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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