Responds: International and Cross-Border Aid and Relief Efforts, (Dis)Information Campaigns, and the Fight to Help the Starving in Soviet Ukraine Presenter: John Vsetecka Discussant: Serge Cipko, Assistant Director, research, Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies at the University of Alberta, and author of Starving Ukraine: The Holodomor and Canada’s Response John Vsetecka […]
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Online Series Emerging Scholarship on the Holodomor, Session 2
On October 22, Kristina Hook will discuss her article Pinpointing Patterns of Violence: A Comparative Genocide Studies Approach to Violence Escalation in the Ukrainian Holodomor, the second presentation in the online series Emerging Scholarship on the Holodomor. Kristina Hook is a research assistant professor at George Mason University’s Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter School for Peace and […]
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Online Series Emerging Scholarship on the Holodomor, Session 1
The Holodomor Research and Education Consortium (HREC) announces the online series Emerging Scholarship on the Holodomor, initiated to support innovation in the study of the Holodomor and related topics. Each monthly session will feature a presentation by an early career scholar on their current research, followed by comments from an expert in the field and discussion with […]
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