Gilberto Fernandes

Gilberto Fernandes

  • “Summer of ’77”: thank you note.

    Thank you to everyone who came to our “Summer of ’77” Community Conversation at the Gallery of the Portuguese Pioneers last night. We had wonderful presentations that were both enlightening and moving.  The discussion afterwards was stimulating, engaging, and generated a lot of positive energy, which will propel us forward, towards other events addressing important…

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  • Launch of Constança Saraiva’s book “A Little Country Across the Country”

    Constança Saraiva’s book “A Little Country Across the Ocean,” for which I have contributed a brief introduction about the history of Portuguese-Americans, is being launched on June 4th in New York and June 5th in Lisbon. See link below for more. http://www.constancasaraiva.com/A-Little-Country-Across-the-Ocean

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  • Community Conversation: The Summer of ’77: How Emanuel Jaques’ Murder Changed Toronto

    I have organized a York University Community Conversation on the murder of Emanuel Jaques in the summer of 1977, and the major impact it had in Toronto, particularly with Portuguese, LGBTQ, and sex worker communities. I will be one of the presenters in this public panel, alongside historians Daniel Ross and Tom Hooper, and sex…

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  • Digital map of Portuguese communities in Canada

    For the 64th anniversary of the arrival of the first group of Portuguese “bulk order” migrant workers on Pier 21, in Halifax, I have created a digital map with the current location of and statistics about the largest Portuguese immigrant, ethnic, and speaking communities in Canada. You can find it here.

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  • Developing Free Youth Summer Program at York University, July 2017

    Together with my York University colleagues Maria João Dodman and Inês Cardoso of the Portuguese and Luso-Brazilian Studies program, and Abubacar Fofana León of the Centre for Research on Latin American and the Caribbean, I have been organizing the upcoming Youth Summer Program, in July 10-14, 2017, with the support of LA&PS’ Global and Community Engagement…

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  • My presentation at the Toronto Workers History Project on Vimeo

    On November 14, 2016, I gave a presentation at the Toronto Workers History Project’s general meeting where I introduced the audience to the PCHP’s mission and activities. That presentation was recorded and can be seen on Vimeo here.

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  • RTPi’s “Hora dos Portugueses” to continue for a third season

    The daily show “Hora dos Portugueses” on Portugal’s international TV and radio broadcaster RTPi/ RTP1/ RDP, will continue for a third season, from January to December 2017. Together with Pedro Rodrigues, Luis Moreira, Daniela Costa (Toronto), and Marta Raposo (Montreal), I will continue my work as a co-producer, content editor, researcher, and reporter dedicated to showcasing Portuguese immigrants…

  • “Oh Famous Race!” New article in The Public Historian

    My latest article came out in the University of California Press’ and National Council on Public History’s journal The Public Historian, 18: 1 (February 2016): 18-47. It examines the transnational and international politics and motivations behind the Eurocentric campaigns of Portuguese American heritage advocates to memorialize the sixteenth-century navigators Miguel Corte-Real and Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo…

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