San Diego State University
5500 Campanile Drive
San Diego, CA 92182-6010

University Library, Room 430

Parking Information

Session 1: Opening Remarks

8:30 a.m – 9:30 a.m. 

• Adela de la Torre, San Diego State University, President
• Todd Butler, College of Arts & Letters, Dean
• Filipe Ramalheira, Consul-General of Portugal in San Francisco
• Ricardo Vasconcelos, Department of Spanish and Portuguese Languages and Literatures, Chair

Session 2: Opening Conference

9:30 a.m. – 10:30 a.m.

• The discovery of the Blue Planet. Iberian navigation and diplomacy from 1450 to 1529
  João Paulo Oliveira e Costa, Universidade NOVA de Lisboa
  

Coffee Break

10:30 a.m. – 10:45 a.m.

Session 3

10:45 a.m. –11:15 a.m.

• Cherrypicking, mythmaking, and cultural identity – On the Portuguese presence in North America
  Onésimo Teotónio Almeida, Brown University

11:15 a.m. –11:45 a.m.

• Las Californias y sus protagonistas en la historiografía de Antonio de Herrera
  Mariano Cuesta Domingo, Universidad Complutense de Madrid

Lunch break

12:00 p.m. – 1:30 p.m.

Session 4

1:30 p.m. – 2:15 p.m.

• New historical findings about Cabrilho and other Portuguese and Genoese in the maritime discovery of California, 1542-1543
  Paulo Afonso, American River College
  

2:15 p.m. – 3:00 p.m.

• Lope Martim, the Afro-Portuguese pilot who discovered the return voyage across the Pacific
  Andrés Reséndez, University of California, Davis
  

3:00 p.m. – 3:45 p.m.

• Following the Portuguese wake: navigational influence regarding Francis Drake’s circumnavigation
  Steve Wright, Drake Navigators Guild

Coffee break

3:45 p.m. – 4 p.m. 

Session 5

4:00 p.m. – 4:45 p.m.

• Who tells History matters: Why celebrate Cabrillo?
  Ethan Banegas, San Diego State University

4:45 p.m. – 5:30 p.m.

• The branding of California’s colonial heritage: The costs and benefits
  Michael Connoly Miskwish, San Diego State University

San Diego History Center (SDHC)
(Located in the heart of Balboa Park) 
1649 El Prado, Suite #3
San Diego, CA 92101

Session 6: Welcome to SDHC

9:00 a.m. – 9:10 a.m.

• Bill Lawrence, San Diego History Center, President and CEO

Session 7

9:10 a.m. – 09:50 a.m.

• A Florentine Renaissance cosmographer between America and China- Matteo Neroni's rediscovered maps and globes, their sources and afterlife
  Marco Caboara, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
  

9:50 a.m. – 10:30 a.m.

• Two Portuguese in Thomas Cavendish's transpacific fleet 1587-1588
  Lourdes de Ita, Universidad Michoacana de San Nicolás de Hidalgo
  

10:30 a.m. – 11:10 a.m.

• The problem of citizenship among Portuguese migrants in the Spanish Empire the during the Early Modern Age (16th and 17th centuries) 
  Ignasio Javier Chuecas Saldias, Universidad Finis Terrae
  

Coffee Break

11:10 a.m. – 11:20 a.m.

Session 8

11:20 a.m. — 12:00 p.m.

• Portuguese of Macao and Spain’s China trade route through the Santa Barbara Channel
  Marie Duggan, Keene State College
  

12:00 p.m. – 12:30 p.m.

• Re-creating Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo’sSan Salvador (2007 – 2015)
  Carla Rahn Phillips, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
  

12:30 p.m. – 1:00 p.m.

• Portuguese navigators in the Pacific under the Spanish flag:Isabel Barreto and Pedro Fernandes de Queirós
  Maria da Graça Ventura, University of Lisbon
  

Lunch Break

3:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.

Visit to the galleon San Salvador, Maritime Museum

6:00 p.m. – 9:30 p.m.

Conference dinner at Point Loma Naval Base, hosted by Cabrillo Festival, Inc. 
To purchase dinner tickets, please contact Barbara Hosaka: (619) 957-1866, [email protected].

Cabrillo National Monument
1800 Cabrillo Memorial Dr
San Diego, CA 92106

Session 9: Closing Ceremony

10:00 a.m. – 11:00 a.m. 

• Filipe Ramalheira, Consul-General of Portugal in San Francisco
• Col. Luís Miguel Correia Cardoso, Attaché to the Embassy of Portugal in Washington, D.C. 
• Paulo Afonso, American River College

Tour of Cabrillo National Monument Grounds 

11:00 a.m. – 12:00 a.m.