2019 Latino/a/x Issues Conference Schedule

CHECK IN FOR REGISTERED GUESTS
Outside of 202A Bowen-Thompson Student Union
Check-in for registered guests will remain open until 2:30 p.m.

Continental Breakfast
Lounge outside Theater, 206 Bowen-Thompson Student Union

OPENING SESSION
Theater, 206 Bowen-Thompson Student Union

Bienvenida/Bem-vinda
     Marcia Salazar Valentine, Executive Director, BGSU’s International Programs & Partnerships
Presentation of Manny Vadillo Scholarship
     Ana Brown, Office of Multicultural Affairs
Acknowledgements
     McKenna Freeman and Prof. Susana Peña

Concurrent Sessions

PANEL:  Subaltern Voices and Latinx Resistance
Sky Bank Room, 201 Bowen-Thompson Student Union
Moderator: Prof. Luis Moreno

• “Viva La Union: A Historical Analysis of Bowling Green State University’s Latino Student Union 1980 Protest” Heather Bloom (BGSU graduate student)
• “No, My Culture is NOT Your Costume!: Halloween Does Not Have to be Racist”  Megan Miner (BGSU undergraduate student)

PANEL: Creative voices/ voces creativas
207 Bowen-Thompson Student Union
Moderator:  Prof. Frank Otero Luque

• “The Dude Who Almost Killed James Bond: A Short Story” Elena M. Aponte (BGSU alumna)
• “Dos balazos como ojos”  Ivan Gusev Johnson (BGSU graduate student)
• Inmortal (short film) Anna Remijia Dominguez (BGSU undergraduate student)

PANEL: Language, Empowerment and Education
315 Bowen-Thompson Student Union
Moderator:  Prof. Cynthia Ducar

• “Humanizing Anthropos, Resisting Humanitas: Conceptualizing the Academic Labor of Latinx Faculty in Theological Education”  Benjamin D Espinoza (Michigan State University doctoral candidate)
• “Closing the Gap: Experimenting with Manipulatives to Improve Mathematics Achievement of Spanish Speaking Students” Melody Freeland (BGSU undergraduate student)
•  “Phonotactic switching in English” Emily Ryan (BGSU undergraduate student)

Concurrent Sessions

THEMATIC SESSION: Our Story, Then and Now
308 Bowen-Thompson Student Union
Moderator: Alexis Ray – Secretary, Latino Student Union

• Sadi Troche – President, Latino Student Union
• Xavi Boes – Treasurer, Latino Student Union
• Alana Maldonado – Historian, Latino Student Union
• Dania Alvarado - Public Relations, Latino Student Union

PERFORMANCE: Spanish in Ohio: Reflections on loss, gain, acceptance and belonging
206 Bowen-Thompson Student Union
Moderator: Prof. Emily Aguilar

• Elena Foulis (Ohio State University faculty)
• Camila (Maria) Fredericks, (Ohio State University undergraduate student)
• Stacey Alex (Ohio State University graduate student)
• Carlos Martinez (Ohio State University graduate student)
• Adriana Ponce de Leon (Ohio State University undergraduate student)
• Alexis Foulis (High school student)
  

PANEL: Confrontando la hegemonía, reimaginando fronteras
316 Bowen-Thompson Student Union
Moderator: Prof. Pedro Porbén

•  “Subversión: las fronteras en la película Coco”  Sarah Seal, (BGSU graduate student)
•  “Dando voz a identidades relegadas al pasado: un análisis de Como agua para chocolate y Mi negro pasado de Laura Esquivel” Tyler Anthony (BGSU graduate student)
•  “Canibalizando al caníbal para afianzar la hegemonía”  Shaydon Ramey (BGSU graduate student)

PANEL BILINGÜE: Salsa, Sexuality and Song
201 Bowen-Thompson Student Union
Moderator: Prof. Francisco Cabanillas

•  “Reprogramming the Next Generation: The Power of the Salvadoran and Afro-Latinx Lullaby” Alexandra Anaya Green, (Adjunct Professor of Music at Prairie State College, Chicago Heights, IL)
• “El surgimiento de la salsa en Nueva York” Lindsay Boelken (BGSU undergraduate student)

KEYNOTE LUNCHEON FEATURING PRESENTATION BY ARIANA BROWN
Grand Ballroom, 202 Bowen-Thompson Student Union
Please enter through 202A

11:30 a.m. Doors open, lunch available for registered guests

12:00 noon Program begins

University Welcome
     BGSU President Rodney Rogers

Latino/a/x Issues Conference Committee
     Prof. Susana Peña, Taylor Lyndsey Abair, Prof. Michaela Walsh, Sadi Troche, Prof. Luis Moreno,
     Ana Brown, and McKenna Freeman

Presentation of Latino/a/x Issues Conference Awards
     Prof. Niki Kalaf-Hughes and Trinidad Linares

Introduction of Keynote Speaker
     Megan Miner

Keynote Address
     Ariana Brown

Concurrent Sessions

THEMATIC SESSION: LatinX: Interrogating the X
207 Bowen-Thompson Student Union
Moderator: Prof. Michael Django Walsh

• Adam Garcia (BGSU undergraduate student)
• Olive Bartholomew (BGSU undergraduate student)
• Veralucia Mendoza (Community Organizer)

PANEL BILINGÜE:  Subjetividad narrativa: Presenting the Subjunctive Mood as Structure Output
315 Bowen-Thompson Student Union
Moderator: Prof. Carmen Alvarez

• Dallas Black (Bowling Green High School teacher)
• Griffin Black (Bowling Green High School student)
• Nathan Horn (Bowling Green High School student)
• Faith Zhang (Bowling Green High School student)

Concurrent Sessions

PANEL: Latinx Cultural Identity and Belonging
315 Bowen-Thompson Student Union
Moderator: Prof. Khani Begum

•  “The Impact of The Virgin of Guadalupe in the United States Today”  Mary Wires (BGSU undergraduate student)
•  “Who is a Black Latinx?: Contesting Afro-Latinidad”  Rene Ayala (Grinnell College Undergraduate student)
• “Discrimination in Modern Bilingual Special Education”  Erika Lindsay (BGSU undergraduate student)

PANEL BILINGÜE: Critical and Creative Perspectives on Resistance in the Americas
314 Bowen-Thompson Student Union
Moderator: Prof. Amy Robinson

• “The 1954 Coup from Three Perspectives”  Jake Hall (BGSU undergraduate student)
•  “Contested Memory: Post-Conflict Responses in Guatemala” Robert Barnes (BGSU alum/Virginia Tech University graduate student)
•  “La cultura chicha: resistencia y rebeldía del subalterno peruano” Prof. Frank Otero Luque (BGSU faculty)

THEMATIC PANEL:  El Centro: Proposed New Center of Latin American, Caribbean, and Latinx Studies at BGSU
308 Bowen-Thompson Student Union
Moderator: Prof. Susana Peña, Director, School of Cultural & Critical Studies

• Dean Raymond Craig, College of Arts & Sciences
• Prof. Amílcar Challú, Chair, Department of History
• Prof. Amy Robinson, Associate Professor, Spanish in World Languages and Cultures
• Ana Brown, Interim Director, Office of Multicultural Affairs
• Dania Alvarado, Undergraduate Student, Latino Student Union Member
• Taylor Balderas-Burciaga, Executive Director, Sofia Quintero Art and Cultural Center
• Gabe Lomeli, Assistant Director of Diversity, Office of Admissions

LATINO/A/X MIXER
207 Bowen-Thompson Student Union
Organized and sponsored by La Union de Estudiantes Latinos (Latino Student Union)