{"pk":45277,"title":"Introduction: Traveling Forms (Global German Studies)","subtitle":null,"abstract":"The present Covid-19 pandemic has brought the contradictions of our global existence into sharp relief. While the spread of the virus across national and continental borders has raised the awareness of global entanglements, the resultant closure of national borders even within the European Schengen Area locked people down in place and brought transnational movement to a halt. With most academic conversations having moved online, the 29th Annual Berkeley Interdisciplinary German Studies Conference, held February 19-20, 2021, gathered a group of scholars from across the globe to address the state of our discipline in times of uncertainty and transformation. The breadth of approaches contained under the disciplinary heading “German Studies/Germanistik'' can be at times dizzying, but we believe this ultimately to be a strength of what we call German Studies. Ours, perhaps more than many others, has been a discipline seeking to redefine itself by deconstructing its originary conception – in the sense both of its initially nationalistic orientation as well as its theoretical foundations and antecedents.","language":"en","license":{"name":"Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives  4.0","short_name":"CC BY-NC-ND 4.0","text":"Attribution — You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.\n\nNonCommercial — You may not use the material for commercial purposes.\n\nNoDerivatives — If you remix, transform, or build upon the material, you may not distribute the modified material.\n\nNo additional restrictions — You may not apply legal terms or technological measures that legally restrict others from doing anything the license permits.","url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0"},"keywords":[{"word":"Conference"},{"word":"migration"},{"word":"traveling forms"},{"word":"literary theory"}],"section":"Conference","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/9940d362","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Andrew","middle_name":"","last_name":"Blough","name_suffix":"","institution":"","department":"None"},{"first_name":"Jonas","middle_name":"","last_name":"Teupert","name_suffix":"","institution":"","department":"None"}],"date_submitted":"2021-05-29T19:30:08Z","date_accepted":"2021-05-29T19:30:08Z","date_published":"2021-05-30T07:00:00Z","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/transit/article/45277/galley/34068/download/"}]}