{"id":11143,"date":"2025-04-02T15:04:46","date_gmt":"2025-04-02T15:04:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/laprensanewspaper.com\/?p=11143"},"modified":"2025-04-02T15:04:57","modified_gmt":"2025-04-02T15:04:57","slug":"bowling-green-state-university-latino-a-x-issues-conference-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/laprensanewspaper.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/02\/bowling-green-state-university-latino-a-x-issues-conference-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Bowling Green State University Latino\/a\/x Issues Conference 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Gloria Enriquez Pizana, Ram\u00f3n Perez, BGSU President Rodney K. Rogers, Linda Alvarado-Arce, and Dr. Frederick Luis Aldama, AKA Professor Latinx.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The Bowling Green State University\u2019s (BGSU) Latino\/a\/x Issues Conference<\/em> for 2025 was held on March 26 from 8:30 a.m. to 6 p.m. in the Bowen-Thompson Student Union. This year\u2019s event had roughly 300 people in attendance. The goal of this \u201cmultilingual conference is to support student research; to increase the visibility of Latino\/a\/x cultures, politics, and interventions in BGSU and our region; and to provide a venue for the recognition of the accomplishments of our Latino\/a\/x communities.\u201d<\/p>\n

The BGSU Latino\/a\/x Issues Conference was organized by the School of Cultural and Critical Studies, students, faculty, and staff from the Latin American and Latino\/a\/x Studies Cluster, the Department of Ethnic Studies, La Uni\u00f3n de Estudiantes Latinos (Latino Student Union), the Division of Inclusion and Belonging, and other members of the Latino\/a\/x Issues Conference (LIC) Organizing Committee.<\/p>\n

This year\u2019s keynote speaker was Dr. Frederick Luis Aldama, AKA Professor Latinx. Professor Latinx was born in Mexico and grew up in north-central California. He has a BA from the University of California- Berkeley and his Ph.D. from Stanford University. He founded and directs the Latinx Pop Lab and the annual BIPOC PoP Comics, Gaming, Animation & Multimedia Arts Symposium at the University of Texas (UT) in Austin. He is also an award-winning author and editor who has published over 50 books, i.e., Latinx Superheroes in Mainstream Comics, The Adventures of Chupacabra Charlie, <\/em>Con Pap\u00e1\/With <\/em>Pap\u00e1, Pyroclast, <\/em>and a Young Adult (YA) graphic fiction book, Through Fences and Labyrinths Borne <\/em>and The Absolutely (Almost) True Adventures of Max Rodriguez.\u00a0 <\/em><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>This conference had panel discussions and roundtable sessions such as \u201cOur Worlds in Our Words- Latinidad and the Arts,\u201d which was moderated by Prof. Valeria Grinberg Pla, and had a graduate student from BGSU, Amanda Anastasia Paniagua speaking on Entr\u00e9 a Nuestro Mundo: Pl\u00e1ticas con Frida Kahlo y Selena Quintanilla\/Enter Our World: Talks with Frida Kahlo and Selena Quintanilla. <\/em>A panel on \u201cColonialism and its Legacies in Latin America,\u201d moderated by Prof. Am\u00edlcar Chall\u00fa, and another panel on \u201cStructural Barriers for U.S. Latino\/a\/x and Spanish-speaking Communities,\u201d moderated by Prof. Carmen Alvarez. It had a roundtable discussion on \u201cExpression of Latino\/a\/x Culture, moderated by Daphne Bonilla, who is a BGSU undergraduate student, and a roundtable on \u201cLatino\/a\/x Cultural Influence and Activism,\u201d which was moderated by Amanda Anastasia Paniague and Prof. Luis Moreno that included Gloria Enriquez Pizana, Ram\u00f3n Perez, and Felix Lerma.<\/p>\n

In the photo are: Gloria Enriquez Pizana, Ram\u00f3n Perez, BGSU President Rodney K. Rogers, Linda Alvarado-Arce, and Dr. Frederick Luis Aldama, AKA Professor Latinx.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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