“Technology and Ukraine: Between a Global History and a Future”
Dr. Ben Peters
Hazel Rogers Associate Professor & Chair, University of Tulsa
In the last ten years, US politics has fractured along the narrative fault lines of Ukraine
and information technologies (stories about laptops, email servers, hackers, and now
the disinformation fog of war). Why Ukraine? What is at stake in such stories? Where
does a global history of technology intersect Ukraine, and what does that history
portend for the future of Ukraine, our digital environments, and geopolitics in the second
month of a second Trump administration?
Benjamin Peters is a media scholar often focused on the surprising lessons of the
Soviet century. The author and editor of several award-winning books and volumes, he
is the Hazel Rogers Associate Professor and Chair at the University of Tulsa as well as
affiliated fellow at the Information Society Project at Yale Law School. More at
benjaminpeters.org