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2025 “Edible or Fatal? Wild Plants and the Uncertainties of Survival During the Soviet Famines in Ukraine.” History and Philosophy Seminars, University of Melbourne. 20 August.
2025 “Sunflower in Ukraine: History of Plant and Its Place in Time, Space, and Culture.” Talk at the Glier Music Academy of Ukraine, Kyiv. 20 January (online).
2025 “Women and Materiality Amidst Russia’s War in Ukraine: Between Survival, Belonging, and Solidarity Networks.” Polish Academy of Sciences, Institute of Philosophy and Sociology. Invited by Anna Wylegała (online).
2024 – “Place, Land, and Famine: Towards Environmental History of Soviet Famines in Ukraine.” BOMOCULT Research Community and The VERA Centre for Russian and Border Studies. University of Eastern Finland. August 26. [Please email to get a link].
2024 – World Environmental History Congress. “Writing the history of Ukraine’s modern famines: between national, environmental, and postcolonial.” Panel “Countering Colonialities in Studying and Narrating Ukraine’s Environmental Histories, Presents, and Futures” (organized with Tanya Richardson, Daria Tsymbaliuk, and Anna Olenenko). August 21-24.
2023 – “Materiality of Survival during the Holodomor: from Object to Memory.” The Shevchenko Scientific Society of Canada, Edmonton. Invited by Larysa Bilous. December 6. VIDEO.
2023 – ASEEES Annual Convention, Philadelphia. “Looking from the Ground Level: Environmental History on Ukraine’s Holodomor.” Roundtable member: “Eurasia in the Era of the “Post” (-Colonial, -Socialist, -Soviet): What’s at Stake in Naming the Region.” November 30 – December 3.
2023 – Commemoration 90th Anniversary of the Holodomor. Organized by the Association of Ukrainians in Viktoria, Ukrainian People House, Melbourne. Invited by Marko Pavlyshyn. November 25.
2023 – Genealogies of Memory 2023: Pandemics, famines and industrial disasters of the 20th and 21st centuries.“Beyond “Soviet Modernity”: Famines Ecology, Environment, and Survival in Ukraine.” University of Warsaw, November 22-24 (online). VIDEO.
2023 – Panel “The Genocide of Ukrainians: 90 Years After the Holodomor.” Humphrey School of Public Affairs. University of Minnesota. November 16. Speaker. VIDEO.
September 28, 2023 – Danyliw Seminar in Ukrainian Studies, University of Ottawa. The Catastrophic Consequences of Soviet Famines in Ukraine: Environment, Animals, and Material Losses. VIDEO.
November 17, 2022 – Fulbright Ukraine Series of Panel Discussions. “Past and Present Atrocities in Ukraine: Can They Be Qualified as Genocide (and How)?” Panel 1. “Through Famine, Terror, and Atrocities: Ukraine’s Soviet and Contemporary Experience.” Environment and Materiality of Ukraine’s Soviet Famines: Losses Beyond the Numbers. PANEL VIDEO.
November 3, 2022 – Helsinki Environmental Studies Forum. Helsinki University. Animals and/in Soviet Famines in Ukraine. Where Is an Animal in Famine Studies? VIDEO.
Sept. 27-28, 2022 – Holodomor in Global Perspective, Cambridge University. 1) Materialities of Survival. What Can Objects Tell Us about the Famine? 2) The (Un)Seen Famine in Soviet Ukraine: Holodomor Through the Spanish Eyes (with Roser Alvarez-Klee). PANEL VIDEO.
Sept. 21-23, 2022 – European Famines: Between the History and Memory (19th and 20th Centuries), University of Granada. 1) Animals and/in Soviet Famines in Ukraine. Where Is an Animal in Famine Studies? 2) The (Un)Seen Famine in Soviet Ukraine: Holodomor Through the Spanish Eyes (with Roser Alvarez-Klee).
February 3-5, 2022 – Poverty and Scarcity in Global History, Queen’s University in Kingston. Being Poor During a Famine: Materialities of Survival in Soviet Ukraine.
September 28, 2021 – Helsinki Environmental Humanities Forum. Helsinki University. Food waste, famine, and survival: the environmental history of the Holodomor. VIDEO.
September 9, 2021 – Lecture programme “Lost Childhood.” Museum “Territory of Terror.”(Non)children experiences of survival during the Holodomor: looking from the prism of materiality and environment. (L’viv, Ukraine). VIDEO.
February 24, 2020 – Folklore Lunches. Kule Folklore Centre. University of Alberta. The Dream World of Consumer Department Stores in Early Soviet Ukraine. VIDEO.
October 24, 2019 – The Shevchenko Scientific Society of Canada, Edmonton. Learn to Consume in a Soviet Way: New Practices of Consumption in Early Soviet Society. VIDEO.
July 3, 2018 – Online Program “History with Meat.” The Department Store: History and the Present Life of Space. VIDEO.
Iryna Skubii 