How to hide a famine: The Holodomor as history and heuristic
2025 Toronto Annual Famine Lecture
Monday 10 November 2025 | 7 p.m. EST
Campbell Conference Facility, Munk School
1 Devonshire Place, Toronto
Reception immediately following.
Lecture will also be broadcast via Zoom.
This year’s Toronto Annual Ukrainian Famine Lecture will be delivered by Dr. Henry H. Prown.
In his lecture “How to hide a famine: Holodomor as history and heuristic,” Dr. Prown will place the 1932-33 Great Famine in Ukraine at the centre of twentieth-century history. In a Depression-era context, through an examination of forced famine enabled by mass media manipulation, he will explore how the unique dynamics and success of this Stalinist crime presaged the entrenchment of a more general set of first principles around genocidal state violence and denialist propaganda in modernity.
Dr. Henry H. Prown is the 2022–25 Temerty Post-Doctoral Fellow in Holodomor Studies (Holodomor Research and Education Consortium, Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies, at the ɫ) and an instructor in the History, Classics, and Religion Department. He received his doctorate in American Studies at the College of William & Mary (VA). His current research, examining the relationship between Stalinism and the US media in the 1930s, is the subject of the monograph Communist Propaganda in Pre–Cold War America, to be published in the Harvard Cold War Studies Book Series.
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The Toronto Annual Ukrainian Famine Lecture was initiated in 1998 and is organized by CIUS's . It is co-sponsored by the , University of Toronto; ; ; , University of Toronto; and (Toronto).