Events
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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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Call for Papers – HREC Online Conference Narrating the Holodomor
December 9-10, 2021 Narrating the Holodomor – Call for Papers – pdf And how I remember the many corpses found everywhere because it was spring: in the forest and in the fields, on the streets, people had just collapsed from hunger, and they died. […] I remember once I was grazing the cow, and in […]
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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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Film Discussion: Bitter Harvest and Mr. Jones
The conversation will take place on the online platform Zoom. A link will be sent to registered guests via email one hour before the start of the program. Please register here. The Dallas Holocaust and Human Rights Museum has organized a series of discussions on Holocaust and human rights films moderated by Museum historians, film professionals, […]
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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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A conversation with Andrea Chalupa, scriptwriter of the film Mr. Jones
Join screenwriter Andrea Chalupa in a conversation with Marta Baziuk, Executive Director of HREC, about the inspiration for and making of the film Mr. Jones and its relevance today. To register visit: https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_uoWNIruuTJqRjfwGDbCJew
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