Hirschfeld's encounters with Islam and Muslims in Indonesia, India, and the Near East "taught him how closely connected the issues of sexual and cultural diversity were." Knowledge in Transit: Global Encounters and Transformation in Magnus Hirschfeld’s Travelogue Nov 6, 2019 Razak Khan
Andrea Wiegeshoff explorers the interactions of different ways of knowing at the moment of immigration using the 1914 example of Wong Kum Wo in Honolulu. Clashing Ways of Knowing at the Moment of Immigration Dec 16, 2019 Andrea Wiegeshoff
Visual and auditory metaphors shape the historiography of encounter, including research on translators in nineteenth-century Alaska. Metaphors and the Historiography of Encounter Nov 19, 2021 Luise Fast
Annette Lützel explains the FRG's very different responses to the large numbers of refugees who came in the early 1990s and in 2015. Citing recent employment and job-training numbers, she sees an ongoing positive trend. From Hoyerswerda to Welcome Culture: Asylum and Integration Policy in the Federal Republic of Germany Nov 5, 2020 Annette Lützel