Please forward this to any other lists or interested friends & colleagues. > THERE'S STILL PLENTY OF TIME TO REGISTER 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 Hour, 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:** 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. ---- Screen-L is sponsored by the Telecommunication & Film Dept., the University of Alabama.