As part of the DFG and FWF-funded DACH cooperation project Norms, Regulations and Refugee Agency. Negotiating the Migration Regimes of the University of Osnabrück and the University of Vienna, the third episode of the Transit Podcast, has been released. The podcast is dedicated to central aspects of migration history and offers insights into the research of different academics in an interview format.

In the third episode, our colleague Franziska Lamp from the University of Vienna, talks to Dr. Katie McElvanney, the Curator of Slavonic and East European collections at the British Library, with particular responsibility for the Ukrainian and Belarusian collections. Her current research interests include the Library’s holdings of displaced persons (DP) camp publications.

The second guest was Anna Isaieva, a Ph.D. fellow in cultural history at the Section of Eastern European Studies at Lund University, Sweden. Her dissertation is focused on ethnic groups and their interrelationships in Kyiv during World War One and the Russian revolutions. She holds an MA in history and archaeology from Kyiv-Mohyla Academy (Ukraine) and MA in Eastern European Studies from Warsaw University (Poland).

The episode focuses on the provenance of sources on migration in the immediate post-war period and, more specifically, on the Ukrainian Displaced Persons collections in the British Library´s holdings. It furthermore provides insights into the specifics of archival work about preserving migration histories.

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