CORREO
THE ELECTRONIC NEWSLETTER OF THE CALIFORNIA MISSION STUDIES ASSOCIATION
CONTENTS:
UPCOMING CMSA CONFERENCE (FEBRUARY 13-15)
DUES FOR 2004
BIOGRAPHIES OF PROPOSED CMSA BOARD MEMBERS
BICENTENNIAL CELEBRATIONS AT MISSION SANTA INÉS
DIGITAL PROJECTION ON TO THE DOME OF THE BASILICA AT MISSION DOLORES
CONFERENCE AT THE UNIVERSITY OF THE PACIFIC IN STOCKTON (APRIL 23-24)
PRINTED WORKS EXHIBIT AT THE GRADUATE THEOLOGICAL UNION LIBRARY IN
BERKELEY
LECTURE SERIES AT RANCHO LOS CERRITOS HISTORIC SITE
ARCHAEOLOGY FIELD PROGRAM AT EL PRESIDIO DE SAN FRANCISCO
GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS SYMPOSIUM AND WORKSHOP AT UC BERKELEY
RECENT PUBLICATIONS
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UPCOMING CMSA CONFERENCE (FEBRUARY 13-15)
The annual CMSA conference at San Luis Obispo is in a couple of weeks.
The planning group has put together a superb series of presentations
and activities. Those who have not yet registered should do so as soon
as possible. Information is at http://www.ca-missions.org/conf.html
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DUES for 2004
Dues renewal forms were sent out at the end of November. If you have
not renewed, please do so soon. Future issues of the Correo and
the
Boletín will be sent only to to members who have paid their
membership
dues for 2004.
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BIOGRAPHIES OF PROPOSED CMSA BOARD MEMBERS
At this year's Annual CMSA Meeting which will be held at 7:00 PM on
Friday, February 13, 2004 at Mission San Luis Obispo, you will be asked
to re-elect three directors to a second three-year term, and to elect
three new directors for one term. The following three directors have
been nominated for another term:
CARMEN BOONE DE AGUILAR is an independent historian and a resident of
Mexico City. Her areas of interest are Baja and Alta California,
Northwest New Spain, and her native Veracruz. She is a Volunteer member
and Advisor for "Adopte una Obra de Arte - Baja California Sur." Since
2000, she not only has participated in the annual seminars on Jesuit
history at the Colegio de Sinaloa but she has also collaborated on
various projects at the Colegio.
WILLIAM FAIRBANKS is a native Californian. He was born in San Francisco
and raised on a family farm near Santa Rosa. Bill's educational journey
and love affair with teaching began in a one room elementary school and
ended at the University of California, Santa Barbara, where he received
his PhD in Anthropology in 1975. He has been a faculty member in the
Department of Anthropology-Sociology at Cuesta College since 1966.
Bill's passion is teaching and his areas of professional interest
include: California Indians, the contemporary non-western world, and
anthropological theory and its application. Bill is very active in
professional organizations such as the Southwestern Anthropological
Association (Executive Board member and former President), American
Anthropological Association, California Indian Conference (1999 host)
and California Community Anthropology Teacher*s Conference (1997,
2002,2 003 host).
SASHA HONIG has been a member of CMSA since 1987. She was a professor
of California and Mexican history at Bakersfield College before her
retirement in 1998. She has served on CMSA's Board of Directors, was
the Newsletter Editor in the early 1990s, and currently oversees the
content of CMSA's website. She is the author of its Illustrated
Glossary, the annotations for the links, and various other bits and
pieces. She is especially interested in the history of the
southern
San Joaquin Valley and adjoining mountain ranges in the Spanish and
Mexican periods.
