Toronto Annual Ukrainian Famine Lecture 2025

In the lecture How to Hide a Famine: Holodomor as History and Heuristic, Dr. Henry Prown looks at the dynamics of this Stalinist crime in the context of mass media manipulation in the Depression era. His lecture sheds light on how the Holodomor has 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 has been published by Bloomsbury and is available for purchase at: https://www.bloomsbury.com/ca/communi... 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.