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