I just located the photos from the trip to my second professional conference, which was the Society of Dixneuviémistes, in Glasgow, April 2015. I took some notes, though not nearly as extensive as I did for more recent trips, but I do remember running into several old colleagues and seeing several wonderful presentations. I gave a paper on the knife that features as both domestic object and murder weapon in Zola’s La Bête humaine, considering it as a symbol of feminine rather than masculine power.Glasgow is incredibly photogenic.