Gilberto Fernandes

  • 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

  • Wrote a play! BASTA! NO MORE FEAR!

    I co-wrote a play with my friends and fellow historians, Craig Heron and Franca Iacovetta, about the Hoggs Hollow tragedy of 1960, and the subsequent uprise of Italian construction workers in Toronto. The play, titled “BASTA! NO MORE FEAR!,” directed by Aida Jordão, will be performed by the Toronto Workers’ Theatre Group (part of the…

  • Museum of Toronto’s Black Diasporas’ Community Archiving Panel

    I will be one of the panelists at the Museum of Toronto’s “A Place for Community Archiving Panel,” together with June Chow and Dr. Cheryl Thompson. The event is happening on January 30, starting at 6pm, at 401 Richmond St. West, and is part of the Black Diasporas Tkaronto-Toronto exhibition program. Admission is free. See here for…

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