Sebastian Graf

I am a PhD Candidate in History at Lund University since August 2021. My project explores digital memory politics and uses of history in contemporary Ukraine. In particular, I am focusing on the ways the ongoing Russian invasion in Ukraine since 2014 is mediated and remembered in digital spaces. How does virtuality as a modality of remembering inform our understanding of an unfolding war? To this end, I map the embeddedness of Ukrainian virtual museums in today’s connective environment of human and non-human elements. By combining, new materialist thinking, digital methods, and digital ethnography, I am shedding light on the ways virtual museums assemble renderings of war and how people are making sense out of it.