HREC ANNOUNCES PACKED FALL PROGRAM TO SPREAD AWARENESS OF THE HOLODOMOR
The Holodomor Research and Education Consortium (HREC) has announced an ambitious fall program to promote understanding and awareness of the Holodomor. The first event features demographer Oleh Wolowyna, who will speak at University of Toronto on September 15 about the results of recent research conducted by a team of demographers from Ukraine. His talk is entitled, "What We Now Know about the Holodomor: New Research Results."
HREC has organized the conference “Empire, Colonialism, and Famine in Comparative Perspective” to be held October 28, at Knox College, University of Toronto. The conference will bring together presenters on the Irish (Peter Gray, Queen’s University, Belfast), Bengal (Janam Mukherjee, Ryerson University), and Ukrainian (Liudmyla Hrynevych, Academy of Sciences, Ukraine) famines. Mark von Hagen, Arizona State University, and Andrea Graziosi, Italian National Agency for the Evaluation of University and Research, will speak to the differences and commonalities of these events. Graduate students and early career scholars have received stipends to support attendance.
On October 29, Liudmyla Hrynevych will present on “The Holodomor and the Language of Hate in Stalinist Propaganda” at St. Vladimir Institute in Toronto. Dr. Hrynevych is Director of the Holodomor Research and Education Centre in Kyiv and Senior Scholar at the Institute of the History of Ukraine of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine. The event is co-sponsored by the Ukrainian Canadian Research and Documentation Centre and St. Vladimir Institute.
This year’s speaker for the Toronto Annual Ukrainian Famine Lecture on November 11 is Serhii Plokhy, Mykhailo S. Hrushevs'kyi Professor of Ukrainian History and the Director of Ukrainian Research Institute at Harvard University. Professor Plokhy’s lecture is titled “The Fields of Sorrow: Mapping the Great Ukrainian Famine.” The event will be held at the Campbell Conference Facility at the Munk School, University of Toronto. In addition, Dr. Plokhy will participate in a roundtable discussion on the researching and writing of history organied for graduate students of the Centre for European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies (CERES), University of Toronto.
The lectures by Professor Plokhy and Dr. Wolowyna and the conference in October are co-sponsored with the Petro Jacyk Program for the Study of Ukraine at the Centre for European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies (CERES), University of Toronto. The Annual Ukrainian Famine Lecture is also supported by the Canadian Foundation for Ukrainian Studies and the Ukrainian Canadian Research and Documentation Centre, and the Ukrainian Canadian Congress (Toronto branch).
In the sphere of education, HREC Director of Education Valentina Kuryliw will be traveling in Ukraine in September to conduct workshops and seminars for educational professionals on the teaching of the Holodomor. She has been invited to conduct a master class for 70 Ukrainian teachers of history and social studies and Ministry of Education staff in Kyiv September 9-10 and on teaching the Holodomor, using the latest pedagogical approaches and resources, at the Holocaust Museum of Dnipro (formerly Dnipropetrovsk) for some 120 educators on September 11.
HREC will also be represented at the annual conference of the main professional organization in Slavic studies, the Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies (ASEEES), to be held November 17-20 in Washington, DC. Bohdan Klid (CIUS-Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies, University of Alberta), who is Director of Education for HREC, will present on "Early Ukrainian Émigré Writings on Collectivization, Deportations and the Famine-Holodomor of 1932-1933: Assessments and Conclusions." HREC advisor Dr. Frank Sysyn (CIUS, University of Alberta) will serve as discussant.
The Holodomor Research and Education Consortium is a project of the Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies, University of Alberta, and was established through generous funding from the Temerty Family Foundation.
