Events
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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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Andrey Shlyakhter (Petro Jacyk Visiting Scholar – Virtual Engagement): Borderness and Famine: Why did Fewer People Die in Soviet Ukraine’s Western Border Districts During the Holodomor, 1932-34?
Chair and Moderator: Ksenya Kiebuzinski (PJP Co-Director and Head of the Petro Jacyk Central & East European Resource Centre, and Slavic Resources Coordinator, the University of Toronto Libraries) While the Holodomor affected all of Soviet Ukraine, not all regions suffered equally. Drawing on archives in Russia, Ukraine, and Belarus, as well as witness testimonies, my research demonstrates that […]
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Lubomyr Luciuk | What Mendel Osherowitch saw: Ukraine during the Holodomor
Professor Lubomyr Luciuk will discuss How People Live in Soviet Russia: Impressions from a Journey, Mendel Osherowitch’s account of his visit to Soviet Ukraine in 1932 at a time when millions of Ukrainians were dying of starvation. Professor Luciuk edited the volume, newly translated from the Yiddish, which has been described as “one of the most penetrating and moving accounts of […]
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Online Series Emerging Scholarship on the Holodomor, Session 3
Session 3: November 18, 2020 The World Responds: International and Cross-Border Aid and Relief Efforts, (Dis)Information Campaigns, and the Fight to Help the Starving in Soviet Ukraine Presenter: John Vsetecka Discussant: Serge Cipko, Assistant Director, research, Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies at the University of Alberta, and author of Starving Ukraine: The Holodomor and Canada’s Response John Vsetecka […]
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Online Series Emerging Scholarship on the Holodomor, Session 2
On October 22, Kristina Hook will discuss her article Pinpointing Patterns of Violence: A Comparative Genocide Studies Approach to Violence Escalation in the Ukrainian Holodomor, the second presentation in the online series Emerging Scholarship on the Holodomor. Kristina Hook is a research assistant professor at George Mason University’s Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter School for Peace and […]
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