Conference Presentations
The call for papers was posted on the Fort Ross Bicentennial website in May 2011. Scholars and tradition-bearers were invited to submit abstracts concerning historical, anthropological, or archaeological research on Fort Ross spanning the last 200 years. Presentations were invited on the following topics:
interactions among indigenous peoples and Russians;
Russian and Spanish imperial geopolitics;
impacts on ecosystems;
exploration of Russian California;
ethnobotany;
Russian-Californio relations;
individual managers of Ross;
Russian shipbuilding, Russian farming, sea otter hunting, the Farallones artel;
the Russian withdrawal;
images of Ross Counter;
museum and archive;
ethnographic and colonial costume.
The response has been vigorous: the arrangement of specialty sessions has been adopted in order to accommodate additional presenters.

Program Consultants & Advisers
James R. Gibson, Professor of History, York University, Toronto, Canada, Chief Adviser for the Conference;
Ronelle Alexander, Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures, University of California Berkeley faculty liaison, Society of Living Traditions co-founder;
Timothy Dilliplane, Professor, Massachusetts Maritime University, Adviser, Russian American Company, International Association of Specialists on Russian America co-founder;
Evgeniy Golovko, Institute of Linguistics, Russian Academy of Sciences, Adviser, Indigenous Peoples of the Russian Federation;
Sandra Hollimon, Professor of Archaeology, Santa Rosa Junior College

Conference Director & Coordinator
Marion Macdonald, President, Society of Living Traditions

Organizing Committee
Marion MacDonald, President, Society of Living Traditions, Consultant, Albion Conservation, former board member, Fort Ross Interpretive Association;
David McMahon, State Archaeologist, Alaskan Office of History and Archaeology, Adviser, Russian American Company;
Daniel Murley, Director (ret.) Healdsburg Museum; Ranger (ret.) Fort Ross Park;
Alexander Petrov, Institute of World History, Russian Academy of Sciences

Kashaya Consultant:
Eric Wilder, Kashaya artist;
Otis Parrish, spokesman for the Parrish family;
Emilio Valencia, Tribal Historic Preservation Officer

Historic Ball Consultant
Jolie Anita Velazquez, independent event planner

Consultant for Fort Ross Historic Park
Robin Joy Wellman, California State Parks Interpretive Specialist I, Chair of the Fort Ross 2012 Bicentennial, Chair, Fort Ross Interpretive Association Board.