Gilberto Fernandes

  • Interview with comedian Mike Rita

    Yesterday I spent the last evening of my 35th with the hilarious Mike Rita, one of the top new stand up comedians in Toronto. I got to hang out with Rita and record our conversation while driving between shows – in the style of Jerry Seinfeld’s Comedians in Cars Drinking Coffee – and later interview…

  • Interview with punk rocker Sandy Miranda of ‘Fucked Up’

    Our filming for RTPi’s “A Hora dos Portugueses” continues. Last week we interviewed Sandy Miranda, the bass player for Fucked Up, one of the most prolific and international punk/hardcore bands from Toronto, winner of the Polaris Prize in 2009 (nominated again in 2012). We sat down with Sandy on the stage of the legendary Horseshoe…

  • PCHP & RoughCut collaboration w/ RTPi

    (Texto em português segue-se ao inglês) Earlier this month I started a new project with Pedro Rodrigues of RoughCut Audiovisual (and Luis Moreira) producing content for Portugal’s international public broadcaster RTPi’s new daily TV show “A Hora dos Portugueses.” We are now interviewing various individuals at the heart and on the fringes of Canada’s Portuguese…

  • New office: Room 728, Kaneff Tower, Keele Campus

    I now have an office at the Robarts Centre for Canadian Studies, Room 728, Kaneff Tower, York University (Keele Campus). You can reach me at gilberto@yorku.ca Come visit.

  • Joining Robarts Centre for Canadian Studies, York University

    Starting on November 1st, 2015, I will be a postdoctoral visitor with the Robarts Centre for Canadian Studies at York University, working in close relationship with the Clara Thomas Archives and Special Collections, the Department of History, and the Portuguese faculty at the Department of Languages, Literature, and Linguistics. My responsibilities will include directing the…

  • Interview for OMNI TV’s “Nós Portugueses”

    Yesterday I gave an interview for the OMNI TV show “Nós Portugueses,” hosted by Bill Moniz. Our conversation focused on diaspora, multiculturalism, and the political life of Portuguese Canadians. The show should air on November 22. Ontem dei uma entrevista para o programa “Nós Portugueses” da OMNI TV, entrevistado pelo apresentador Bill Moniz. A nossa…

  • On Guard for Canadian Parochialism: three-part series for ActiveHistory.ca

    Since coming into power in 2006, Prime Minister Stephen Harper has taken various steps to redefine Canadian citizenship and reassert its value under a territorial, militaristic, loyalist, conformist and Anglocentric interpretation. As numerous commentators have noted, these reforms have unfolded within Harper’s broader campaign to (re)define the meaning of being Canadian along conservative ideals and…

  • New article on Portuguese mass migration in The Canadian Historical Review

    My article “Moving the ‘Less Desirable’: Portuguese Mass Migration to Canada, 1953-74” is now available online on The Canadian Historical Review website. Abstract: The sovereignty of migration policy-makers is never absolute. This has been true for both receiving and sending states. One important check on the receiving nation’s immigration policy implementation was the sending nation’s…