Gilberto Fernandes

  • Book launch: This Pilgrim Nation

    I’m launching my book This Pilgrim Nation on Wednesday, January 15, starting at 7am, at the Supermarket Bar on 268 Augusta Avenue, Kensington Market. The event will feature a brief performance by the Portuguese guitar maker and player Nuno Cristo, a conversation between myself and Dr. Susana Miranda, and a reading from the book. Refreshments…

  • Entrevista para OMNI TV’s Focus Portuguese

    Fui entrevistado pelo programa Focus Portuguese da OMNI TV sobre o meu livro This Pilgrim Nation. A entrevista está disponível online: Parte 1: https://www.omnitv.ca/on/en/videos/this-pilgrim-nation-part-1/ Parte 2: https://www.omnitv.ca/on/en/videos/this-pilgrim-nation-part-2/

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  • City Builders documentary episodes 3-4 & new oral history videos now online

    Episode 3, titled “New Heights,” focuses on the introduction of new building techniques and materials (i.e. concrete forming, flying form and drywall) in Toronto in the 1960s and how they disrupted the industry, especially its unions. It examines the controversial organization of concrete forming workers and the intense battles between international and national unions. This…

  • Publishing in Open Access panel

    This Wednesday, October 23rd, 10.30-12.00, I’m participating in a panel for graduate students at York University, Scott Library, about Publishing in Open Access.

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  • This Pilgrim Nation: book pre-order

    My first book This Pilgrim Nation: the Making of the Portuguese Diaspora in Postwar North America is coming out this Winter with the University of Toronto Press. The official publication date is December 9, 2019; just in time for Christmas. But you can pre-order your copy now at a 25% discount on the University of…

  • City Builders nominated 2019 for Heritage Toronto Public History Award

    See the list of nominees here: https://www.heritagetoronto.org/what-we-do/heritage-toronto-awards/2019-public-history/

  • City Builders featured in York University’s Grad Life podcast

    Last month I sat down for a conversation with Will Sloan about my City Builders project, which was featured in the York University’s Faculty of Graduate Studies podcast series Grad Life. You can listen to the podcast below.

  • City Builders & Myseum of Toronto exhibit at the Columbus Centre

    The City Builders’ exhibit at the Columbus Centre, part of this year’s Myseum of Toronto Intersections festival, was launched on March 24 with a reception held in that Italian-Canadian community space. About 50 guests attended the event, which started out with a series of brief speeches from Emanuele Lepri (Villa Charities/ Columbus Centre), Jeremy Diamond…

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