Franciscan Conference Program Schedule

Thursday, March 24

Registration (Ponce Hall Rotunda): 8:00 am-9:00 am

Opening Remarks (Flagler Room): 9:00 am-9:30 am

Keynote I (Flagler Room): 9:30 am-10:30 am
From Conversion of the Heart to Conversion of Souls: The Development of Early Franciscan Missiology; Michael Cusato (St. Bonaventure University)

Coffee Break (W. Venido): 10:30 am-11:00 am

Session I Old World Background (Flagler Room): 11:00 am-12:00 pm
Presider: John Young (Flagler College)
That They May Love the Faith: Roger Bacon on Culture, Language and Religion; Timothy J. Johnson (Flagler College)
Turning to the East: Medieval Franciscan Missions to Asia; Anne Müller (University of Dresden)

Lunch (Open): 12:00 noon-1:30 pm

Keynote II (Flagler Room): 1:30 pm-2:30 pm
Medieval Understandings of Paganism and Foreign Cultures as Conditions for the Early Modern Missionary Efforts in America; Gert Melville (University of Dresden)

Coffee Break (W. Venido): 2:30 pm-3:00 pm

Session II New World Overview (Flagler Room): 3:00 pm-4:30 pm
Presider: Dominic Monti (Saint Bonaventure University)
Anti-apocalyptic Thought in Medieval and Early Modern Mendicant Evangelism and Eschatology; Catherine Scine (Flagler College)
Friars in the New World: The Franciscan Politics of Evangelization in North, Central, and South America; Johannes Meier (University of Mainz)
Companions and Guides: Patrons and Saints of the Franciscans in North America; Helmut Flachenecker (University of Würzburg)

Reception (Markland House): 5:30 pm-7:00 pm

Friday, March 25

Keynote III (Flagler Room): 9:00 am-10:00 am
Popular Imagery and Reactions to Missionization from San Agustín to San Francisco; David Hurst Thomas (American Museum of Natural History)

Coffee Break (W. Venido): 10:00 am-10:30 am

Session III Florida I (Flagler Room) 10:30 am-12:00 pm
Presider: Kathleen Deagan (University of Florida)
Catalysts of Assimilation: The Role of Franciscan Missionaries in the Colonial System of Spanish Florida; John E. Worth (University of West Florida)
Among the Mocama: Franciscan Missions in Northeastern Florida and Southeastern Georgia; Keith Ashley (University of North Florida)
The Last Mission: The Aggregation and Demise of the Mocama Missions; Rebecca D. Gorman (University of Florida)

Lunch (Open): 12:00 noon-1:30 pm

Session IV Florida II (Flagler Room): 1:30 pm-3:00 pm
Presider: Michael Gannon (University of Florida)
Indigenous Peoples and Franciscan Sources: Gender and Ancestor Veneration among the Timucua of Spanish Florida; Tamara Spike (North Georgia College and State University)
Friar Francisco Pareja: Missionary and Linguist in Spanish Colonial Florida; Lisa Noetzel (College of Coastal Georgia)
The Third Order of St. Francis and Other Confraternal Organizations in Spanish Florida; Susan Parker (St. Augustine Historical Society)

Coffee Break (W. Venido): 3:00 pm-3:30 pm

Session V New Spain I (Flagler Room): 3:30 pm-5:00 pm
Presider: John Diviney (Flagler College)
Eschatological and Biblical Inspiration in the Franciscan Architecture of New Spain; Jaime Lara (University of Notre Dame)
The Franciscan Conferencias on Theology and Languages and the Conversion of New Spain; David Rex Galindo (Southern Methodist University)
Cycles of Celebration: High Holy Days in the Franciscan Missions of Northern New Spain; Kristin Dutcher Mann (University of Arkansas-Little Rock)

Reception (St. Augustine Historical Society/Tour of Franciscan Convent): 5:30pm-7:00pm

Saturday, March 26

Session VI New Spain II (Flagler Room): 9:00 am-10:30 am
Presider: Jack Clark Robinson (Academy of American Franciscan History)
The Missionary Predicament: Conversion Practices in Texas, New Mexico and the Californias; Mariah F. Wade (University of Texas)
Talking to the Desert: Franciscan Explorations and Narratives of 18th-century Arizona; José Refugio de la Torre Curiel (Universidad de Guadalajara)
Missions Administration in Eighteenth-Century Texas: Concepts and Practice; Jay Harrison (Catholic University of America)

Coffee Break (W. Venido): 10:30 am-11:00 am

Session VII California (Flagler Room): 11:00 am-12:30 pm
Presider: Jeffrey Burns (Academy of American Franciscan History)
Junípero Serra: from Spanish Academic to New World Missionary; Rose Marie Beebe / Robert Senkewicz (Santa Clara University)
Shades of Sister Death: A New Look at Indian Mortality in the California Missions; Steven Hackel (University of California-Riverside)
Evangelization and Art: The Role of Imagery in the Upper California Missions; Pamela Huckins (Institute of Fine Arts, New York University)

Conclusion (Flagler Room): 12:30 pm-1:00 pm

Optional Reception and Tour

3:00 pm Reception at Mission Nombre de Dios Museum

4:00 pm Tour of St. Augsutine with Carl Halbirt, City Archeologist

For further information, contact:
Dr. Timothy J. Johnson
Flagler College
Email: johnsont@flagler.edu