On June 4 (6:30 pm), the Working Group on Modern History and Historical Migration Studies warmly invites you to a public evening lecture at 15/130. Samantha Knapton from the University of Nottingham will deliver a lecture in English titled “Twice Displaced: Queer Experiences of Displacement in Post-war Europe.”

Samantha Knapton (University of Nottingham) is an Assistant Professor in History specializing in central and east-central Europe, displacement, and humanitarianism. She earned her PhD from Newcastle University (2019) and worked at the University of East Anglia. Her research includes a 2023 monograph on Polish displaced persons in post-war Germany and co-editing a volume on the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (UNRRA). She has held a fellowship in Warsaw and published widely on displacement, repatriation, and Anglo-Polish-German relations.
Abstract
The Second World War affected queer people in unique ways: from the destruction of social structures to a change in culture resulting in a new wave of discrimination, to criminalisation and persecution. These factors, compounded by the challenges of war, produced decades of queer displacement as planners sought to ‘recivilize’ in the wake of war. For those who were both queer and displaced the end of the war did not end their displacement but rather reinforced their exclusion from the great postwar reconstruction efforts. This paper will contextualise the place of those who were doubly marginalized in allied occupied Europe, and further explore how we can recover histories of those ‘twice displaced’ – from their homes and their lives – through extant sources.
The lecture is open to the public.
OpenEdition schlägt Ihnen vor, diesen Beitrag wie folgt zu zitieren:
eusov, Jessica Wehner, TEAM NGHM (2. Juni 2026). Invitation: Lecture by Dr Samantha Knapton on Queer Experiences of Displacement, 4 June. NGHM@UOS. Abgerufen am 18. Juni 2026 von https://doi.org/10.58079/16bmp

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