Events
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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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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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Russia’s War against Ukraine and Global Food Security
Date: Friday, August 26, 2022 Time: 12-1:00 pm EST Location: Online Event Speakers: Janetta Azarieva, Research Fellow, The Leonard Davis Institute for International Relations, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Oleg Nivievskyi, Assistant Professor at Kyiv School of Economics and a coordinator of the UaFoodTrade Research Project conducted jointly with the Leibniz Institute of Agricultural Development in Transition Economies […]
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ROUNDTABLE “Russia’s War on Ukraine in the Context of Genocide”
The Holodomor Research and Education Consortium has organized a roundtable to examine recent events in Ukraine in the context of genocide, featuring leading experts in genocide theory and law. Friday, April 29, 11 AM (EST) Zoom link PARTICIPANTS: Dirk Moses, University of North Carolina Dr. Moses is Frank Porter Graham Distinguished Professor […]
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Holodomor Remembrance Day
In April each year, Ukrainians worldwide traditionally visit cemeteries to remember the dead with special memorial ceremonies held the week after Easter, when victims of the Holodomor are specifically remembered. April Genocide Remembrance, Condemnation and Prevention Month is recognized in Canada annually through a historic motion passed in 2015. During this month, we honour the memory of the victims of genocide whose survivors Canada has […]
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The River that Killed and Saved: Crossing the Dnister into Romania during the Era of Collectivization and Famine in Ukraine
Eduard Baidaus will be giving a lecture on Thursday, 14 April 2022, 10:00 a.m. Edmonton time. This will be a joint CIUS/HREC event with the U of A’s Department of History, Classics, and Religion. The presentation focuses on the unsuccessful and successful attempts of Soviet citizens, especially inhabitants of the Moldavian ASSR in the Ukrainian SSR, to cross the border […]
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