2024 Latino/a/x Issues Conference Schedule

206 BTSU Theater

Land Acknowledgement

• Davis Ritenour, LIC Organizing Committee

Welcome / Bienvenida

• Dr. Katie Stygles, Chief Inclusion Officer, Division of Inclusion and Belonging

Introduction and Acknowledgements

• Prof. Luis Moreno, LIC Organizing Committee Co-Chair

• Lucia Myers, LIC Organizing Committee

Poetry Reading 

• Prof. Francisco Cabanillas, World Languages and Cultures

• Imani Price-Rodriguez, LIC Organizing Committee

THEMATIC SESSION: Discovering and Dissecting Latinx Identity

206 BTSU Theater

Moderator: Daphne Bonilla, BGSU Undergraduate Student

• Alina Edmunds, BGSU Undergraduate Student
• Imani Price-Rodriguez, BGSU Undergraduate Student
• Joseph De La Torre, BGSU Undergraduate Student

PANEL: Activism, Performance, and Protest

207 BTSU Mylander Room

Moderator: Prof. Amy-Rose Forbes-Erickson

• The Missing 43: A Fiber Arts Project
•     Lily Fritsch, BGSU Undergraduate Student

• From Vendida to Licensiada: An Investigation of the Anti-Feminist tropes in Early Chicano Theatre
  
•     Haley Anissa Alvarez, BGSU Graduate Student

• We Were Here: Student of Color Activism at BGSU
•     Amanda Anastasia Paniagua, BGSU Graduate Student

PANEL: Memory, Performance, Resistance

206 BTSU Theater

Moderator: Prof. Amy Robinson

• The Dehumanization of Hispanic Immigrants and Immigration Reforms
•     Imani Price-Rodriguez, BGSU Undergraduate Student

• From Stereotype to Stewardship: How the Enneagram Encourages Authentic Representation of Latinx Stories on the PWI’s Stage
  
•     Sarah Hopson, BGSU Graduate Student

• Las representaciones de Malintzin del siglo XX al siglo XXI y su impacto en la historia y cultura
•     Dylana Harris, BGSU Graduate Student

11:30am – 1:20pm

202 BTSU Lenhart Grand Ballroom 

Please enter through 202A

11:30 am – Doors open

Noon – Program begins 

MC

• Prof. Susana Peña

University Welcome

• President Rodney Rogers 

Latino/a/x Issues Conference Organizing Units

• Prof. Luis Moreno, Department of Ethnic Studies in School of Cultural and Critical Studies

• Daphne Bonilla, Latino Student Union

• Amanda Anastasia Paniagua, Office of Multicultural Affairs 

• Prof. Valeria Grinberg Pla, Latin American and Latino/a Studies Cluster

Acknowledgements

•  Prof. Michael Cangemi

Presentation of Latino/a/x Issues Conference Awards

• Lucia Myers and Grace Katherine Ranft-Garcia 

Introduction of Keynote Speaker

• Amanda Anastasia Paniagua

Keynote Address:

• Carlos Andrés Gómez 

PANEL: Finding Latinx Identity in Urban Spaces

201 BTSU Sky Bank Room

Moderator: Prof. Amílcar Challú

• Mexicantown, Riverside, Ambassador Bridge & More of Detroit
•     Mollie Boyd, BGSU Undergraduate Student

• "Hasta la Victoria:" The Campbell's Soup Boycott Reconsidered, 1979-86
•     Chase W. Fleece, BGSU Graduate Student

• Latinidad in the Nation’s Capital: Situating a Study of Afro-Peruvians in the Washington D.C. Area
•     Rene Ayala, BGSU Graduate Student

THEMATIC SESSION: Latinx Get Out the Vote Strategies and Election Outcomes

201 BTSU Sky Bank Room

Moderator: Prof. Susana Peña

• Ursula Barrera Richards, Chair of the Lucas County Democratic Central Committee, Co-Founder of the Lucas County Latina Democratic Club
• Kandann Coleman, Senior Manager, Government Relations, Office of the Executive for the Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute (CHCI)
• Prof. Nicole Kalaf-Hughes, Associate Professor, Department of Political Science

THEMATIC ROUNDTABLE: Translation at BGSU: Student Translation, Translation Games, and Gamifying Linguistics

201 BTSU Sky Bank Room

Moderators: Prof. Remy Attig and Prof. Pedro Porben

• Kailyn Eden, BGSU Undergraduate Student
• Aby Rodriguez, BGSU Undergraduate Student
• Caitlyn Bockbrader, BGSU Undergraduate Student
• Julian Verdugo, BGSU Undergraduate Student

207 BTSU Mylander Room

Hosted by Latino Student Union