Home is the Journey: Tales from Portugal's Diasporas

Fieldcast #1 Craft Beer in Portugal w/ Octavio Costa of Artbeerfest and Quimera Brewpub's Adam Heller and Raquel Nicoletti

Our inaugural "HITJ Fieldcast" focusing on cultural, political, and current events related to Portugal. In this episode we explore the craft beer movement. The first interview is with Octávio Costa of OG & Associates, the co-founder of Artbeerfest Caminha, Portugal’s largest, oldest, and premier craft beer festival. Octávio also organizes other Portuguese and international craft beer festivals, and is an influential ambassador of Portugal’s craft beer movement. We spoke about the festival and the growth of the craft beer movement in Portugal as he was making preparations for this year's edition of Artbeerfest in Caminha. HITJ also visited brewers Adam Heller and Raquel Nicoletti at their Quimera brewpub in Alcântara, Lisbon. We spoke about the growth of the craft beer movement in Portugal over the past decade, the start up environment in the country, and the movement's positive impact in building communities and local economies. We spoke about their historic brew and architecturally significant gastropub – located in a 300 year old tunnel to a royal palace – and challenges to craft beer brewing in Portugal. Miguel, Adam, and Raquel also drink a LOT of Quimera's beers throughout this conversation. In their opening segment, Miguel and Gil introduce the concept of HITJ's new Fieldcast episodes and talk about wine and beer production in Portugal and its diaspora. HOME IS THE JOURNEY: TALES FROM PORTUGAL'S DIASPORAS with Gilberto Fernandes and Miguel Moniz Conversations about communities around the world shaped by mobilities from Portugal, to Portugal, and beyond Portugal. Anthropologist Miguel Moniz (ICS, Universidade de Lisboa) and historian Gil Fernandes (York University) are public scholars with expertise in the contemporary issues and history of Portugal and Portuguese immigration in North America. Websites: miguelmoniz.com [https://www.miguelmoniz.com/] | gilbertofernandes.ca [https://gilbertofernandes.ca/] Instagram: @home_is_the_journey | @miguelmonizlisboa | @rapaz.gil For inquiries, email us at: homeisthejourney@gmail.com Music by Farra Fanfarra: farrafanfarra.bandcamp.com All rights reserved © Miguel Moniz & Gilberto Fernandes ---------------------------------------- Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy [https://acast.com/privacy] for more information.

Soccer in Immigrant Communities with Journalist John Gonsalves and Broadcaster Alex Seixeiro

HITJ explores soccer in immigrant communities with journalist and broadcaster John Gonsalves (O Jornal, WJFD) and Alex Seixeiro (the afternoon sports anchor on 680 News Radio, Toronto—Rogers Sports & Media). John and Alex talk about the role of soccer in Portuguese immigrant communities, including their own love of the game, recounting the development of soccer in New England and Canada. The episode looks at the history of the great America's Cup winning immigrant Portuguese teams of the industrial mill period to World War II and the Portuguese immigrant national team players in the US and Canada, including the "Babe Ruth of Soccer" Adelino "Billy" Gonsalves who played in the 1930 and 1934 World Cup and Stephen Eustaquio, Canada's current acting team Captain. Gonsalves delves into the development of the Luso American Soccer League, which he covered since its founding in 1973, and the key role of the league and its players in elevating the quality of the national game. John and Alex discuss the role of radio in instilling enjoyment for the game, and how soccer is a community and family event in Toronto and New England. FIFA's corruption is a topic of conversation, as is the organization's culpability in dampening the spirit of cooperation and international community celebrating the World Cup. In their opening segment Miguel and Gil talk about the newest members of Miguel's family, his three sheep Alice, Gertrude, and Josephine. In their introduction to the interview with John and Alex, they offer insights into the historical, political, and social role of soccer in Portuguese immigrant communities. HOME IS THE JOURNEY: TALES FROM PORTUGAL'S DIASPORAS with Gilberto Fernandes and Miguel Moniz Conversations about communities around the world shaped by mobilities from Portugal, to Portugal, and beyond Portugal. Anthropologist Miguel Moniz (ICS, Universidade de Lisboa) and historian Gil Fernandes (York University) are public scholars with expertise in the contemporary issues and history of Portugal and Portuguese immigration in North America. Websites: miguelmoniz.com [https://www.miguelmoniz.com/] | gilbertofernandes.ca [https://gilbertofernandes.ca/] Instagram: @home_is_the_journey | @miguelmonizlisboa | @rapaz.gil For inquiries, email us at: homeisthejourney@gmail.com Music by Farra Fanfarra: farrafanfarra.bandcamp.com All rights reserved © Miguel Moniz & Gilberto Fernandes ---------------------------------------- Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy [https://acast.com/privacy] for more information.

