The Great Famine-Genocide in Soviet Ukraine (Holodomor)

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INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE AT COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY
The Man-Made Great Famine in Ukraine of 1932-33 (Holodomor)
  

Monday, November 10, 2003, International Affairs Building 1501 Columbia University, NY, NY, 9:15 A.M.

 

 

Co-hosts/sponsors: the Ukrainian Studies Program, the Harriman Institute, Columbia University; the Ukrainian Mission to the United Nations, the Shevchenko Scientific Society, the Ukrainian Congress Committee of America; the Ukrainian Academy of Arts and Sciences in America

 

9:15-9:30: Welcome and Opening remarks: Mark von Hagen and others

 

9.30-11.45: Panel One, National and International Response to the Man-Made Famine: The Politics of Acknowledgement
Chair: Mark von Hagen, Columbia University
Ambasssador Valeriy P. Kuchinsky, Ukrainian government efforts in the UN
Former Foreign Minister Anatoliy Zlenko, Ukrainian government efforts, Kyiv
Dr. James Mace, the US Congress Commission and the Verkhovna Rada hearings
Dr. Margaret Siriol Colley, author, Gareth Jones: A Manchukuo Incident

 

12-1 pm: Invited lunch for conference participants only

 

1:00-2:30, Panel Two: Archival Evidence Since the End of the Soviet Union
Chair: Mark von Hagen, Columbia University
Volodymyr Lozytskyi, Director, TsDAHO, Kyiv, Communist Party Documents (former party archive)
Volodymyr Danylenko, Director, Kyiv Oblast Archive, Documents in Kyiv Oblast Archive
Yury Shapoval, historian, Institute of Political Analysis, Kyiv, Documents in SBU and FSB (Russia) archives
Leonard Leshuk, historian, (author, US Intelligence Perceptions of Soviet Power, 1921-1946), Washington, DC, Declassified Documents in US Intelligence Archives

 

2:45-4:15, Panel Three: Ukrainian Famine-Genocide in Memory and the Arts
Chair: Professor Myroslava Znayenko, Rutgers University
Dr. James Mace, Oral History among Diaspora Ukrainians
Roman Krutsyk, chairman, Memorial, Kyiv, Oral History in Post-Soviet Ukraine
Professor Laryssa Onyshkevych, President, Shevchenko Scientific Society

 

5 pm: Opening of Exhibit at Ukrainian Mission

 

We gratefully acknowledge the support of Primary Source Microfilms/Gale Group in making possible the travel of our Ukrainian guests. Sincere thanks also go to Rory Finnin and Marko Suprun for their assistance in translating texts from Ukrainian to English, and to Morgan Williams of  www.ArtUkraine.com  for providing the cover artwork
 
 

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