The following three members have been nominated for membership on the
board:
DAVID BELARDES is a historian, tribal scholar, advisor, educator,
researcher and lecturer. He is also Chief and Chairman of the
Juaneño
Band of Mission Indians. As President of the Blas Aguilar Museum
Foundation and Co-curator of the Blas Aguilar Museum/Acjachemen
Cultural Center and as a Native American consultant for archaeological
projects, David Belardes has reviewed reports and negotiated with
landowners for repatriation and reburial of Native American ancestors
and their belongings. He has been instrumental in helping to form
policies for cultural and historical organizations. David's lifelong
involvement with American Indian affairs has resulted in his
participation in the monitoring of hundreds of archaeological sites in
Orange County and San Diego County.
JEFFREY BURNS is the Director of the Academy of American Franciscan
History. He was appointed to this position in 2002. Since 1983 he has
been the archivist for the Archdiocese of San Francisco. He is also an
adjunct professor at the Franciscan School of Theology and Cal State
Hayward and USF. Dr. Burns received his PhD in US History in 1982 from
the University of Notre Dame under Dr. Jay P. Dolan. He has published
in local history as well as immigration, ethnic, and religious history.
His publications include The History of the Archdiocese of San
Francisco, A History of the Diocese of Oakland, KEEPING FAITH: European
and Asian Catholic Immigrants: A Documentary History, DISTURBING
THE
PEACE: A history of the Christian Family Movement, and others.
HELEN NELSON was born and raised in Omaha, Nebraska. After graduating
from Creighton University, she moved to California and settled in
Pasadena where she met and married her husband John. They moved to San
Gabriel where they raised a son and two daughters. Before she retired
in 2002, Helen was involved with every aspect of Mission San Gabriel.
She was the cemetery manager, parish office manager, gift shop manager,
administrative assistant, and curator. Helen's role as office manager
changed dramatically after the 1987 Whittier earthquake. Her position
evolved into that of Restoration Director. She spearheaded the capital
campaign, raising over $5.5 million to restore and repair the extensive
damage to the mission. She managed this project until its completion in
1996. Helen chaired the 2002 CMSA conference at Mission San Gabriel and
she is currently on the board of directors of the California Mission
Foundation.
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BICENTENNIAL CELEBRATIONS AT MISSION SANTA INÉS
Mission Santa Inés is celebrating its bicentennial this
year. Some of
the events planned for this year-long commemoration include a lecture
series.
February 22 : "Mission Santa Inés and the Grand Strategy
of the
Spanish Empire." Presentation by Dr. Jack Williams.
March 21: "Early Industrial Revolt at Mission Santa Inés."
Presentation by Dr. Robert Hoover. AND "Chumash Life: A
Personal
Perspective." Presentation by Elise Tripp
April 25: "Two Hundred Years of Life-Giving Water: A History of the
Mission Water Systems." Presentation by Jeremy Hass. AND "Santa
Inés:
An Ongoing Mission." Presentation by Fr. Robert Barbato
Please contact the Mission for more information.
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DIGITAL PROJECTION ON THE DOME OF THE BASILICA AT MISSION DOLORES
Ben Wood will project historic imagery of Mission Dolores onto the
interior dome of the Basilica church. Ben Wood is a British born artist
who creates site specific projects related to recreating historic
images and superimposing video and still images onto architectural
structures. His work celebrates history, layering images of past and
present to create an alternative kind of electronic cinema. This
project will be a one of a kind exhibit, documenting and presenting
historic images that relate to three centuries of life and culture at
Mission Dolores. The projection will also include images of the 1791
Indian wall decoration that has been hidden behind the Great Altar of
Mission Dolores since 1796. These will be the first ever digital color
images to be displayed
to the public. Please join us for this exhibit. It is at Mission
Dolores, 16th & Dolores Streets, San Francisco, California. The
projections may be viewed every day from January 24th through
February
7th, 2004. Monday to Saturday; 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. Sunday; 1:30
p.m. to 4:00 p.m.
