Gilberto Fernandes

Gilberto Fernandes

  • Book Bash! Open mic book reading.

    International Book Day, BOOK BASH!🎤 Open mic book reading. 📖@ The Supermarket Bar on 268 Augusta Ave.Thursday, April 23, starting at 7pm. Bring a copy of an academic/non-fiction book or edited volume you have published (English, French, Portuguese, or Spanish), step to the mic on stage and get the audience hooked by reading a small passage…

  • Portuguese Diaspora Council annual meeting

    On December 17-18, 2025, I had the pleasure of participating in my first Portuguese Diaspora Council annual meeting and being officially welcomed into it since becoming of one over 350 nominated members (18 in Canada) in October. Founded in 2021, with the High Patronage of the President of the Portuguese Republic and the Ministries of…

  • New article “Gendering ‘Intelligent’ Machines” in Technology and Culture

    My fourth and final article to come out of my research project Laborem Ex Machina: A History of Construction Machinery and Operating Engineers in Canada was published in the October issue of Technology and Culture. Find it here: “Gendering ‘Intelligent’ Machines:How Operating Engineers Constructed their Masculinity,” Technology and Culture 66: 4 (2025): 1111-41 Keywords: Advertising; children and youth; literature; unions; war;…

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  • Home is the Journey: Tales from Portugal’s Diasporas – new podcast series!

    Announcing our new podcast series Home is the Journey: Tales from Portugal’s Diasporas, produced and hosted by me and Miguel Moniz. Home is the Journey is a critical exploration of current issues and longstanding themes influencing and confronting Portuguese immigrant communities around the globe. Miguel and I will host the thinkers, creators, storytellers, and other folks who discern…

  • Diaxporas’ podcast series, coming soon

    The Diaxporas: Migration Memory Research Collective, of which I am a founding member and coordinator, is a group of scholars, public historians, archivists, librarians, and community members with an interest in Canada’s diasporic communities, their histories, memories, and interactions with one another and with the general society. Our aim is to develop collaborative research projects,…

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  • Basta! A Success.

    Photos by William Paul. More photos here. The play “Basta! No More Fear! Remembering the Hoggs Hollow Disaster of 1960,” which I co-wrote with the distinguished labour historians Craig Heron and Franca Iacovetta, directed by Aida Jordao, and performed by the Toronto Workers’ Theatre Group (TWTG) was a great success! Part of this year’s Mayworks…

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  • Opening night for Basta! No More Fear!

    Great opening night for Basta! No More Fear! yesterday. The Toronto Workers’ Theatre Group did a wonderful job bringing to life this tragic story about a largely forgotten milestone episode in our city’s history. All shows are “sold out” – tickets are free – but come anyways if you don’t have a ticket and we…

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  • RTP interview on impact of Trump’s policies on Canadian universities

    I gave an interview to RTP’s correspondent Cândida Pinto on the impact of Donald Trump’s policies on Canadian universities’ student enrollement, faculty hiring, and cross-border research. You can watch it here: https://www.rtp.pt/noticias/mundo/canada-vai-a-votos-num-clima-de-alta-tensao-com-os-eua_v1650741