Events
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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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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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Narrating the Holodomor Conference
The social and cultural history of the Holodomor remains understudied despite the many scholarly works on collectivization and the Famine that have been published. This conference seeks to recover the voices of those who lived through the events. Presenters will consider survivor and witness memoirs and testimonies, incorporating and analyzing both official government sources and […]
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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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