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Conference spotlights Latino issues BOWLING GREEN,O. -- Bowling Green State University will take "A Latinoscopic Approach" in its Ninth Annual Latino Issues Conference,
to be held Thursday, April 10, in the Lenhart Grand Ballroom of the Bowen-Thompson Student Union.
The daylong conference, from 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m., will feature panel discussions with faculty from Bowling Green, the University
of Toledo, Oberlin College, Ohio University and the University of California at Santa Barbara. Issues will be examined through
the lens of Latino issues and concerns, with the student perspective provided by BGSU undergraduate and graduate students.
Race, ethnicity and gender relations, free trade, war, migration, sexuality and art are some of the topics to be addressed.
The keynote address will be given by Dr. Jeffrey Pilcher, a specialist in Mexican history and an assistant professor of history
at The Citadel (the military college of South Carolina). He will speak on "Food and Mexican Identity."
Pilcher recently was awarded the prestigious Thomas F. McGann Memorial Prize by the Rocky Mountain Council on Latin American
Studies for his book "!Que vivan los tamales! Food and the Making of Mexican Identity," published in 1998 by the University
of New Mexico Press.
He will give his talk during the luncheon, which takes place from 11:45 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. The BGSU Human Relations Commission
will also present the Miguel Ornelas Human Relations Awards during this time, recognizing an individual and a group or organization
on campus whose programs, services or actions have significantly enhanced positive human relations at BGSU.
The cost of the luncheon is $7. All other events are free and open to the public.
Following the conference, on Friday, April 12, there will be entertainment in the Black Swamp Pub in the union from 6-9 p.m.
Poet Victor Hernandez Cruz will read from his work. In the 1970s, Cruz emerged as a distinctive voice in the so-called Nuyorican
school of émigré poets. Much of his work explores the relationship between the English language and his native Spanish. He
is the author of numerous collections of poetry and is a co-founder of both the East Harlem Gut Theatre in New York and the
Before Columbus Foundation. He has taught at the University of California at Berkeley and San Diego, San Francisco State College,
and the University of Michigan. His honors include a Guggenheim award, a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts,
and a New York Poetry Foundation award. Cruz divides his time between Puerto Rico and New York.
The musical group La Revancha will also perform.
For more information or to register for the luncheon, call Manny Vadillo, associate director of the Office of Multicultural
Affairs and Academic Initiatives, at 419-372-2642.
(Posted April 01, 2003 )
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