PORTLAND

Hanna spent the past weekend at a conference in Portland, Oregon. The trip could not have been any better. First of all, it was in Portland, a beautiful, diverse, interesting city with lots of stuff to do and things to see.

View from the airplane on Mt Saint Helens, a volcano that erupted in the 1980s.

Right outside the conference hotel in downtown Portland. Hello, spring!

The conference was great. Fantastic plenaries, critical thinkers - 

inspiring scholars and scholarship all around.

Hanna's presentation went really well too. 

And it was great to catch up with some old friends/new scholars.

Work hard, then play hard: The giant group of (former) SLC people. Our program was extremely well represented. Go SLC!

Old and new friends at the post-dinner-party party.

 More play time: Hike through the beautiful Forest Park. It's a rainforest right in the city.

Thank you friends, thank you Portland!