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Laura Stempel Mumford <[log in to unmask]>
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Film and TV Studies Discussion List <[log in to unmask]>
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Thu, 24 Apr 1997 12:58:03 -0500
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> REGISTER NOW FOR THE STYLE CONFERENCE!!!!!
>
> July 25-28, 1997 at Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green Ohio
>
> **KEYNOTE SPEAKER VALERIE STEELE,** author of FASHION AND EROTICISM and
> <i>FETISH, and editor of the new journal FASHION THEORY
>
> **PERFORMANCE ARTIST Nick Cave**
>
> **FEATURED SPEAKERS:** MEAGHAN MORRIS on "Style and Cynthia Rothrock (`You
> can
> take the girl out of Scranton...'): Emulation and Identity in Martial Arts
> Movies"
> NOLIWE M. ROOKS on "Hair Dramas: Bodies, Style and African
> American Identity"
> ROBYN WIEGMAN on "Miss America Hair"
>
> **ALSO APPEARING:** Joanna Frueh, "Dressing Aphrodite," Corey Creekmur,
> "Boots,
> Buckskin, Buttons, and Bows: Cowboy Drag in American Popular Culture,"
Emily
> Jenkins, "Body
> Conscious: Experiments and Interrogations," the "ADIOS, BARBIE"/HUES
Fashion
> Show, a
> performance/critique from the third wave feminist magazine's multiethnic
> editorial collective.
> **PLUS:** Cynthia Fuchs, "`I wasn't born with enough middle fingers!'
> Extreme Style, Rage, and
> Politics in Popular Music," Melissa Jane Hardie, "Camp Quality: Dolly
> Parton's Country Style,"
> Chantal Nadeau, "Venus Is Back and BB Is Out: The Next Fur Generation in
> Canada."
> **AND MORE:** "Brazil as Style," Embracing Your Inner Girl," The Politics
of
> Virtual Style,"
> `Rock Style' and the Older Woman," "Barbie as Extra-Terrestrial,"
> "Patriarchy, Postmodernism
> and the Feminist Dress Sense," "When Bad Girls Do High Theory"
>
> NOT TO MENTION music, art, shoes, videos, lingerie, and food!!!
>
> The tentative schedule is now online:
> http://www.bgsu.edu/departments/wmst/style/
> For more information: Laura Stempel Mumford <Lsmumford
> @aol.com> (608) 238-3612 or Mary
> Thompson <[log in to unmask]> (419) 353-9308.
>
> REGISTRATION INFORMATION:
>
> Registration fees:
> $75 Regular participants;
> $40 Non-BGSU Students/Underemployed/Unemployed;
> $30 BGSU Students/One-day registrants
>
> Meals:*
> $14 Conference Dinner Friday Night/Valerie Steele Keynote (vegetarian
option
> available)
> $8 Monday Brunch/Meaghan Morris talk
> *Both talks are open to all conference registrants; you need not attend the
> meals to hear the
> speakers.
> Send payment to: THE STYLE CONFERENCE, 40 College Park, Bowling Green State
> University, Bowling Green, Ohio 43403 or call (419) 372-8181; fax (419)
> 372-8667. Make checks
> payable to BGSU Style Conference; or use VISA, Mastercard, or Discover.
> (Refund policy: Before July 18, 1997: full refund; after July 18, 1997: 50%
> of registration fee.)
>
> Accomodations:
> Best Western, 1450 E. Wooster St., Bowling Green 43402; (419) 352-4671;
Fri,
> Sat $81.95, Sun
> $61.95 + tax
> Buckeye Budget, 1740 E. Wooster St., Bowling Green 43402; (419) 352-1520;
> $43.95 + tax
> Days Inn, 1550 E. Wooster St., Bowling Green 43402; (800) 325-2525; $48 +
tax
> Quality Inn and Suites, 1630 E. Wooster St., Bowling Green 43402; (419)
> 352-2521; $55 + tax
> Bowling Green State University Union Hotel, BGSU Campus; (419) 372-2741
> Holiday Inn, Perrysburg, Ohio; (419) 874-3111; $79 + tax
>
> Travel:
> Car: North/South via I-75; East/West via I-80-90
> Air: Toledo Airport is the closest to Bowling Green. Indicate on
registration
> whether you will need
> ground transportation to campus;cost is $40 round trip.<br>Travelers flying
> into the Detroit Metro
> Airport: you will need to take the shuttle bus to Toledo Airport and
arrange
> ground
> transportation.
 
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