How to Hide a Famine - The Holodomor as History and Heuristic
November 10, 2025 | 7:00PM - 9:00PM
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Online & in-person
Location | In-person: Campbell Conference Facility, 1 Devonshire Place, Toronto, ON, M5S 3K7 & Online via Zoom
Toronto Annual Ukrainian Famine Lecture
ABOUT THE EVENT
In his lecture How to Hide a Famine: Holodomor as History and Heuristic, Dr. Henry Prown looked at the dynamics of this Stalinist crime in the context of mass media manipulation in the Depression era. His lecture shed light on how the Holodomor served as a precursor to further instances of genocidal state violence and denialist propaganda.
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Dr. Henry Prown is the 2022-25 Temerty Postdoctoral Fellow in Holodomor Studies (CIUS/ University of Alberta). His book Communist Propaganda in Pre-Cold War America: The Daily Worker and the Great Depression will be published by Bloomsbury.
Sponsors: The Holodomor Research and Education Consortium, Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies, University of Alberta; the Petro Jacyk Program for the Study of Ukraine (Centre for European and Eurasian Studies, University of Toronto); the Canadian Foundation for Ukrainian Studies; the Ukrainian Canadian Congress (Toronto Branch); St. Volodymyr Institute.