Vancouver

If the annual Congress of the Canadian Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences (a massive umbrella conference consisting of lots of conferences of Canadian academic organizations) is indeed like summer camp but for academics, as I once heard it described, then the Congress at UBC this week was at the most beautiful campsite ever.

This is the library:


And the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre, across the quad:


A rose garden (with mountains in the background):

And pretty flowers:


Oh, yeah, and I presented a paper at the ACCUTE conference. It was fine. Vancouver was awesome.