The Toronto Annual Ukrainian Famine Lecture will take place on November 4 (Monday), 7 PM, in-person in the Campbell Conference Facility, Munk School, 1 Devonshire Place, Toronto and online via Zoom. This year’s speaker is Alex de Waal, a world-renowned expert on famine, who will be speaking on famine denial throughout history. n-person in the […]
Read moreDate: November 06, 2023 Time: 7:00pm Location: The Vivian and David Campbell Conference Facility, Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy – 1 Devonshire Place Speaker: Kristina Hook, Kennesaw State University Kristina Hook is the Principal Author of “The Russian Federation’s Escalating Commission of Genocide in Ukraine: A Legal Analysis,” published in July […]
Read moreDate: November 09, 2022 Time: 7:00pm Location: The Vivian and David Campbell Conference Facility, Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy – 1 Devonshire Place Speaker: Daria Mattingly, University of Cambridge and Leverhulme Early Career Fellow In her lecture, Dr. Mattingly will explore how the Holodomor offers a key to understanding the current […]
Read moreTo register: Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: Annual Ukrainian Famine Lecture | Serhy Yekelchyk | Not by Starvation Alone: Stalinist Cultural Genocide in Ukraine. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the webinar. This year’s Annual Ukrainian Famine Lecture, Not by Starvation Alone: Stalinist Cultural Genocide in Ukraine, […]
Read moreZoom registration: https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_XpM9xhVzQSmXmO55QqxDHQ The lecture will also be live-streamed n the CIUS Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/canadian.institute.of.ukrainian.studies The Third All-Ukrainian Party Conference was called to address one topic only: the state of Ukraine’s agricultural sector. The delegates included not only Ukraine’s communist party leaders and district-level officials but also Kremlin emissaries Lazar Kaganovich and Viacheslav Molotov, […]
Read moreProfessor Olga Andriewsky presented the 2019 Toronto Annual Ukrainian Famine Lecture, speaking on the important yet often overlooked topic of violence as an integral component of the Holodomor. Dr. Andriewsky is Associate Professor in the Department of History at Trent University. As the anthropologist, Rubie S. Watson once asked, “How do people remember events that […]
Read moreThe 21st Toronto Annual Ukrainian Famine Lecture, delivered by Dr. Liudmyla Hrynevych, the Director of the Holodomor Research and Education Centre in Kyiv, was held on the second evening of the HREC genocide conference and marked its conclusion. A Senior Scholar at the Institute of the History of Ukraine, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, […]
Read moreJars Balan discussed the life of journalist Rhea Clyman, one of the only journalists to witness and write about the Ukrainian Famine of 1932-33 known as the Holodomor. Raised in Toronto in a poor immigrant Jewish family, Clyman encountered adversity early in life, losing part of one leg in a streetcar accident. In September 1932, […]
Read moreThe Nineteenth Toronto Annual Ukrainian Famine Lecture was delivered on November 11, 2016, by Serhii Plokhy, Mykhailo Hrushevs’kyi Professor of Ukrainian History and Director of the Ukrainian Research Institute (HURI) at Harvard University. His presentation, attended by a full auditorium at the University of Toronto, was titled “The Fields of Sorrow: Mapping the Great Ukrainian […]
Read moreHistorian Timothy Snyder delivered the Toronto Annual Ukrainian Famine Lecture to a crowded auditorium at the University of Toronto on November 4. Speaking on the topic “The Ukrainian Famine as World History,” he presented an engaging and thought-provoking lecture that was well received by those in attendance. Snyder is the Housum Professor of History at […]
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