Recent Features
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Between Mirador and Washington: Carl Sartorius and His Collaboration with the Smithsonian Institution
Explores the life and scientific work of Carl Sartorius (1796–1872), a German émigré who transformed his Veracruz plantation, Hacienda Mirador, into a center of nineteenth-century transatlantic scientific exchange.
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Displaced Knowledge: Migration, Memory, and Transformation: An Interview by Nikolaus Hagen with Philipp Strobl about His New Book
Philipp Strobl discusses his new book on displaced knowledge of Austrian refugees in Australia.
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Shoes and Guns from Batawa: Refugees from Czechoslovakia, Knowledge Transfers, and Canadian Immigration from the late 1930s to the 1940s
Using the example of a group of refugees from Czechoslovakia in Canada during World War II, the author analyzes knowledge transfers through migration and their limitations in changing political and economic environments.
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Refugees’ Counter-Knowledge: Resisting Stereotypes, Becoming Political
Based on fieldwork for her recent book, Harbisch highlights refugees’ strategies for changing the way receiving societies view them by asserting their own perspectives.
