Gilberto Fernandes

I was invited to do a virtual presentation about the PCHP at the “Preserving Portuguese Immigrant History: A Symposium on Community Archiving,” hosted by the Saab Center for Portuguese Studies and the University of Massachuetts — Lowell Library. The program also included presentations by Nicole Catarino about UML’s Portuguese American Digital Archive, Chelsea Fernandes about UMass Dartmouth’s Ferreira-Mendes’ Portuguese-American Archives, Veronica Denison about Rhode Island College’s Rhode Island Portuguese American Archives, and Phitsamay Uy about UML’s Southeast Asian Digital Archive,

I am grateful to the organizers, Nicole Catarino and Nikki Tatum, for the opportunity to talk about the PCHP’s collections and public history work to our colleagues in the U.S. This was the first such gathering of Portuguese community archives in North America. Congratulations to the organizers for this important initiative, which I hope leads to establishing partnerships and an active digital network of Portuguese community archives in Canada and the U.S.

Exciting possibilities ahead.