Conversations about communities around the world shaped by mobilities from Portugal, to Portugal, beyond Portugal, and back again. In this weekly English language podcast, Miguel and Gil host fun and entertaining but critically insightful conversations with news making guests in the arts, culture, literature, academia, history, sports, politics, business, journalism, and other fields. Each episode highlights different themes and current events related to Portugal, its emigrant/immigrant communities, and the global impact of its many diasporas.
Anthropologist Miguel Moniz (ICS, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal) and historian Gilberto Fernandes (York University, Toronto, Canada) are two public facing scholars with common interests in the contemporary issues and history of Portugal and Portuguese immigration in North America. Living in Portugal since the mid 1990s, Moniz was born and raised in an Azorean and Cape Verdean enclave on Cape Cod, Massachusetts and has a PhD from Brown University. Fernandes grew up in the greater Lisbon area and has lived in Canada for over 20 years, where he obtained his PhD from York University. Their combined expertise in the past and present of the Portuguese diaspora and its many social, cultural, economic, and political dimensions and their contexts is vast, as reflected in the several publications, exhibitions, documentaries, community archives, websites, tours, public lectures, theatrical plays and other initiatives they have developed over the years.
For more on Miguel and Gilberto's work see their personal websites: miguelmoniz.com | gilbertofernandes.ca
Instagram: @miguelmonizlisboa | @rapaz.gil
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For inquiries, email us at homeisthejourney@gmail.com
Opening and closing themes and incidental music are by Farra Fanfarra, appearing courtesy of the Farra Fanfarra Cultural Association. Look for these songs and more music from Portugal's favorite brass band at farrafanfarra.bandcamp.com and wherever you stream and purchase music.
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