Qianrui Hu is a PhD student at School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University College London. For his PhD project, he is looking at how people from Donbas make sense of their ethnic, regional, and Ukrainian national identity in their personal life stories, with an emphasis on how the ongoing war has been reshaping their interpretations of themselves and their sense-making of the above-mentioned identity categories. Currently, he is conducting his fieldwork in Poland and Germany, interviewing people who are originally from Donbas. In the seminar, he will introduce his theoretical and methodological framework of his PhD studies and share some of his initial findings and thoughts out of the fieldwork, in particular regarding the relationship between memory, experience, and temporality in the people's comparison between the initial stage of the war in 2014 and 2022.
Do. 23 Nov. 2023
