THE STYLE CONFERENCE JULY 25-28, 1997 BOWLING GREEN, OHIO Where does style come from? How and why does style change? How is style performed? Embodied? Subverted? Sold? Appropriated? Commodified? We invite a variety of material, cultural, and discursive experiences including academic and non-academic approaches. Proposals are welcomed in any format: individual papers, preconstituted sessions, workshops, roundtables, film and video, performance, multimedia presentations, personal accounts. SUGGESTED TOPIC AREAS: Theorizing style: pleasures and dangers, age and generation, styling desire, performing style, body modification, fashion/fun/guilt, queer looks, cash flows, street style, designs for living, extreme fashion, academic style, virtual style. DEADLINE FOR 250 WORD PROPOSALS: December 1, 1996. The Style Conference Women.s Studies Program 246 Shatzel Hall Bowling Green University Bowling Green, Ohio 43403 FOR MORE INFO: Laura Stempel Mumford e-mail: [log in to unmask] (608) 238-3612 Ellen E. Berry e-mail: [log in to unmask] (419) 372-2620 Website: http://www.bgsu.edu/departments/wmst/style/ ******************************* Clint Yoby mailto:[log in to unmask] TCF Dept/University of Alabama "Get on to the bus That's gonna take you back to Beelzebub Get on to the bus That's gonna make you stop going Rub-a-dub." - Soul Coughing ---- To signoff SCREEN-L, e-mail [log in to unmask] and put SIGNOFF SCREEN-L in the message. Problems? Contact [log in to unmask]