Department of Popular Culture

The Heavy Metal and Popular Culture Conference

April 4-7, 2013
Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, Ohio, USA

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

Laina Dawes, author of What Are You Doing Here?: A Black Woman's Life and Liberation in Heavy Metal (Bazillion Points, 2013)

Keith Kahn-Harris, author of Extreme Metal: Music and Culture on the Edge (Berg, 2007)

Keynote Address: "The Blackening of the Green," Niall W. R. Scott (University of Central Lancashire, UK)

Also featured at the conference will be a screening of the film Motörhead Matters, three roundtable discussions with Niall W. R. Scott, Steve Waksman, Deena Weinstein, and other international metal scholars to be announced, and a special exhibit, "Beyond the Black: Masks and Facepaint through Genres, History & Cultures."

AGENDA

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REGISTRATION

The conference is free, but registration is highly recommended. Please contact Jeremy Wallach at jeremyw@bgsu.edu.

SPONSORS

Stoddard-O’Neill Popular Culture Endowment, Department of Popular Culture, Institute for the Study of Culture and Society, School for Cultural and Critical Studies, Faculty Research Council, Office of Research and Economic Development, and Popular Culture Scholars Association.

ACCOMMODATIONS

Rooms are reserved in a block under "Metal Music Conference" for both hotels.

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Bowling Green Chamber of Commerce

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Drawing by Michael Weigman. Buzz Bloodshot created by Esther Clinton and Jeremy Wallach.

Michael Weigman is an artist currently living in De Kalb, Illinois. He was born in Toledo, Ohio and attended Bowling Green State University, where he received his Bachelors of Fine Arts in 2009. He is in his last semester of his graduate program at Northern Illinois University and will be receiving his Masters of Fine Arts in printmaking in May 2013. His artwork focuses on Metal Culture and its relevance to his upbringing in the suburban Midwest. He has shown his work both nationally and internationally, and is in the process of completing works for a solo show titled "Midwest Moon Fog." You can check out his work at www.michaelweigman.com.