Events
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How to Hide a Famine – The Holodomor as History and Heuristic
The Toronto Annual Ukrainian Famine Lecture will take place on November 10 (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 Dr. Henry Prown, the Temerty Postdoctoral Fellow in Holodomor Studies at University of Alberta (2022-25), a specialist in the relationship […]
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Toronto Annual Ukrainian Famine Lecture
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 […]
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Genocide Studies at ASEEES 2023
At the ASEEES Vice-President’s Roundtable titled Soviet Famine or Famines: A Reassessment 90 Years after the Holodomor, HREC awarded its Conquest Prize in Holodomor Studies to Oksana Kis for her article titled Women’s Experience of the Holodomor: Challenges and Ambiguities of Motherhood. Also check out the other panels and presentations pertaining to the field of Genocide Studies […]
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Toronto Annual Ukrainian Famine Lecture 2023 – 90th Memorial Year
Date: 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 […]
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Holodomor90 Awareness Campaign
HREC is pleased to partner on the “Holodomor90” campaign and to welcome new partners committed to spreading awareness of the Holodomor in this 90th memorial year: Ukrainian Global Scholars (Stanford), Klych, the Ukrainian Women’s League of America, the World Federation of Ukrainian Women’s Organizations, and the Door County Candle Company. Holodomor90 is promoting a number of initiatives, including candlelight […]
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CIUS/HREC Symposium – “Red Decade: Stalinism in the American Media”
9 June 2023 | 3:00 PM MDT / 5:00 PM EDT | Online via Zoom Symposium Participants: Dr. Ray Gamache (interwar American media – King’s College) Dr. Olga Andriewsky (interwar Canadian/Ukrainian media – Trent University) Dr. Serge Cipko (interwar Canadian/Latin American media – University of Alberta) Dr. Harvey Klehr (interwar American Communism – Emory […]
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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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Toronto Annual Ukrainian Famine Lecture 2022
Date: 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 […]
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The Holodomor in Global Perspective Conference
The conference The Holodomor in Global Perspective will be taking place September 28-29, 2022, at the University of Cambridge (UK). Although the Holodomor affected global economics, politics, and international relations and was covered in hundreds of press accounts, its role in global history has yet to receive adequate attention. Presenters at the conference will address […]
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