Join Christine Evans, Associate Professor of History at the UW-Milwaukee, to explore both the long history of the Russian state’s efforts to conquer its Western neighbors and decide who and where is Russian, and the imperialist narratives that have accompanied and sought to justify that effort.

The afternoon will feature film clips from the PBS documentary Freedom Summer, a chronicling of the 1964 fight among civil rights activists to increase voter registration among Black Mississippians against seemingly insurmountable odds.