just delighted to be back in albuquerque after a few years away for this year's grateful dead scholars' caucus at SWPACA, but already missing the hotel blue & its weird but undeniably cozy heat-optional electric fireplaces.

you can peep the whole conference program here, text search for "grateful dead" to check out this year's caucus presentations/papers/roundtables. https://swpaca.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/Final-2026-SWPACA-Program.pdf