2025 Conference Schedule

42nd Annual California Missions and Presidios Conference
Presented by California Missions Foundation
"Juan Bautista de Anza and the Colonization in the San Francisco Bay Region
Mission San José


Friday, February 14, 2025
(PARISH HALL)

2 p.m.              CMF Docent Meeting
4 p.m.              Mission Tour – Andrew Galvan
5 p.m.              Networking, Social and Registration

(MISSION CHURCH)
6:15 p.m.         Welcome and Opening Prayer – Fr. Anthony Huong Le, Mission San José Pastor and CMF Chairman Michael H. Imwalle
6:20 p.m.         CMF Annual Membership Meeting
6:30 p.m.         Evening Keynote Address – Dr. Lee Panich, Santa Clara University - Native Californians at Mission San José: New Archaeological and Archival Evidence
7:15 p.m.         Mission San José Orchestra playing the sounds of Fr. Narciso Durán

8:00 p.m.         Conclusion

 

Saturday, February 15, 2025
PARISH HALL

8:00 a.m.         Registration, Network and Coffee/Tea/Muffins

SESSION I:      Moderator – Damian Bacich
9:00 a.m.         Ruben Mendoza

Brother Sun, Sister Moon: The Role of the Lunisolar Calendar in the Solar and Sacred Geometry of the California and Southwest Missions

9:25 a.m.         Linda Hylkema
Fishing and Shellfish Exploitation during the Spanish Colonial Era in the San Francisco Bay Area

 9:40 a.m.         April Farnham
More Than a Soldier's Wife: Indigenous/Californiana Women and Social Agency in Alta California (1773-1840)

10:05 a.m.       Paulo Afonso
Eleven major new historical findings about Cabrilho and other Portuguese and Genoese sailors in California’s maritime discovery, 1542 1543

 

SESSION II:     Moderator – Andrew Galvan
10:30 a.m.       Robert Jackson

Reconstructing the Vital Rates of the Neophyte Population of San Jose Mission

10:55 a.m.       John Johnson
Mapping Chumash Communities: From Early Contacts through the Mission Period

11:15 a.m.       Damian Bacich
The Struggles of the Last Bay Area Franciscan During U.S. Occupation

11:40 p.m.       Vincent Medina
Triumph, Permanence and Continuity: Ohlones and Mission San Jose  

12:05 p.m.       LUNCH and Renovated Mission Museum Tour

 

 PANEL SESSION
1:30 p.m.         SBMAL Panel with Fr. Jack Clark Robinson and Staff

 CMF SPECIAL PRESENTATION
2:00 p.m.         Jesse Gutierrez and William Paul

3-D Imaging of Mission Soledad: A Student, His School Project and His Father

 

SESSION III:   Moderator – Robert Jackson
2:15 p.m.         Video Presentation

The Franciscans in the Americas

2:30 p.m.         Russell Skowronek
A Full Accounting, Insights from the Mission Santa Clara de Asís Ledger Book

 2:55 p.m.         Marie Duggan
The Anzas as Silver Prospectors Searching for Maritime Supply: 1736-1762

 3:20 p.m.         Lloyd Wagstaff
The Spanish State and the Discovery of San Francisco Bay: 1769-1776

3:45 p.m.         David Rickman
Uniformly Different: Some Surprising Facts About Military Dress in Alta California

 4:10 p.m.         Conclusion

 

CMF ANNUAL AWARDS BANQUET – Spin-A-Yarn Steak House
5:45 p.m.         Happy Hour Social - no host

6:30 p.m.         Annual Awards Dinner

8:30 p.m.         Conclusion