The Holodomor Research and Education Consortium (HREC) announces the Holodomor Workshop, to be held in Toronto May 30-31, 2014.
The workshop will bring together approximately eight graduate students and early career scholars to discuss their work on the Holodomor and to exchange ideas with others in the field, including senior scholars who will be invited to take part. Each session will be devoted to discussion of one paper. The workshop will be conducted in English. Room and board and travel expenses will be covered by HREC.
Deadline for applications and requirements: HREC invites proposals from graduate students and early career scholars (i.e., those who have completed their doctoral degrees within the past five years) in relevant academic disciplines, including history, comparative genocide studies, literature, anthropology, cultural studies, psychology, demography, sociology, and law. Awards will be granted on a competitive basis. To apply, please send a 250-500 word summary of the proposed paper together with a c.v. and one faculty recommendation to hrec@ualberta.ca , subject line: Holodomor Workshop. The deadline for applications is March 1.
Applicants must commit to submitting a paper by May 10. Papers will be circulated among all participants in advance of the workshop.
HREC is a project of the Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies, University of Alberta.
HREC promotes research on the Holodomor and works to ensure that the man-made famine of 1932–33 in Ukraine is represented in curricula.