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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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PCHP & CTASC: 15th anniversary reception at Scott Library
Yesterday evening, I had the honour of hosting the Secretary of State for Portuguese Communities, José Cesário, the Ambassador of Portugal to Canada, António Leão Rocha, and the Consul-General of Portugal in Toronto, Ana Luísa Riquito, along with about forty other friends and partners at a reception held at Scott Library on York University’s Keele…
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Lusophone Studies Association visit to PCHP archives
On June 30, during the Lusophone Studies Association’s international conference held at York University, a group of attendees visited the Clara Thomas Archives and Special Collections at Scott Library, where they learned about the Portuguese Canadian History Project and looked at a sample of its collections.
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My new research/ public history project: City Builders: An Oral History of Immigrant Construction Workers in Postwar Toronto
Last September, I started a new research and public history project called City Builders: An Oral History of Immigrant Construction Workers in Postwar Toronto, associated with York University’s Robarts Centre for Canadian Studies and the Laborers International Union of North America Local 183. This project will record, examine, and divulge the history of Toronto’s immigrant construction workers…
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PCHP featured in York U promo video
Follow this link to watch a York University (Clara Thomas Archives & Special Collections) promotional video that I have contributed to.
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Chapter in edited volume “Identity Palimpsests” out this month
The book Identity Palimpsests: Archiving Ethnicity in the U.S. and Canada, edited by Dominique Daniel and Amalia Levi, was published this month by Litwin Press. This edited volume contains a chapter written by myself and the rest of the PCHP team (Raphael Costa, Emanuel da Silva, Susana Miranda, Anna St. Onge), titled “Archiving ‘From Below’:…
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