CORREO:THE ELECTRONIC NEWSLETTER OF THE CALIFORNIA MISSION STUDIES ASSOCIATION January 2004 Vol. 2, No. 1 Edited by Robert M. Senkewicz (Please submit any items for inclusion to rsenkewicz@scu.edu |
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 **************************** 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 ***************************** 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. ********************************** 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. ******************************** 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. ******************************* 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. ******************************** 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 ***************************** 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. ***************************** 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. *************************************** 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). ****************************************** 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 **************************************** 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 |