The Famine That Wasn't Forgotten: Ninety Years of Transnational Holodomor Memory Activism
2026 Toronto Annual Famine Lecture
Tuesday 24 November 2026 | 7 p.m. EST
Campbell Conference Facility, Munk School
1 Devonshire Place, Toronto
Reception immediately following.
The lecture will also be broadcast via Zoom.
This year’s Toronto Annual Ukrainian Famine Lecture will be delivered by Dr. Karolina Koziura.
In her lecture “The Famine That Wasn't Forgotten: Ninety Years of Transnational Holodomor Memory Activism,” Dr. Koziura will trace ninety years of transnational Holodomor memory activism, examining how survivors, communities, and activists confronted the political silencing and denial of the Famine and worked to reclaim a suppressed past. With particular attention to women’s activism, Dr. Koziura will explore how women emerged as important agents in preserving, transmitting, and publicly articulating memories of the Famine across generations and borders.
Karolina Koziura is a cultural and historical sociologist who studies legacies of violence, identity formation processes, and memory politics. For more than fifteen years, she has conducted ethnographic and historical research in Ukraine and among the Ukrainian diaspora. Currently, she is a Petro Jacyk Postdoctoral Fellow in Ukrainian Politics, Culture, and Society at the Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy.
Sponsors:
The Toronto Annual Ukrainian Famine Lecture was initiated in 1998 and is organized by CIUS's Holodomor Research and Education Consortium. It is co-sponsored by the Centre for European and Eurasian Studies (CEES), University of Toronto; Canadian Foundation for Ukrainian Studies; Ukrainian Canadian Congress, Toronto; Petro Jacyk Program for the Study of Ukraine, University of Toronto; and St. Volodymyr Institute – SVI (Toronto).