A CONFERENCE ON URBAN LITERATURE
10 April 2010 ▪ 8:30am-5pm ▪ Pembroke Hall Room 202 ▪172 Meeting St Providence, RI ▪ Wheelchair accessible
Breakfast 8:30-9am
Keynote address 9-10am
▪ Michael D. Rubenstein: “Infrastructuralism”
Urban Infrastructure and Fiction 10-12pm
▪ M. J. Andersen “All Fall Down: Infrastructure and Civic Culture in Rhode Island”
▪ David L. Pike “Darkness Visible: Representations of Subterranean Infrastructure”
Lunch 12-1pm
Cityscapes in Fiction Roundtable 1-3pm
▪ Chinnie Ding, Allison Fong, Ghenwa Hayek, John Mulligan, Sara Pfaff, and Katerina Seligmann
Global Cityscapes and Literature 3-5pm
▪ Nelson H. Vieira “Urban Space/Mental Space: The ‘True Blood’ of Dalton Trevisan’s Urban Vampires in the
Cityscape of Modern Brazil’s Curitiba”
▪ Bruce Robbins “That Giant Sucking Sound: Plumbing and Global Injustice"
▪ Edward J. Ahearn “‘Waiting in the world city, for things to make some sense’: Cosmopolis and Global Cyber-
Cities Theorizing”
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Sponsored by Brown University’s Office of International Affairs, Cogut Center for the Humanities, Graduate Student Council, and Departments of English (Zucker Family Fund), of Comparative Literature, and of Portuguese and Brazilian Studies
