Details / Détails

Lieux / Location

Brown University, Providence, RI, United States

Conference location:

Cogut Institute for the Humanities

Andrews House, 13 Brown St, Providence, RI 02912

*Location of panels and keynote address

Stephen Robert '62 Campus Center - Kasper Multipurpose Room

75 Waterman St, Providence, RI 02912

*Location of exposition

https://www.brown.edu/about/visit

Getting to Providence

By Plane

Option 1 - Fly into T.F. Green International Airport (PVD), located in Warwick, RI, about 10 miles south of downtown Providence.
- The airport serves major airlines including Delta, United, American, JetBlue, and Southwest.
- From the airport:
  - - - By train: The MBTA Commuter Rail runs directly from T.F. Green Station to Providence Station (about 15 minutes).
      - By car/taxi: Take I-95 North to Providence (about 15 minutes).
      - By bus: RIPTA routes also connect the airport to downtown.
      - By hotel shuttle: contact out local hotel sponsor Homewood Suites by Hilton Providence Downtown to schedule a shuttle from PVD airport to the hotel (cost is $20)
Option 2- Fly into Boston Logan International Airport (BOS)
- Take the train, bus, or car from Boston to Providence (see by train section for more details)
- Uber/Lyft are available to go from Boston to Providence (the cost for this is usually around $100-$115 )

By Train

How to get from the Boston Airport to Providence

From Boston Logan International Airport (BOS) to South Station:
- Take the Silver Line SL1 (free from the airport) from your terminal to South Station in downtown Boston.
- Travel time: about 20–25 minutes.
From South Station to Providence:
- At South Station, board either:
  - The MBTA Commuter Rail (Providence/Stoughton Line), or
  - An Amtrak Northeast Regional or Acela Express train.
  - Travel time: 1–1.5 hours, depending on the train.

You’ll arrive at Providence Station (100 Gaspee Street), near downtown and the State House.

Other train routes to get to Providence

From Boston:
- Take an Amtrak Northeast Regional or MBTA Commuter Rail (Providence/Stoughton Line) from Boston’s South Station to Providence Station.
- Travel time: about 1 hour.
- Providence Station is located downtown at 100 Gaspee Street, near the Rhode Island State House.
From New York City:
- Take the Amtrak Northeast Regional or Acela Express from Penn Station directly to Providence Station.
- Travel time: 3-3.5 hours
From Other Cities:
- Amtrak’s Northeast Corridor runs through Providence, so trains from Washington, D.C., Philadelphia, Baltimore, and New Haven all connect directly.

By Car

The main visitor garage is Lot 68 Upper (Power Street Garage), at 111 Power Street (entrance at Power & Thayer).
- Rates:
  - Weekday (Mon–Fri) 8 am–6 pm: $3.00/hour.
  - Weekday full day until 6 pm: $15/day.
  - After 6 pm on weekdays, weekends & holidays: $2/hour.

Our Local Hotel Partner

Homewood Suites by Hilton Providence Downtown

Address: 5 Exchange St, Providence, RI 02903, USA

Special rate: $179 per night.

Blocked room dates: Thursday, February 26, 2026, Friday, February 27, 2026, and Saturday, February 28, 2026. We recommend conference participants plan to arrive Thursday night to be present for the conference, taking place Friday and Saturday, and depart on Sunday morning.

The hotel includes a free hot breakfast and local shuttle service, which will take you from the hotel to the conference location, and back, both Friday and Saturday.

Please use the link here to reserve: https://www.hilton.com/en/attend-my-event/pvdexhw-ooc-a84bb3c9-7e19-42bc-aa8d-f7312b04468c/

****You must reserve before January 27,2026 to secure this discounted room rate!****

Here are further hotel details:

• All rooms are king suites with sleeper sofas.

• Complimentary hot breakfast buffet served from 6:00 am to 10:00 am in the lounge daily.

• Precor 24-hour Fitness Center

• Washer / dryer room on the 7 th floor ($2 per machine)

• 24-hour Suite Shop

• Complimentary Wi-Fi

• Complimentary shuttle within a 1-mile radius

• Airport shuttle to and from PVD $20 per person each way

• Shuttle reservations are required. Shuttle times are 7:30 am to 10:00 pm.

• Valet parking - $38 per night ($42 oversized)

• Walk to Providence Place Mall, Amtrak Station and 30 restaurants

Faites connaissance avec l'équipe / Get to know our team

Chanelle Dupuis (Brown University, USA)

Chanelle Dupuis is a PhD student at Brown University in the French and Francophone Studies department. She holds a Master's degree from Brown University in French and Francophone Studies and a Bachelor of Arts degree in French and Spanish from Florida State University. Her research is focused on sensory studies and, more particularly, smell studies. She works on the representation of odors in 20th- and 21st-century French and Francophone novels. Her current dissertation project analyzes the role of smells in dystopias in relation to environmental change, nonhuman lives, technologies of smell, and descriptions of atmospheres. Her areas of interest include memory studies, the environmental humanities, Québécois literature, perfume culture, anosmia, linguistics, and graphic narrative studies. She recently published an article titled "Smell and Resistance: Writing to Denounce in Charlotte Delbo's Memoir 'Auschwitz and After'" in Volume 1, Issue 1 of the journal 'Alabastron'. An active member of the sensory studies community, she runs a website called Smell Studies (www.smellstudies.com), which hosts a smell studies blog and an international working group composed of young scholars from a variety of disciplines.

Jasmine Laraki (Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium — Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, France)

Jasmine Laraki is a doctoral candidate in Art History at Université Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne, co-supervised in Comparative Literature at Université Libre de Bruxelles. She holds a Master’s degree in Art History from La Sorbonne. Her dissertation explores the interplay between emerging psychophysiological theories of smell and the visual and performative practices of Symbolist artists. Her research lies at the intersection of art history, literature, and the cultural history of scent, with a particular focus on the spiritual and esoteric dimensions of fragrance in Symbolist aesthetics. She is also a member of the Smell Studies Group (SSG).

Clara May (Université de Neuchâtel, Switzerland)

Clara May is a PhD student at the University of Neuchâtel (Switzerland) at the Institute of Art History and Museology. She holds a Master's degree in Art History and a Bachelor of Arts degree in Art History and Modern French Language and Literature from the University of Geneva (Switzerland). Her research focuses on decorative perfume objects produced in France during the 18th century. Centered on the cultural, social and moral issues surrounding the use of perfume during the Age of Enlightenment, her project also seeks to consider the aesthetic potential of smells in the context of this artistic production. Rooted in art history, her research tends towards interdisciplinarity and also focuses on the cultural history of scents and perfume, as well as the history of medicine and chemistry. Currently based in Paris, she is a visiting researcher at the Château de Versailles Research Centre. She is also a member of the Smell Studies Group (SSG).

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