How to Hide a Famine – The Holodomor as History and Heuristic

The Toronto Annual Ukrainian Famine Lecture will take place on November 10 (Monday), 7 PM, in-person in the Campbell Conference Facility, Munk School, 1 Devonshire Place, Toronto and online via Zoom.

This year’s speaker is Dr. Henry Prown, the Temerty Postdoctoral Fellow in Holodomor Studies at University of Alberta (2022-25), a specialist in the relationship between Stalinism and the US media in the 1930s.

ABOUT THE EVENT

In his lecture How to Hide a Famine: Holodomor as History and Heuristic, Dr. Henry Prown will look at the dynamics of this Stalinist crime in the context of mass media manipulation in the Depression era. His lecture will shed light on how the Holodomor served as a precursor to further instances of genocidal state violence and denialist propaganda.

ABOUT THE SPEAKER

Dr. Henry Prown is the 2022-25 Temerty Postdoctoral Fellow in Holodomor Studies (CIUS/ University of Alberta). His book Communist Propaganda in Pre-Cold War America: The Daily Worker and the Great Depression will be published by Bloomsbury.

SPONSORS

The Holodomor Research and Education Consortium, Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies, University of Alberta; the Petro Jacyk Program for the Study of Ukraine (Centre for European and Eurasian Studies, University of Toronto); the Canadian Foundation for Ukrainian Studies; the Ukrainian Canadian Congress (Toronto Branch); St. Volodymyr Institute.