Workshop on Luso-Canadians and their descendants in Canada and in Portugal Posted by João on 11:48 pm

On the afternoon of Monday, the 27th of June, from 14:30 to 18:30 at the new TagusPark campus of Universidade Aberta (Edifício Inovação I - 2nd floor, room polivalente), myself, João Sardinha, am coordinating the Canadian Studies International Research Linkages Project Workshop: Luso-Canadians and their Descendants in Canada and in Portugal: Questions of Civic Participation and Diversity Management.

The workshop includes the presentation of seven papers, bringing together researchers from Portugal and Canada. These include:

"Multiculturalism and the politics of belonging among Portuguese-Canadians - Shifting contexts and meanings" - Ana Paula Beja Horta (CEMRI-Universidade Aberta, Lisbon);

"Evaluating Multiculturalism: Portuguese-Canadian descendants within the Canadian mosaic" - Fernando Nunes (Mount St. Vincent University, Halifax);

"A past for the future: Archiving the Portuguese-Canadian experience - the Portuguese-Canadian History Project" - Gilberto Fernandes &Raphael Costa (York University, Toronto);

"Portuguese media production in Canada: Some preliminary ethnographic notes" - Sónia Ferreira, Marta Rosales & Filomena Silvano (CRIA-FCSH, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Lisbon);

"Understanding Portuguese-Canadian civic identity in a cosmopolitan context" - Robert Kenedy (York University, Toronto);

"Transnational practices and intergenerational transmittance among Azorean descendants in Quebec" - Ana Gherghel (Universidade dos Açores, Azores) & Josiane le Gall (Université du Québec a Montréal, Montreal);

"When the idyllic becomes a myth: Portuguese-Canadian descendants narrate pre- and post-return to Portugal" - João Sardinha (CEMRI-Universidade Aberta, Lisbon).

The event will also host the Canadian ambassador in Portugal, the Honourable Anne-Marie Bourcier who will provide the opening address.

Entrance is FREE. Please come join us if these issues are of interest to you.

Workshop: Luso-Descendants and Transnational Living / Luso-Descendentes e Vivências Transnacionais Posted by João on 7:28 pm

On Tuesday, the 14th of Junho, at the University of Lisbon's Faculdade de Letras (Faculty of Letters), Instituto de Geografia e Planeamento do Território - IGOT in conjunction with the Centro de Estudos das Migrações e das Relações Interculturais - CEMRI, will be hosting the Workshop: Luso-Descendentes e Vivências Transnacionais: Algumas Linhas de Investigação (Luso-Descendants and Transnational Living: Some Lines of Research). This workshop under the coordination of João Sardinha (that would be me from CEMRI) and Sandra Silva (from IGOT), will, for the first time, bring together a number of Portuguese academic researchers who are carrying out research on descendants of Portuguese emigrants in the diaspora and also in the return setting, right here in Portugal. Issues up for debate tie together Luso-descendants and integration, identity, religion, media, football (soccer), and sense of belonging and conceptions of home.

At this workshop, I will also be premiering the short film: Narrativas de Regresso - Marta Raposo (Narratives of Return - Marta Raposo). Based on spoken accounts provided by the Luso-Canadian Fadista (or Fado singer if you will) Marta Raposo concerning her 'return' to Portugal in 2005 and her decision to go back to Canada in 2010 after 5 years of singing Fado in Portugal, this 15 minute film is the short version of the documentary made by your truely and António João Saraiva that will be launched in the Fall of this year, and will have as its title: Regressa Urgente (Urgent Return). More on that in the months to come.

Canada at the Fête de la Francophonie / Francophone Festival Posted by João on 6:45 pm

Taking place next week, from the 14th-20th, various cities through out Portugal will be host to Fête de la Francophonie (aka Francophone Festival). See the program here: http://www.fetedelafrancophonie.com/.

Canada's contribution to the event comes in two forms:

1. Showing of the film De Pêre en Flic by Quebecois director Émile Gaudreault in two cities:

Caldas da Rainha - Tuesday, the 15th @ 10:30 and again at 21:00 at the Centro Cultural e de Congressos - admission: 2.50 euros;

Lisbon - Thursday, the 17th @ 19:00 at the Institut Français du Portugal - admission: free.

2. Conference with Haitian born, Quebec resident poet/novelist/storyteller Marie-Célie Agnant. Organised by the Canadian Embassy in Lisbon, in collaboration with the Centro de Estudos das Migrações e Relações Interculturais (CEMRI) http://www.univ-ab.pt/cemri/, Agnant will be giving a talk entitled: Immigration, integration et condition féminine: perspectives canado-haitiennes on Friday the 18th @ 17:00. Admission is free.

We urge all to come out and support Canadian culture in Portugal.

Conference Sons/Daughters of Portuguese Emigration/Immigration Posted by João on 6:24 pm

This Thursday, the 24th of February of 2011, the Conference Sons/Daughters of Portuguese Emigration/Immigration co-coordinated by yours truly (João Sardinha) will take place at the French Institute of Portugal (former Instituto Franco-Português) from 14:30 till 19:00. If these issues are of interest to you, entrance is free of charge.

Besides my co-coordinating duties, I will also present the paper: 'In this Country, being Portuguese is also being Canadian': the Identity Negotiations of Luso-Canadians in Multicultural Canada'.

For more information on this event you can look here:

www.univ-ab.pt/cemri/detailnew.php?new=30