INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE

The Great Famine in Ukraine: The Holodomor and Its Consequences, 1933 to the Present

17-18 November 2008

Library (2nd Floor)
Harvard Faculty Club
20 Quincy Street
Cambridge, MA  02138


Monday, 17 November 2008:
Session 1: Holodomor: The Dynamics of the Tragedy
9:00 a.m. to 12:00 noon

Session 2: The Short-Term Consequences of the Holodomor: From Famine to War (1933-1939)
1:30 p.m. to 3:45 p.m.

Session 3: The Mid-Term Aftermath of the Famine: The World War II Period
4:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m.

Concert: "Red Earth (Hunger)" - selections from the opera by Virko Baley
8:00 p.m. (Note: Concert only at Swedenborg Chapel, 50 Quincy Street, Cambridge)

Tuesday, 18 November 2008:
Session 4: Population Losses and Demographic Impact
9:00 a.m. to 12:00 noon

Session 5: Long-Term Consequences: Society and Politics
1:30 p.m. to 3:45 p.m.

Session 6: Roundtable Discussion
4:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m.

Keynote Address: with Nicolas Werth of the National Center for Scientific Research (Paris)
8:00 p.m.

Speakers to include: Alexander Babyonyshev (Sergei Maksudov), Karel Berkhoff, Brian Boeck, Hennadii Boriak, Volodymyr Dibrova, Michael S. Flier, George G. Grabowicz, Andrea Graziosi, Lubomyr Hajda, Liudmyla Hrynevych, Heorhii Kasianov, Oleg Khlevniuk, Mark Kramer, Stanislav Kulchytskyi, Hiroaki Kuromiya, Terry Martin, France Meslé, Serhii Plokhii, Roman Serbyn, Yuri Shapoval, Timothy Snyder, Roman Szporluk, Jacques Vallin, Valerii Vasylyev, Oleksandra Veselova, Felix Wemheuer, Nicolas Werth, Oleh Wolowyna, Roman Wysocki, and Hennadii Yefimenko.

*Online pre-registration is now closed. Attendees will be able to register at the door before each session only if space is available.  Note: Registration opens at 8:30 a.m. on the day of the conference. Coffee and tea provided.

Related Events:
Concert: "Red Earth (Hunger)" - selections from the opera by Virko Baley
Monday, November 17, 2008 - 8:00 p.m.; Swedenborg Chapel, 50 Quincy Street, Cambridge.

Documentary Film: "The Living (Zhyvi)" - with the director, Serhiy Bukovsky
*Co-sponsored with the Ukrainian Film Club of Columbia University*
Wednesday, December 3, 2008 - 7:00 p.m.; Tsai Auditorium (Room S-010), CGIS Building South, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge.


Upcoming Lectures and Presentations of Interest (Unless indicated otherwise, events are held from 4-6:00 p.m. in Room S-050 of CGIS Building South):

Monday, November 24
"The Ukrainian Triangle" and the Early Modern European Multiple Borderlands
Liliya Berezhnaya
University of Passau, Germany

Monday, December 1
Cossack Historical Narratives: Visions of the Past and the Construction of Identities in Eighteenth-Century Ukraine
Andriy Bovgyria
Research Fellow, Institute of History of Ukraine, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine
Eugene and Daymel Shklar Fellow, Ukrainian Research Institute

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