Tradiciškai Vilniaus universiteto Istorijos fakulteto bendruomenė metus baigia susiburdama į išskirtinį renginį – Metų paskaitą. Bendruomenei ir visiems fakulteto bičiuliams skirto renginio metu pristatomi aktualiausi fakulteto aplinkoje gimę istoriniai tyrimai ir atradimai, naujausios knygos ar įgyvendinti projektai. Nuo 2014 metų paskaitas jau yra skaitę archeologai Albinas Kuncevičius, Justina Kozokaitė, Gintautas Vėlius, istorikai Martynas Jakulis ir Nerijus Šepetys, Aurimas Švedas, Tomas Čelkis, antropologas Donatas Brandišauskas.
2022 m. gruodžio 19 d. 17:30 Istorijos fakulteto 211 aud. Metų paskaitą Information war: how the Soviet/Russian propaganda discredited the Holodomor of 1932-1933" skaitys dr. Tetiana Boriak.
Renginio kalba - anglų.
The Holodomor has survived in collective memory of Ukrainians as an event that drastically broke lives of millions of people. Scale of catastrophe can be traced in the historical sources of various types and authorship. The Soviet regime did it best to keep this crime hidden and involved the wide scale of instruments. There are three periods of information war which was aimed to discredit the testimonies about the famine: 1930s, 1945–1980s, and post 1991. The different instruments depending on time, geography and spread of knowledge about the famine were used. Creating various narratives, the Soviet/Russian state was rather successful in hiding not only the traces but also discrediting the famine itself, as well as its survivors and historians who were researching the Holodomor. The knowledge of these instruments and narratives can give us an important approach to the Holodomor studies and, in broader sense, can bring the better understanding of Ukrainian history, Russian imperial ambitions, and the contemporary war in Ukraine.
Tetiana Boriak – is Ukrainian historian (PhD in history), assistant professor, a researcher at the Faculty of History, Vilnius University. She received the fellowship of Marius Jakulis Jason foundation in 2022. She studied at the University of Kansas (USA) and got her master degree in History. She is the author of two books. One of the book 1933: “Why Are You Still Alive?” was the prize winner of 2016 Book of the Year in the category “Research/Documents” in Ukraine. She was Fulbright Fellow at Harvard University (Ukrainian Research Institute) in 2013–2014 with the project GIS-Atlas of the Holodomor. She was the host of the Ukrainian TV programme History with meat (Istoriia z m’iasom) in 2017-2018, and 2019–2022. The programme had 70 series, all of them are available on YouTube channel. Tetiana Boriak is the author of more than 60 articles, she is actively participating in the national and international conferences and she is involved in various science dissemination activities.