Workshop: Colonial Famine and Historical Memory: Perspectives on the Great Hunger (An Gorta Mór) and the Holodomor

This workshop will address the following WI Standards for Social Studies:

• Standard SS.Econ4: Wisconsin students will evaluate government decisions and their impact on individuals, businesses, markets, and resources (Role of Government).
• Standard SS.Geog3: Wisconsin students will examine the impacts of global interconnections and relationships.
• Standard SS.Hist1: Wisconsin students will use historical evidence for determining cause and effect.
• Standard SS.Hist3: Wisconsin students will connect past events, people, and ideas to the present; use different perspectives to draw conclusions; and suggest current implications.

This workshop will also address Wisconsin Act 30: Teaching the Holocaust and Other Genocides in Social Studies, as well as the 2003 Wisconsin Act 305: designating a school observance day March 17, for “The Great Hunger” in Ireland from 1845 to 1850.

Volodymyr Dubovyk is an Associate Professor, Department of International Relations and Director, Center for International Studies, Odesa I. I. Mechnikov National University (Ukraine). V. Dubovyk has conducted research at the Kennan Institute, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars (1997, 2006-2007), at the Center for International and Security Studies at the University of Maryland (2002), taught at the University of Washington (Seattle) in 2013 and at St. Edwards university/University of Texas (Austin) in 2016-17. Volodymyr has been a Fulbright Scholar twice. He is the co-author of “Ukraine and European Security” (Macmillan, 1999) and has published numerous articles on US-Ukraine relations, regional and international security, and Ukraine’s foreign policy. Currently he is a Visiting Professor at the Tufts University (2022-2023 academic year). He was also a recipient of the emergency grant from the Kennan Institute (2022), George Washington University (2022-2023) and University of Toronto (2022-2023). His areas of expertise include Ukraine, Transatlantic Relations, U.S., Black Sea security, and security studies.

Mary Trotter is an Associate Professor of English and Interdisciplinary Theatre Studies at UW-Madison.  Trained as a theatre historian, she is the author of two books about Irish theatre: Ireland’s National Theaters: Political Performance and the Origins of the Irish Dramatic Movement (Syracuse 2001), and Modern Irish Theatre (Polity 2008). She is a former president of the American Conference for Irish Studies, an international organization supporting Irish studies research across disciplines in the United States.

Registration cost (includes lunch and coffee breaks): $35 for in-service teachers, $20 for pre-service teachers. Please note: once paid, registration fees are non-refundable. These fees are used to provide lunch and refreshments during the workshop.

Registration fee payment can be made via check (please email sarah.linkert@wisc.edu when you mail your check so we know it’s on its way). Please make checks payable to the University of Wisconsin-Madison and send to the attention of:

Sarah Linkert
Assistant Director
Center for Russia, East Europe, and Central Asia
University of Wisconsin-Madison
210 Ingraham Hall
1155 Observatory Dr.
Madison, WI 53706

If you are unable to pay the registration fee via check, please contact us at the email address below for alternative payment methods.

Saturday, February 4, 2023
8:30-9:00 a.m. – Check-In
9:00 a.m. – Welcome and Introduction
9:10-10:10 a.m. – Group Activity
10:10-10:20 – Break
10:20-11:50 – Presentation and Q&A with Dr. Mary Trotter (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
11:50-1:00 – Lunch
1:00-2:30 – Presentation and Q&A with Dr. Volodymyr Dubovyk (Tufts University)
2:30-2:40 Break
2:40-3:30 Synthesizing Activity

Limited financial assistance will be available to cover hotel costs for attendees coming from outside Dane County and will be made available on a first-come, first-served basis. Eligible (i.e., Wisconsin teachers from outside of Dane County) workshop attendees who would like to request financial aid to cover hotel and/or parking costs for the workshop duration should indicate this on their registration form; a workshop organizer will then follow up with you via email.

Limited financial assistance may also be available to help cover the workshop registration fee. If the registration fee poses a hardship, please reach out to Sarah Linkert (sarah.linkert@wisc.edu).

The first 10 registrants will receive a complimentary copy of Red Famine: Stalin’s War on Ukraine by Anne Applebaum. Attendees can also receive a free copy of this book by referring a colleague or fellow teacher who registers and attends the workshop. You can refer a friend via the registration form. **Please note that the Referral Incentive Program will end at 4 p.m. on Thursday, January 12**

If you are one of the first 10 registrants, a workshop organizer will notify you via email.

Each attendee may receive only one copy of the book (i.e., if you are one of the first 10 people to register and you refer a friend, you will receive one book copy only). Book incentives will be distributed on the day of the workshop; registrants must attend the workshop to receive their prize.