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.

Location
In-person: Campbell Conference Facility, 1 Devonshire Place, Toronto, ON, M5S 3K7
Online via Zoom

Speakers

Dr. Henry Prown

Department of History, Classics, and Religion, University of Alberta

Karolina Koziura

Moderator
Petro Jacyk Postdoctoral Fellow, Centre for European and Eurasian Studies (CEES)