Is personal engagement in war possible in an interconnected digital world? The war in Ukraine has provided an opportunity for coders and hacktivists to use their technical skills to help Ukraine resist the territorial invasion by the Russian Federation. We will discuss the rapid deployment of these new “cyber-partisans” and explore the geopolitical and ethical repercussions of this new form of digital activism.
SPEAKERS
SCOTT SHAPIRO is the Charles F. Southmayd Professor of Law and Professor of Philosophy at Yale Law School. His areas of interest include jurisprudence, international law, constitutional law, criminal law and cybersecurity. He is the author of Legality (2011), The Internationalists (2017) (with Oona Hathaway) and editor of The Oxford Handbook of Jurisprudence and Philosophy of Law (2002) (with Jules Coleman). He earned B.A. and Ph.D. degrees in philosophy from Columbia University and a J.D. from Yale Law School. Shapiro is an editor of Legal Theory and the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. He is also the founding director of the Yale CyberSecurity Lab, which provides cutting-edge cybersecurity and information technology teaching facilities. His next book, entitled Insecurity, details the history and technology of Internet hacking.
YULIANA SHEMETOVETS is a Belarusian activist and spokeswoman on behalf of the Cyber Partisans. She is the Representative on Foreign Affairs of the Suprativ movement, a Belarusian resistance opposition coalition. A director of the organizing committee for the “Belarus Liberty” nonprofit organization, Yuliana is focused on using technology to empower civil societies and to advocate for human rights.
MODERATOR
MARTA KUZMA is a Professor of Art at and the former Dean of the Yale School of Art. She is also the former Chancellor of the Royal Academy of Arts in Stockholm, Sweden. Kuzma arrived in Kyiv in 1990 to found the Soros Center for Contemporary Art where she remained as director through 2000. Kuzma has curated numerous exhibitions including Alchemic Surrender in the Crimean port of Sevastopol in 1994. Her curatorial and academic practice centers around the art’s position within the larger economic and political landscape as reflected in her postgraduate research in aesthetics and art theory from the Center for Research in Modern European Philosophy in London.
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This event is introduced by Molly Bronson, Associate Professor, Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, Department of the History of Art and Director of the Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies Program, Whitney and Betty MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies at Yale University.
This series is organized and supported by REEES: The Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies Program of the Whitney and Betty MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies at Yale University.
This website was designed by Rosa McElheny, Yale MFA ‘19 and Orysia Zabeida, Yale MFA ‘20. with video by Milo Bonacci, Yale MFA ‘21