Here are a few updates on this year's conference. We are looking forward to this year's conference, entitled "Schwalbenflug: Migration and Movement in Languages, Arts, and Sciences," which will take place on February 20th and 21st. Our keynote speaker will be Monika Shafi from the University of Delaware, who will give a talk entitled “A Living. Who does where what in order to survive: Work and Travel in Contemporary German Prose.”