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CONFERENCE AT THE UNIVERSITY OF THE PACIFIC IN STOCKTON (APRIL 23-24)
The 55th California History Institute, sponsored by The John Muir
Center for Environmental Studies at the University of the Pacific will
be held on April 23-24. The theme for this year's gathering is "Spanish
and Mexican California: History and Cultural Legacy." Proposals for
presentations are being accepted until February 16. Information about
the event may be found at
http://ets.uop.edu/muir/CallforPapers.htm
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PRINTED WORKS EXHIBIT AT THE GRADUATE THEOLOGICAL UNION LIBRARY
IN BERKELEY
"An Encounter with a New World", an exhibit highlighting rare materials
owned by the Academy of American Franciscan History, will run from now
through February 15th in the Hewlett Library of the Graduate
Theological Union on "Holy Hill", just north of the UC Berkeley campus.
The exhibit will contain European, Mexican, and Peruvian printed works
that contributed to the development of missions and colonial culture in
Latin America. Call (510) 649-2541 for details.
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LECTURE SERIES AT RANCHO LOS CERRITOS HISTORIC SITE
Eliza Boné has sent us word that the spring lecture series at
Rancho
Los Cerritos Historic Site in Long Beach is about to start. The
lectures are:
January 24: "Baja California: Where California
Really Began"
Lecture by Dr. Iris Engstrand
February 21: "Women in Spanish & Mexican
California"
Lecture by Dr. Donna Schuele
March 13: "The Hide and Tallow Trade"
Lecture by Dr. William Barger
April 17: "The History & Heritage of Mexican Los
Angeles:
Ranchos to Barrios, 178- Present"Lecture by Antonio
Ríos-Bustamante
May 8: "The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo and the
Californio Ranchos"Lecture by Ricardo Griswold del Castillo
Details can be found at http://www.rancholoscerritos.org or by
calling (562) 570-1755.
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ARCHAEOLOGY FIELD PROGRAM AT EL PRESIDIO DE SAN FRANCISCO
Stanford University is currently accepting applications to its Summer
2004 field program at El Presidio de San Francisco. Students will
participate in field excavation and laboratory work at the site of El
Polin Springs, a Spanish-colonial/Mexican period residential area of
the historic presidio. Project information and applications are
available at www.stanford.edu/group/presidio, or contact Professor
Barbara Voss (bvoss@stanford.edu or at 650-725-6884).
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GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS SYMPOSIUM AND WORKSHOP AT UC BERKELEY
"Devotional Landscapes: Mapping Shrines and Saints of New Spain," a
symposium and workshop on GIS for History will be held at the
University of California, Berkeley on February 27-28.
Religion as a nexus of political, economic, social and cultural life in
the area once known as New Spain (now Mexico and the Hispanic
Southwest) has been the subject of extensive scholarship. The
landscape, already rich with the religious associations of the
indigenous population, became
freshly inscribed in ways ever more complex with the arrival of
Catholicism. The interactions of the sacred and the spatial are being
explored through the computerized mapping of Devotional
Landscapes, a
collaborative project between the Colegio de Mexico and UC Berkeley,
that
seeks to integrate historical geography and religious history in a
region now severed by the US-Mexico border. The "Devotional Landscapes"
symposium brings together scholars from Mexico, the United States, and
Europe for discussion of the uses of digital mapping in colonial
history of the Americas. A workshop February 28 introduces scholars to
the use of geographic information systems in the humanities.
Pre-registration is required and limited; registration fee charged.
Organizers: Dorothy Tanck de Estrada, Colegio de Mexico; Jerry
Craddock, Cibola Project, UC Berkeley; and John Radke, Geographic
Information Science Center, UC Berkeley. For further information and
registration, contact Caverlee Cary, cari@uclink.berkeley.edu
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RECENT PUBLICATIONS
Brian Fagan. Before California: An Archaeologist Looks at Our Earliest
Inhabitants. Lanham and Oxford: Rowman & Littlefield,
2003. xvi +
400 pp. $24.95 (cloth), ISBN 0-7425-2794-8.
A review of this work on H-Cal may be found at
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=23701071465591