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<div><b>Cyber Partisans: An Insider's Interview on Truth, Terror, and
Technology in the Lukashenko Regime</b></div>
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<div>Date:<b> November 18 from 3-5 p.m. EST,</b> registration link
below.</div>
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<div>Organized by Gabriella Coleman (Harvard University), Marijeta
Bozovic (Yale University), and Benjamin Peters (University of
Tulsa)<br>
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<div>Hacktivism is on the rise, and there's a new, notable crew on the
block: the Cyber Partisans. Hailing from Belarus, this collective was
chartered in 2020 to fight and expose the Lukashenko regime. First
hacking a TV station to stream videos of police brutality, their
tactics and interventions have become more diverse, sophisticated, and
wide-ranging in 2021. Collaborating with former police officers and
hacking into government databases, they've landed and analyzed troves
of leaked data that showcase everything from alleged police
informants' names to proof that the regime doctored Covid-19 death
statistics to downplay the severity of the pandemic.<br>
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<div>To learn more about the group's operations and organization,
along with their history, goals, and successes, please join us
on <b>Thursday, November 18, from 3-5 p.m. EST</b> for an
online event featuring the Cyber Partisans' spokesperson, Yuliana
Shemetovets. She will join us live on video and communicate with
several other members of the collective to answer questions from the
event organizers and the audience.<br>
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<div>Yuliana Shemetovets will kick things off by introducing us to the
group. Gabriella Coleman, Professor of Anthropology at Harvard
University, will follow by briefly discussing the history of
hacktivism in light of the Cyber Partisans' accomplishments. We will
then move to the formal question and answer period with Ben Peters,
Associate Professor of Media Studies at the University of Tulsa, and
Marijeta Bozovic, Assistant Professor of Slavic Languages &
Literature at Yale University. We will dedicate the last 40- 50
minutes to a live question and answer period with the audience.</div>
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<div>Registration link: <a
href=
"https://harvard.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_ONWNdHEpSxC0zk68riaoPA">
https://harvard.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_ONWNdHEpSxC0zk68riaoPA</a></div
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<div>To ensure audience members have the time to ask questions, the
event is by invitation only, so please don't share details on social
media. If you'd like to invite someone, please reach out to Julia
Bugiel <a
href="mailto:julia.bugiel@mcgill.ca"><julia.bugiel@mcgill.ca></a
>, and we will send over an invite.<br>
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<div>We look forward to seeing you!<br>
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<div>Gabriella, Marijeta, and Ben <br>
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<div><b>Speaker Bios</b><br>
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<div>Yuliana Shemetovets is a Belarusian activist and spokeswoman on
behalf of the Cyber Partisans. A director of the "Belarus
Liberty" nonprofit organization, she is focused on using
technology to empower civil societies and to advocate for human
rights.<br>
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<div>Gabriella (Biella) Coleman is a full professor in the Department
of Anthropology at Harvard University & is a faculty associate at
the Berkman Center for Internet and Society. She is the author of two
books on computer hackers and the founder and editor of Hack_Curio, a
video portal into the cultures of hacking.<br>
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<div>Marijeta Bozovic is the author of Nabokov's Canon: From Onegin to
Ada (Northwestern University Press, 2016) and an assistant professor
of Slavic languages and literatures, affiliated with Film and media
studies and Women's, gender, and sexuality studies at Yale
University. <br>
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<div>Benjamin Peters is the author of How Not to Network a Nation: The
Uneasy History of the Soviet Internet (the MIT Press 2016, Vucinich
Prize 2017) and an associate professor of Media studies at the
University of Tulsa.</div>
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