Visiting Scholars 2019
HREC established a partnership in 2017 with the Petro Jacyk Program for the Study of Ukraine (Centre for European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies, Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy, University of Toronto) to host a visiting scholar in Holodomor studies annually. The HREC Visiting Scholar has access to the university’s rich library resources and to the archives of the Ukrainian Canadian Research and Documentation Centre, which include unpublished eyewitness accounts and survivor interviews. HREC also facilitates meetings with colleagues in the genocide studies community.
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2019 Visiting Scholar in Holodomor Studies: Dr. Iryna Skubii
The 2018–2019 visiting scholar was Dr. Iryna Skubii, an Associate Professor at the Petro Vasylenko Kharkiv National Technical University of Agriculture. Dr. Skubii’s research aims at broadening and rethinking our understanding of the Holodomor from a material perspective.
During her visit, Dr. Skubii delivered two public presentations. The first, titled “The Material World of Ukrainian Children during the Holodomor and What Saved Children’s Lives” was delivered at the Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy, University of Toronto on February 26, 2019. She discussed the importance of material items and commodities in saving children’s lives, both within their families and in orphanages. Focusing on children’s consumer goods, she examined the mechanisms of distribution and allocation of consumer goods as well as the spaces and practices of consumption by children in 1932-1933.
The second presentation, title “Consumption in Soviet Ukraine in the 1920–1930s: Between Ideology and Survival” was delivered at the Shevchenko Scientific Society of Canada on February 8, 2019, where Dr. Skubii presented her research on material culture in Ukraine in the 1920–1930s.
