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HURI Annals

Monday, November 17, 2008
9:00 a.m.–12:00 noon

17min

Opening
Michael S. Flier
Director, Ukrainian Research Institute, Harvard University
Welcome and Opening Remarks
Andrea Graziosi
Professor of History, University of Naples "Federico II", President, Italian Society for the Study of Contemporary History
"And Then What Happened? Conceptualizing a New Agenda for Holodomor and Post- Famine Studies"

Session 1. Holodomor: The Dynamics of the Tragedy

Monday, November 17, 2008
1:30–3:45 p.m.

Session 2. The Short-Term Consequences of the Holodomor: From Famine to War (1933–1939)

21min

Chair:
Terry Martin
George F. Baker III Professor of Russian Studies, Harvard University
Papers:
Yuri Shapoval
Head of Department of Ethnopolitics, Kuras Institute of Political and Ethnic Studies,
National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine
"The Great Famine and Its Link with Repression in Ukraine in 1933-34"

21min

Stanislav Kulchytskyi
Deputy Director, Institute of History of Ukraine, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine
"The Ukrainian Village after the Holodomor"

19min

Hiroaki Kuromiya
Professor of History, Indiana University
"The Impact of the Famine on the City in Ukraine"

13min

Alexander Babyonyshev (Sergei Maksudov)
Center Associate, Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies, Harvard University
"Dehumanization: Changes in Moral-Ethical Consciousness in the Wake of the Famine"

24min

Discussant:
Oleg Khlevniuk
Senior Research Fellow, State Archive of the Russian Federation, Moscow

36min

Open Discussion

Monday, November 17, 2008
4:00–6:00 p.m.

Session 3. The Mid-Term Aftermath of the Famine: The World War II Period

23min

Chair:
Mark Kramer
Director, Cold War Studies Program, Harvard University
Papers:
Roman Wysocki
Assistant Professor, Institute of History, Maria Curie-Sklodowska University, Lublin
"Reactions to the Famine in Poland and Its West Ukrainian Regions"

20min

Karel Berkhoff
Researcher and Associate Professor, Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies,
Amsterdam
"The Great Famine in Light of the German Invasion and Occupation"

22min

Oleksandra Veselova
Senior Research Fellow, Institute of History of Ukraine, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine
"The Soviet Return and the Famine of 1946–47: Complicating the Holodomor in
Retrospect"

44min

Discussant:
Roman Serbyn
Professor of History (Emeritus), University of Quebec at Montreal

8:00 p.m.

CONCERT
Premiere Performance of Selections from the Opera Red Earth (Hunger) by Virko Baley
(with commentary by the composer)

Tuesday, November 18, 2008
9:00 a.m.–12:00 noon.

Session 4. Population Losses and Demographic Impact

Chair:
Lubomyr Hajda
Associate Director, Ukrainian Research Institute, Harvard University
Papers:
Hennadii Boriak
Head of Department of Historiography and Special Historical Disciplines, Institute of History of Ukraine, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine
"Population Losses in the Holodomor: New Archival Evidence"

Jacques Vallin
Research Director, National Institute of Demographic Studies, Paris
"The Crisis of the 1930s: Population Losses in the Aftermath of the Famine"

France Meslé
Research Director, National Institute of Demographic Studies, Paris
"The Long-Term Demographic Impact of the Holodomor"

Discussant:
Oleh Wolowyna
President, Informed Decisions, Inc.

Open Discussion

Tuesday, November 18, 2008
1:30–3:45 p.m.

Session 5. Long-Term Consequences: Society and Politics

Chair:
Roman Szporluk
Mykhailo Hrushevsky Professor of Ukrainian History (Emeritus), Harvard University

Papers:
Valerii Vasylyev
Senior Research Fellow, Institute of History of Ukraine, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine
"The Great Famine in the Eyes of the Soviet Ukrainian Elite (1950s–1970s)"

Heorhii Kasianov
Head of Department of Contemporary History and Politics, Institute of History of Ukraine, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine
"The Holodomor and the Politics of Memory since the 1980s"

Volodymyr Dibrova
Writer-in-Residence and Editor, Ukrainian Research Institute
Preceptor, Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, Harvard University
"The Holodomor and the Contemporary Ukrainian Writer"

Discussant:
George G. Grabowicz
Dmytro Cyzevs'kyj Professor of Ukrainian Literature, Harvard University

Open Discussion

Tuesday, November 18, 2008
4:00–6:00 p.m.

Session 6. Roundtable Discussion

Chair:
Serhii Plokhii
Mykhailo Hrushevsky Professor of Ukrainian History, Harvard University
Speakers:
Andrea Graziosi
Professor of History, University of Naples "Federico II", President, Italian Society for the Study of Contemporary History

Roman Szporluk
Mykhailo Hrushevsky Professor of Ukrainian History (Emeritus), Harvard University

Felix Wemheuer
Assistant Professor of East Asian Studies, University of Vienna; Visiting Scholar, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, Harvard University

Timothy Snyder
Professor of History, Yale University

Open Discussion
Lubomyr Hajda
Associate Director, Ukrainian Research Institute, Harvard University

8:00 p.m.

Keynote Address
Nicolas Werth
Research Director, National Center for Scientific Research, Paris

Concluding Remarks
Andrea Graziosi
Professor of History, University of Naples "Federico II", President, Italian Society for the Study of Contemporary History
Michael S. Flier
Director, Ukrainian Research Institute, Harvard University