The Zenowia and George Jurkiw
Ukrainian Historical Encounters Series
A Special Event:
Taking Measure of the Holodomor
November 5-6, 2013
Princeton Club
15 West 43th Street
New York City
Day One
Forum Venue: Nassau Room/PC
8:00 am – 8:30 am – Registration/Breakfast
8:30 am – 9:00 am – A First Word Concerning the ‘Great Ukrainian Famine of 1932-33’
Chair:
- Lubomyr Hajda [Harvard University]
Featured Speaker:
- Mark von Hagen [Arizona State University]
9:00 am – 10:10 am – Session I: Why Did the Holodomor Happen?
Moderator:
- Frank Sysyn [University of Toronto]
Speakers:
- Ludmila Hrynevych [UA National Academy of Sciences]
- Roman Serbyn [University of Quebec in Montreal]
10:10 am – 11:20 am – Session II: How Did the Holodomor Happen?
Moderator:
- Bohdan Klid [University of Alberta]
Speakers:
- Stanislav Kulchytsky [UA National Academy of Sciences]
- Andrea Graziosi [Università di Napoli]
11:20 am – 12:30 pm – Session III: Where did the Holomodor Happen?
Moderator:
- Serhii Plokhii [Harvard University]
Speaker:
- Gennadi Poberezny/Kostyantyn Bodnarenko [Harvard University]
- Joseph Livesey [New York University]
12:30 pm – 1:00 pm – Break
Lunch served in the JMR-BA
1:00 pm – 1:30 pm – Forum Focus Event I: Contextualizing the Holodomor
Chair:
- John Micgiel [Columbia University]
Featured Speaker:
- Anne Applebaum [Pulitzer Prize Winning Author of ‘Gulag’ and ‘Iron Curtain’]
1:30 pm – 2:40 pm – Session IV: Who Carried Out the Holodomor?
Moderator:
- Jars Balan [University of Alberta]
Speakers:
- Yuri Shapoval [UA National Academy of Sciences]
- Robert Kusnierz [Pomeranian University]
2:40 pm – 3:50 pm – Session V: Who Suffered from the Holodomor?
Moderator:
- Marta Baziuk [University of Toronto]
Speakers:
- Nicolas Werth [Institut d’Historie du Temps Présent/CNRS]
- Hennadi Yefimenko [UA National Academy of Sciences]
3:50 pm – 5:00 pm – Session VI: How Many Suffered from the Holodomor
Moderator:
- Andrij Makuch [University of Toronto]
Speakers:
- Oleh Wolowyna {University of North Carolina]
- Natalia Levchuk [UA National Academy of Sciences]
6:30 pm – 9:00 pm – Speakers and Patrons Reception [By Invitation Only]
Venue: Ukrainian Museum
Event Host:
- Valentina Kuryliw [Canadian Ukrainian Congress Holodomor Committee]/li>
Highlight Theme: Holodomor’s Impact on General Political Discourse Over the Decades
Featured Speaker:
- Herman Pirchner [President of the American Foreign Policy Council]/li>
A Tribute to the Pioneers of Holodomor Studies:
- Viktor Rud [Veteran of the ‘Firing Line Broadcast’ Campaign]
Day Two
Forum Venue: Dickinson Room/PC
8:00 am – 8:30 am – Registration/Breakfast
8:30 am – 9:40 am – Session VII: Political/Socio-Economic Consequences of the Holodomor
Moderator:
- Alexander Motyl [Rutgers University]
Speakers:
- Vladislav Hrynevych [UA National Academy of Sciences]
- Oxana Shevel [Tufts University]
9:40 am – 10:50 am – Session VIII: Cultural/Socio-Psychological Consequences of the Holodomor
Moderator:
- Myroslava Znayenko [Rutgers University]
Speakers:
- George Grabowicz [Harvard University]
- Olya Andriewsky [Trent University]
10:50 am – 12:00 pm – Session IX: The Holodomor Through the Prism of Contemporaneous Mass Media
Moderator:
- Halyna Hryn [Harvard University]
Speakers:
- Nigel Colley [Gareth Jones Archives]/Andrew Stuttaford [NRO]
- Serhii Cipko [University of Alberta]
12:00 pm – 12:30 pm – Break
Lunch served in the JMR-BA
12:30 pm – 1:00 pm – Forum Focus Event II: The Holodomor as Genocide – Legal Developments and Covenants
Chair:
- Mark Andrycyzk [Columbia University]
Featured Speaker:
- Bohdan Futey [US Court of Federal Claims]
1:00pm – 2:10 pm – Session X: The Holodomor on the Pages of Contemporaneous Government Archives
Chair:
- Taras Hunczak [Rutgers University]
Speakers:
- Volodymyr Vyatrovych [National University of Kyiv Mohyla Academy]
- Lubomyr Luciuk [Royal Military College of Canada]
2:10 pm – 3:20 pm – Session XI: The Holodomor – Responsibility and Redress
Moderator:
- Yaroslav Bilinsky [University of Delaware]
Speakers:
- Valerii Vasylyev [UA National Academy of Sciences]
- Jan Jacek Bruski [Jagiellonian University]
3:20 pm – 4:30 pm – Session XII: The Holodomor – Remorse, Reconciliation, Denial
Moderator:
- Natalya Pylypiuk [University of Alberta]
Speakers:
- Myroslav Shkandrij [University of Manitoba]
- Vladyslav Verstyuk [Ukrainian Institute of National Remembrance]
4:30 pm – 5:00 pm – Holodomor Studies – Future Challenges and Future Approaches
Chair:
- Evhen Czoliy [President of the Ukrainian World Congress]
Featured Speaker:
- Alexander Hinton [President/International Association of Genocide Scholars]
- Douglas Irwin [Director of Outreach/Center for Study of Genocide/Rutgers U]
6:30 pm – 9:30 pm – Reception/Commemoration of the 80th Anniversary of the Holodomor
Venue: Ukrainian Institute of America
Event Host:
- Oksana Kulynych [US Holodomor Education Committee]
Featured Reflections:
- Michael Sawkiw [US National Holodomor Committee]
- Stefan Romaniw [Ukrainian World Congress Holodomor Committee]
- Jan Pieklo [Polish Ukrainian Cooperation Foundation/PAUCI]
- Victor Goldbloom [Canadian Jewish Congress]
Tribute to the Survivors of the Holodomor:
- Tamara Gallo-Olexy [President of the Ukrainian Congress Committee of America]
Host Moderator for Forum: Volodymyr Zaryckyj/Center for US-Ukrainian Relations