Episode 18: Researching Polish Displaced Persons and Uncovering the 'Hidden Histories' of Queer Displaced People, Guest: Samantha Knapton

Episode 18: Researching Polish Displaced Persons and Uncovering the 'Hidden Histories' of Queer Displaced People, Guest: Samantha Knapton

In this 18th episode of the podcast, the focus is on Samantha Knapton's research into contemporary Polish history, particularly the history of Polish migration in the 20th century and the history of displaced persons. In this episode, Franziska Lamp-Miechowiecki talks to Samantha Knapton about her book, 'Occupiers, Humanitarian Workers, and Polish Displaced Persons in British-Occupied Germany', which was published by Bloomsbury Academic in 2023. The episode also covers Knapton's experiences teaching migration history at the University of Nottingham and her recent research into the history of displaced queer people.

Redaktion: Franziska Lamp-Miechowiecki
Produktion: Magdalena Ragl

Musik verwendet von: https://gemafreie-musik-online.de

Dr Samantha K. Knapton [she/her] is an Assistant Professor in History at the University of Nottingham, UK. She is an historian of central and east-central Europe, forced displacement, and international humanitarianism. In 2023, she has published her first monograph, Occupiers, Humanitarian Workers, and Polish Displaced Persons in British-occupied Germany and a co-edited volume with Katherine Rossy, Relief and Rehabilitation for a Postwar World: Humanitarian Intervention and the UNRRA - both at Bloomsbury. Her recent project (2023-24) with Queer Britain museum, London, hosted a series of workshops on uncovering 'hidden histories 'through researching, teaching, and curating, with a concentration on doubly-marginalised histories of queer refugees post-1945 and she recently started to build a collaboration with (and between) Queer Britain and Queer Museum, Warsaw. Her current and ongoing research focuses on queer histories of displacement in the aftermath of the Second World War.