Professor Lüsebrink (SPP project ‘Encyclopaedism’) gives a paper on “Inventing South-American Encyclopedism: Cultural transfers and transatlantic counter discourses in Antonio de Alcedo's Diccionario geográfico-historico de las Indias Occidentales o América (1786-88) and its English Translation (1812)” at the international conference “Intercultural Transfers” at Leipzig University which takes place within the Collabrative Research Group SFB 1199 directed by Matthias Middell and Michel Espagne.