Authors Katherine Vaz and Pedro Almeida Maia

HITJ's conversation with celebrated authors Katherine Vaz and Pedro Almeida Maia offers insight into the characters, stories, motivations, and narrative themes of these two prize winning writers of diaspora communities. Katherine Vaz has been the preeminent English language novelist about Portuguese and Azorean communities in the US since her first novel Saudade was published in 1994. Her subsequent writing, including the novels Mariana (selected by the Library of Congress as one of the 30 best books of 1998) and Above the Salt (a People Magazine book of the week) and short story collections Fado and other Stories (Drue Heinz Literary prize) and Our Lady of the Artichokes (Prairie Schooner Award) have cemented her place in the pantheon of American novelists exploring the depths of the immigrant communities in the US. Prolific author Pedro Almeida Maia, from São Miguel, Açores, has long has been celebrated as an original and vibrant voice in the islands, however, has recently earned national acclaim as the writer of prize winning works including Escrava Açoreana (2022), Ilha-America (2020), and his recently published Condenação (2025). In the episode, Vaz and Almeida Maia talk about the motivations and desires of their characters, interrogate the meaning of family in their fiction, and discuss the meaning of diasporic writing. They tell some behind the scenes stories about their writing, including the real life figures that serve as inspiration for some of their narratives. In a revelatory segment, Vaz also talks about her children's book writing, something she rarely speaks about. In their opening segment, Gil and Miguel talk about a recent health fad that has made the humble sardine, once a cheap staple of the Portuguese diet, into a global luxury item, thinking about the commoditization of Portuguese culture for touristic consumption has damaged local communities. HOME IS THE JOURNEY: TALES FROM PORTUGAL'S DIASPORAS with Gilberto Fernandes and Miguel Moniz Conversations about communities around the world shaped by mobilities from Portugal, to Portugal, and beyond Portugal. Anthropologist Miguel Moniz (ICS, Universidade de Lisboa) and historian Gil Fernandes (York University) are public scholars with expertise in the contemporary issues and history of Portugal and Portuguese immigration in North America. Websites: miguelmoniz.com [https://www.miguelmoniz.com/] | gilbertofernandes.ca [https://gilbertofernandes.ca/] Instagram: @home_is_the_journey | @miguelmonizlisboa | @rapaz.gil For inquiries, email us at: homeisthejourney@gmail.com Music by Farra Fanfarra: farrafanfarra.bandcamp.com All rights reserved © Miguel Moniz & Gilberto Fernandes ---------------------------------------- Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy [https://acast.com/privacy] for more information.

The Foreign press, censorship, and propaganda in 60s Portugal, with the Associated Press' Dennis Redmont and Dom Quixote Publications co-founder Vasco Abecassis

