Toronto Annual Famine Lecture
Inaugurated in 1998 by the CIUS Toronto Office in partnership with the Toronto branch of the Ukrainian Canadian Congress and, subsequently, the Petro Jacyk Program for the Study of Ukraine at the University of Toronto’s Centre for European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies. The longest-running annual lecture on the Holodomor, today it is organized by the Holodomor Research and Education Consortium in conjunction with the original partners, the Canadian Foundation for Ukrainian Studies, and St. Vоlоdymyr Institute.
How to hide a famine: The Holodomor as history and heuristic
2025 Toronto Annual Famine Lecture
With Dr. Henry H. Prown
Monday 10 November 2025 | 7 p.m. EST
2025 | "How to hide a famine: The Holodomor as history and heuristic", Presented by Henry H. Prown
2024 | "A Million Deaths is a Statistic: A History of Famine Denialism", Presented by Alex de Waal
2023 | "From Stalin to Putin: Analyzing Moscow's Genocide 90 Years After the Holodomor", Presented by Kristina Hook
2022 | "Understanding Russia's War on Ukraine Through the Holodomor", Presented by Daria Mattingly
2021 | "Not by Starvation Alone: Stalinist Cultural Genocide in Ukraine," Presented by Serhy Yekelchyk
2020 | "The Last Stand: The Third All-Ukrainian Conference of the Communist Party (bolsheviks) of Ukraine and the Holodomor," Presented by Bohdan Klid
2019 | "Remembering the Terror-Famine: Memory and Meaning in the Early Years of the Cold War," Presented by Olga Andriewsky
2018 | "Genocide in Ukraine: The Holodomor and its Lessons for the Future," Presented by Liudmyla Hrynevych
2017 | ""Tell the Kremlin we are starving; we have no bread!” Rhea Clyman’s 1932 Odyssey through the “Famine Lands” of Ukraine," Presented by Jars Balan
2016 | "The Fields of Sorrow: Mapping the Great Ukrainian Famine" Presented by Serhii Plokhy
2015 | "The Ukrainian Famine as World History," Presented by Timothy Snyder
2014 | "Why Stalin feared Ukraine and why Putin fears it today," Presented by Anne Applebaum
2013 | "The Holodomor (Famine in Ukraine), 1932–33: The View from the Polish Foreign Office" Presented by Robert Kuśnier
2012 | "The Holodomor and History: Bringing Ukrainians Back In," Presented by Alexander Motyl