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DESCRIPTION:Join the KU Center for Russian\, East European\, and Eurasian S
 tudies (CREES) for the first lecture in the series “Information Wars and th
 e Battle for History."\n\nDr. Rebecca Johnston (KU CREES) will give a talk 
 titled "We Are an Empire: History and Culture in Wartime Russia" on Thursda
 y September 26 at 4:00pm in the English Room of the KU Memorial Union. Paid
  parking is available in the union parking garage using the ParkMobile app 
 (zone 3930) or parking garage payment kiosk.\n\nIn recent years\, the Russi
 an government has increasingly incorporated history into its official conce
 ptions of national security and sovereignty writ large. Many commentators a
 nd analysts have\, for their part\, framed Russian foreign policy and milit
 ary aggression as part of an extended historical narrative: that Vladimir P
 utin is seeking to resurrect the Soviet Union\, or sees himself as a modern
 -day Peter the Great. Meanwhile\, the Russian government has poured signifi
 cant resources into instrumentalizing historical narratives and leveraging 
 them towards policy goals. Those efforts have become increasingly dogmatic 
 as Russia’s war against Ukraine continues to grind on with no end in sight.
  This talk will address important questions about the implications of these
  practices. How does the Kremlin’s preoccupation with history impact popula
 tions in both Ukraine and Russia itself? To what extent are state policies 
 rooted in Russia’s own history of empire\, and how much do they constitute 
 something different and new? What can the weaponization of history tell us 
 about the Russian government’s priorities and intentions—both at home and a
 broad\, especially in Ukraine?\n\n\nRebecca Adeline Johnston is the inaugur
 al Cyber Social Fellow at the University of Kansas\, where she conducts res
 earch on the intersection of Russian and Soviet history\, culture\, and inf
 ormation warfare. She holds a Ph.D. in history from the University of Texas
 -Austin. Her expertise includes the history of culture\, ideology\, and gov
 ernance across the Russian\, Soviet\, and post-Soviet space. She has previo
 usly held positions at UT-Austin as Postdoctoral Fellow at the Institute fo
 r Historical Studies\, National Security Fellow at the Clements Center for 
 National Security\, project lead at the Strauss Center for International Se
 curity and Law\, and has additionally worked in international human rights.
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SUMMARY:We Are An Empire: History and Culture in Wartime Russia
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 artime-russia
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