SHG 2018: Second Symposium on the Holodomor-Genocide |
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Abstract registration deadline | September 30, 2018 |
Submission deadline | September 30, 2018 |
The year 2018 marks the 85th anniversary of the Holodomor-genocide, perpetrated by Joseph Stalin and those around him against Ukrainians in the 1930s. The theme of the second Symposium on the Holodomor-Genocide (SHG 2018) is “Women and Holodomor-Genocide: Victims, Survivors, Perpetrators” and it is dedicated to the memory of millions of innocent victims. All events are scheduled on Friday, October 5, 2018. The program features speakers from Canada, Italy, UK, Ukraine, and the United States, with exhibitions of posters and books, lectures, a one-act play, a film screening, and musical performances.
Submission Guidelines
Multimedia Projects Contest
“Youth Voices Bringing Human Rights to Life”
Seventy years ago the UN General Assembly adopted the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide. This UN Convention on Genocide could never have come to life without the tireless efforts of Raphael Lemkin (1900-1959), a Polish-Jewish lawyer, who coined the term “genocide.” Lemkin raised the issue of the Great Ukrainian Famine when there was a complete international silence on the matter. In his 1953 speech, given at the New York Manhattan Center to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the Great Ukrainian Famine, he applied the term to Stalin’s actions in Ukraine. Highly sensitive to the cultural, not only to the legal aspects, Lemkin emphasized that this genocide decimated Ukrainian culture. Its ramifications far exceeded the physical extermination of the social groups of the Ukrainian society, such as the intelligentsia and the “kulaks.” This year marks the 85th anniversary of the Holodomor-genocide. Holod means “hunger” and moryty means “exterminate” or “starve to death.” More than eighty years after this tragedy, we still struggle to make sense of what happened in Ukraine and the ethnically Ukrainian grain growing regions of the North Caucasus during 1932-1933—why it happened, and how we remember, or fail to remember this genocide.
- August 30 through September 30, 2018
- Sponsored by the Department of History and the Ukrainian National Women’s League of America
- Only one entry per person or team
- All entries must be received by September 30, 2018
A multimedia exhibit (10-20 items in Google Slides, PowerPoint, Prezi) or a documentary (10 minutes) should be accompanied by an annotated bibliography and a process paper (500 words) on the topic of the Holodomor (and other genocides of the twentieth century in a comparative perspective, including the US and international responses). Open to everyone. Three winners will be selected in each category.
- Middle and High School Students
- College and University Students
A panel of judges selected from the experts, culture bearers, and community will select the winners.
To evaluate the quality of submissions, the judges will use scoring rubrics developed by the National History Day (see https://www.nhd.org//sites/default/files/2018themebook.pdf).
Winners will be invited to present their projects in the Henry Madden Library at California State University, Fresno from 8:00 to 8:50 a.m. on Friday, October 5, 2018.
Prizes will be given in each category: First Prize ($300), Second Prize ($200), Third Prize ($100).
Winners and their teachers/instructors will be honored at a reception.
- Submission: Please provide your name, your teacher's/instructor's name, your mailing address, projected graduation year, and title of the multimedia project in the text of e-mail accompanying the submission. The name should not appear on any headers or footers. Please indicate your competition category when you submit your work to Easy Chair at https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=shg2018).
Invited Speakers
Dr. Myroslava Antonovych, Director, Centre for International Human Rights
National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy, Ukraine
“Women and Children as Victims of Genocidal Acts in the Holodomor against the Ukrainian Nation”
9:00 – 10:15 a.m.
Dr. Olga Bertelsen, Visiting Research Scholar, Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies
European University Institute, Florence, Italy
“Women at Sites of Mass Starvation: Ukraine, 1932-1933”
10:30 – 11:45 a.m.
Daria Mattingly, PhD Candidate, Lecturer, Slavonic Studies Department
University of Cambridge, UK
“[Extra]Ordinary Women: Female Perpetrators of the Holodomor”
12:15 – 1:30 p.m.
Jars Balan, Interim Director, Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies
University of Alberta, Canada
“Rhea Clyman: A Forgotten Canadian Eyewitness to the Hunger of 1932”
1:45 – 3:00 p.m.
Dr. Volodymyr Serhiychuk, Professor of History
Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, Ukraine
“To Honor All Innocent Victims of the Holodomor”
3:15 – 4:30 p.m.
Venue
All events are scheduled in Henry Madden Library (Room 2206, South Wing) at California State University, Fresno.
Special Events
Contact
All questions about submissions should be e-mailed to Dr. Victoria A. Malko, Coordinator of the Holodomor Symposium, at vmalko@csufresno.edu
Sponsors
The symposium and special events are hosted by the Department of History at the College of Social Sciences and sponsored by the Associated Students, Inc. and the Ukrainian Genocide Famine Foundation–USA in partnership with the Ukrainian National Women’s League of America’s Branch 111 in Los Angeles, the Ukrainian Heritage Club of Northern California, the Ukrainian-American Coordinating Council, the House of Ukraine in San Diego, the Ukrainian Art Center in Los Angeles, and the Consulate General of Ukraine in San Francisco.