Dennis Redmont, the head of the Associated Press Lisbon news operation in the 1960s, and Vasco Abecassis, co-founder with his then wife Snu Abecassis of Publicações Dom Quixote, share their stories about the foreign press' coverage of the Colonial Wars / Wars of Independence in Angola, Guinea-Bissau, and Mozambique (including Vasco's stint as Guinea-Bissau Governor General Arnaldo Schulz' foreign press liaison), and the political realities in Portugal (including Dennis' visiting with lawyer Mário Soares the site where Gen. Humberto Delgado was murdered); the Estado Novo's use of New York-based public relations firms to push extensive propaganda in the American press during President John F. Kennedy's administration; how their publications challenged the Salazar regime's domestic and international narrative, reporting repressed information despite the dictatorship's extensive censorship; PIDE's (secret political police) harassment of Dennis (declared persona non grata by the Ministry of Defense) and Snu; lively parties with Amalia Rodrigues and Natália Correia, and the politically eclectic patrons of the Botequim; Vasco's memories and speculations about the tragic death of his ex-wife Snu, her then partner the Portuguese Prime Minister Francisco Sá Carneiro, and the Minister of National Defense Adelino Amaro da Costa on a plane crash in Camarate on December 4, 1980. Dennis and Vasco also reflect critically on the current crisis of legacy media in the age of algorithm-driven social media, "tech bros," and the loss of press freedom. In their opening segment Miguel and Gil talk about Irish bar culture in Portugal, immigrant associations, and the 30th anniversary of the great Lisbon institution O'Gilins Pub in Cais do Sodré. The episode was made with the support of  the “Export Portugal. Cultural Diplomacy and the Rebranding Strategies of the Estado Novo in the United States (1933-1974)” a National Science Foundation of Portugal project (FCT-Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia-2022.08653.PTDC, PI Annarita Gori) HOME IS THE JOURNEY: TALES FROM PORTUGAL'S DIASPORAS with Gilberto Fernandes and Miguel Moniz Conversations about communities around the world shaped by mobilities from Portugal, to Portugal, and beyond Portugal. Anthropologist Miguel Moniz (ICS, Universidade de Lisboa) and historian Gil Fernandes (York University) are public scholars with expertise in the contemporary issues and history of Portugal and Portuguese immigration in North America. Websites: miguelmoniz.com [https://www.miguelmoniz.com/] | gilbertofernandes.ca [https://gilbertofernandes.ca/] Instagram: @home_is_the_journey | @miguelmonizlisboa | @rapaz.gil For inquiries, email us at: homeisthejourney@gmail.com Music by Farra Fanfarra: farrafanfarra.bandcamp.com All rights reserved © Miguel Moniz & Gilberto Fernandes ---------------------------------------- Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy [https://acast.com/privacy] for more information.

The Study in Portugal Network (SiPN) with FLAD Executive Board Member Michael Baum and Education Director Ricardo Pereira

HITJ highlights the extraordinary Portuguese international study program the Study in Portugal Network (SiPN) powered by the Luso-American Foundation (FLAD), with Executive Board Member Michael Baum and Education Director Ricardo Pereira. SiPN's founders talk about the many study opportunities in Portugal through this unparalleled study abroad program, the growth of international studies in Portugal; and FLAD's bi-national, cultural, educational, scientific, and diplomatic mission. In their opening segment, Miguel and Gil talk about the SCU Toreense's recent unprecedented victory in the Taça de Portugal national soccer competition – the first time in the tournament's 100+ year history that a club outside of the First Division won the commpetition. They discuss the financial challenges facing lower division clubs in Portugal, and Gil's "glory days" as a young soccer player with C.F. Santa Iria de Azoia. Recorded at FLAD in Lapa, Lisbon. HOME IS THE JOURNEY: TALES FROM PORTUGAL'S DIASPORAS with Gilberto Fernandes and Miguel Moniz Conversations about communities around the world shaped by mobilities from Portugal, to Portugal, and beyond Portugal. Anthropologist Miguel Moniz (ICS, Universidade de Lisboa) and historian Gil Fernandes (York University) are public scholars with expertise in the contemporary issues and history of Portugal and Portuguese immigration in North America. Websites: miguelmoniz.com [https://www.miguelmoniz.com/] | gilbertofernandes.ca [https://gilbertofernandes.ca/] Instagram: @home_is_the_journey | @miguelmonizlisboa | @rapaz.gil For inquiries, email us at: homeisthejourney@gmail.com Music by Farra Fanfarra: farrafanfarra.bandcamp.com All rights reserved © Miguel Moniz & Gilberto Fernandes ---------------------------------------- Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy [https://acast.com/privacy] for more information.