2026 Latino/a/x Issues Conference Schedule
March 18, 2026
Bowen-Thompson Student Union
Bowling Green State University
Schedule of Events:
All events in BGSU's Bowen-Thompson Student Union
9:00 AM
Outside of 202A Bowen-Thompson Student Union (BTSU)
Check-in for registered guests will remain open until 1:30 p.m.
CONTINENTAL BREAKFAST
Lounge outside 206 BTSU Theater
9:30 AM - 10:20 AM
206 BTSU Theater
Emcee
- Dr. Luis Moreno
Land Acknowledgement
Daphne Bonilla
LIC Organizing Units
- Department of Ethnic Studies, School of Cultural and Critical Studies
- Dr. Luis Moreno
- Latino Student Union
- Jacqueline Ponce
- Latin American and Latino/a/x Studies Cluster
- Dr. Susana Peña
Acknowledgements
- Rene O. Ayala
Award Presentations
- Sarah Day, Lucia Virginia Myers & Jacqueline Ponce
10:30 AM - 11:20 AM
201 BTSU Sky Bank Room
Moderator: Ava Rybka, BGSU Undergraduate Student and Guatemala Solidarity Project Intern
Translators: Prof. Amílcar Challú & Prof. Valeria Grinberg Pla
Guatemala Solidarity Project Collaborators
207 BTSU Mylander Room
Moderator: Prof. Amy Robinson, BGSU Faculty
From Farmlands to Foreign Lands: A Family History of Military Service
Roberto Rios, BGSU Graduate Student
Maize and Human: The Growth of a Relationship
Anthony Hernandez, BGSU Undergraduate Student
The Mexican Outlaw in the Age of the Chicanos: The Brown Berets and the Rhetoric of the Texas Rangers
Megan Miner, Ph.D. Candidate, Texas Tech University and BGSU Alumni
206 BTSU Theater
Moderator: Jacqueline Ponce, President, Latino Student Union (LSU), BGSU
Rodolfo Velasquez, President, Global Latinx Student Union (GLSU), University of Toledo
Josie Kuth, Vice President, GLSU, University of Toledo
Savona Olvera, Vice President, LSU, BGSU
Daphne Bonilla, Public Relations Chair, LSU, BGSU
Mayra Arroyo, Historian, LSU, BGSU
Jaime Figueroa, Treasurer, LSU, BGSU
11:20 AM - 1:30 PM
202 BTSU Lenhart Grand Ballroom, Please enter through 202A
11:20 am – Doors Open
Noon – Program begins
Emcees
Rene O. Ayala and Prof. Susana Peña
Introduction of Keynote Speaker
Ava Rybka
Keynote Address
Saul Flores
1:40 PM - 2:20 PM
207 BTSU Mylander Room
Latino/a/x Popular Culture in Print: A Hands-On Exploration
Sasha Kim, BGSU Faculty
Staff, BGSU's Browne Popular Culture Library
201 BTSU Sky Bank Room
Moderator: Prof. Carles Ferrando Valero, BGSU Faculty
Más allá del "Bloque Azul". El Desplazamiento Conservador del Voto Latino y la Redefinición de la Geopolítica Electoral de EE. UU. en 2024
Ela Margarita Molina Sevilla, Academic, National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM)
2:30 PM - 3:20 PM
315 BTSU
Moderator: Audrey Mae Lefeld, BGSU Undergraduate Student
Dr. Pedro Porbén, BGSU Faculty
Dr. Olga Sanz Casasnovas, BGSU Faculty
Students enrolled in SPAN 3830: Hispanic Literature and Film
201 BTSU Sky Bank Room
Moderators: Prof. Valeria Grinberg Pla, BGSU Faculty
An Investigation into Femicide and Gender-Based Violence in Puerto Rico and the United States
Natalie Altayeb, Albion College Undergraduate Student
Magic in the Borderlands: an analysis of creative resillience in Yuyi Morales' Dreamers
Jas Colorado, Graduate Student, University of New Mexico
3:30-4:20 PM
201 BTSU Sky Bank Room
Moderator: Rene O. Ayala, BGSU Graduate Student
Im/migration to Mexico: Identifying Compositional Shifts within Mexico and at the Southern Border
Grecia Garcia Castellon, BGSU Graduate Student
El sueño americano es lograble? Las experiencias y sentimientos de los in/migrantes después de llegar a EE.UU.
Sarah Day, BGSU Graduate Student
How Immigration Affects the U.S.
Cámeron Barceló Santana, BG High School/BGSU Undergraduate Student
315 BTSU
Moderators: Prof. Pedro Porbén, BGSU Faculty
An Analysis of "Fantasma": A Queer Perspective on Complusory Heterosexuality
Caylee Farley, BGSU Undergraduate Student
Sumisión holográfica: Tecnologia y control patriarcal en "Irisol"/ Holographic Submission: Technology and Patriarchal Control in "Irisol"
Natalie Moncaleano, BGSU Undergraduate Student
The Algorithm of Flesh: Biopolitics and Technological Optimization in "Ciber-proletaria"
Lucas Ray, BGSU Undergraduate Student
Vidas desechables: La falacia de la responsabilidad individual en "Nada que declarar"
Romy Nazario, BG High School/ BGSU Undergraduate Student
4:30 PM - 6:00 PM
207 BTSU Mylander Room
Hosted by: Latino Student Union
Updated: 03/13/2026 08:21AM