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Breaking the Great Silence on Ukraine's Terror-Famine

 

On the 75th Commemoration of the Famine and
the 25th Anniversary of the HURI Famine Project

 

30 November–1 December 2007

Friday, 30 November 2007
4:00–6:00 p.m
Thompson Room, Barker Center

Session 1. Putting Ukraine's Terror-Famine in Its Proper Place: The Historiographic Significance of the HURI Project


17min

Chair: Lubomyr Hajda
Associate Director, Ukrainian Research Institute, Harvard University

Opening Remarks
Michael S. Flier
Director, Ukrainian Research Institute, Harvard University

"The Impact of  the HURI Famine Project on the Study of the History of the USSR and Ukraine"


1hr9min

"The Impact of  the HURI Famine Project on the Study of the History of the USSR and Ukraine"
Hiroaki Kuromiya 
Professor of History, Indiana University


11min

"Working on the HURI Famine Project: A Reminiscence and a  Tribute to Robert Conquest and James Mace"
Leonid Heretz
Professor of History, Bridgewater State College


19min

Discussion

Saturday, 1 December 2007
10:00-12:30
Sever Hall, Room 113

Session 2. Sources Find Their Voice: Uncovering Documentation on Ukraine's Terror-Famine


25min

Chair: Serhii Plokhii
Mykhailo S. Hrushevsky Professor of Ukrainian History, Harvard University

"The Kremlin Bares Its Secrets: Sources on the Famine from the Center of Soviet Power"
Hiroaki Kuromiya 
Professor of History, Indiana University


40min

"Sources and Resources on the Famine in Ukraine's State Archival System"
Hennadii Boriak
Deputy Director General, State Committee on Archives of Ukraine


26min

"Sources on the Famine in Regional Perspective:  The Case of Vinnytsia Oblast"
Roman Podkur
Senior Research Fellow, Institute of History of Ukraine, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine
Eugene and Daymel Shklar Fellow, Ukrainian Research Institute


15min

"Eyewitness Accounts of the Ukrainian Famine"
Leonid Heretz
Professor of History, Bridgewater State College

Saturday, 1 December  2007
2:00–4:00 p.m.
Sever Hall, Room 113

Session 3. The Famine as a Historical Phenomenon: Directions of Future Research. Round Table Discussion


Part 1
1hr8min


Part 2
1hr7min

Chair: George G. Grabowicz
Dmytro Çyzevs'kyj  Professor of Ukrainian Literature, Harvard University

Participants:

Hennadii Boriak
Deputy Director General, State Committee on Archives of Ukraine

Lubomyr Hajda
Associate Director, Ukrainian Research Institute, Harvard University

Leonid Heretz
Professor of History, Bridgewater State College

Hiroaki Kuromiya
Professor of History, Indiana University

Serhii Plokhii
Mykhailo S. Hrushevsky Professor of Ukrainian History, Harvard University

Roman Szporluk
Mykhailo S. Hrushevsky Research Professor of Ukrainian History, Harvard University

 

Closing Remarks
George G. Grabowicz
Dmytro Çyzevs'kyj  Professor of Ukrainian Literature, Harvard University

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