Neighbourhoods are increasingly understood, within many branches of scholarship from urban planning to oral histories and archaeology, as places of global encounters. The Global Encounters Fellows cohort in 2024 brings together scholars working on one or more of the following research questions: How are local neighbourhoods global? What guarantees cohesion in neighbourhoods, and how do they deal with conflict and contradiction? What forms of proximity, privacy or distance are needed to make neighbourhoods exist? What conceptual instruments (narrative, political, juridical, governmental, praxeological, religious, etc.) are utilized to make sense of a neighbourhood? What temporal scales are employed to imagine and narrate neighbourhoods, and what spatial models (geographic, architectural, planning-based) serve the work of reflection and articulation? How do forces of globalization, migration and digitalization transform ways of doing and thinking neighbourhood? What notions of homogeneity or heterogeneity underpin ideas of neighbourhood? Are neighbourhoods significantly different from each other whether situated in the North or the South – or within overlapping interzones (e.g. the North in the South)? Are these categories of any utility in conceptualizing the neighbourhood to come? What are the parameters of a neighbourhood-studies that is equipped to deal with the challenges of the mid-21st century?