Selected Links to Public Talks, Lectures, and presentations
Perspectives from Portugal: Can Lessons from a Successful Opioid Crisis Intervention Inform U.S. Approaches?
Wasthenaw FAN FORUM, Ann Arbor, MI
For our April Family Forum, we’ll take a closer look at Portugal’s experience ameliorating its national opioid crisis and attempt to better understand how these successes could apply to US approaches. Join us as we welcome guest speaker Miguel Moniz, Ph.D., an anthropologist at the Center for Research in Anthropology, ISCTE- Instituto Universitário de Lisboa and Executive Director of the Migrant Communities Project (New England/Portugal).
Farmers, Founders, and Political Activism: The Portuguese and Cape Verdean Agricultural Community of Falmouth and the Upper Cape
New Bedford Whaling Museum
Portuguese and Lusophone-World Lecture Series
Recording of 2022 series inaugural lecture. How did agricultural communities of Portuguese and Cape Verdean immigrants on Cape Cod differ from their industry mill counterparts? This early 20th century New England immigrant agricultural community history challenges misconceptions about political participation, entrepreneurism, and activism.
Presented February 24, 2022.
"Black" and "White" Portuguese, the Americanization Movement and Racialized Migrant Labor
American Anthropological Association 2022 Annual Meetings November 9-13
"Unsettling Landscapes"
The creation and persistence of the “Black” and “White” Portuguese categories and constructions of non-white Portuguese identities emerging in US scientific debate, labor relations, and policy making during the large scale arrival of industrial and agricultural workers from Portugal provides a rich, though little examined unit of analysis.
Fulbright Alumni Series Talk: Creating ‘Black’ and ‘White’ Portuguese in the U.S.: Some Notes on Racial Inequalities and the Fight for Multicultural Democracy”
Fulbright Foundation, Portugal
Recorded talk of an invited Fulbright lecture discussing the emergence of the so-called "Black" and "White" Portuguese categories in US Race discourse in the early 20th century and its contemporary implications. Presented June 29, 2021.
Vida Luso Americana Convidado Dr. Miguel Moniz (com Helena da Silva Hughes)
The Portuguese Channel
Syndicated, New Bedford, MA
Entrevista gravada: Helena DaSilva Hughes fala com o antropólogo Miguel Moniz sobre a política de drogas em Portugal, uma recente conferência legislativa em Massachusetts e RI, e os esforços para diminuir as mortes por overdose e promover uma política de drogas mais humana nos EUA
Original air date July 7 2023.
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Whaling, Mill Work, and Falmouth Farming Communities, 1800s-Industrial period.
(Forgotten histories: Portuguese and Cape Verdean immigrants and how they shaped Cape Cod) 1/4
Migrant Communities Project / Falmouth Public Library lecture series
Recorded lecture examining the early history of Portuguese and Cape Verdean Migration to Falmouth and Cape Cod, MA. From the 1800s through the second Industrial Revolution. Presented October 5, 2021. (With Lew White)
Farmers, Laborers, and Unwanted Immigrants.
(Forgotten histories: Portuguese and Cape Verdean immigrants and how they shaped Cape Cod) 2/4
Migrant Communities Project / Falmouth Public Library lecture series
Recorded lecture exploring the growth of Portuguese and Cape Verdean immigration in Falmouth analyzed in the context of racialized labor processes. Presented October 12, 2021. (with Lew White)
Early 20th century immigrant Agricultural and Political Organizations and Activism.
(Forgotten histories: Portuguese and Cape Verdean immigrants and how they shaped Cape Cod) 3/4
Migrant Communities Project / Falmouth Public Library lecture series
Recorded lecture challenging the myth that Portuguese and Cape Verdean immigrants in New England were not politically active, as well as their role in the Americanization movement. Presented October 19, 2021. (with Lew White)
Falmouth Changes, Migration from Portugal Continues: Post WW II Transition from Farming to Construction.
(Forgotten histories: Portuguese and Cape Verdean immigrants and how they shaped Cape Cod) 4/4
Migrant Communities Project / Falmouth Public Library lecture series
Recorded lecture examining the decline of the immigrant agricultural industry and the rise of the builing trades. Also explores how the building of Otis Air National Guard Base transformed Falmouth. Presented October 26, 2021. (with Lew White)
Cape Cod Festival of Strawberries, 1951. Tourism and Romanticized Immigrant Labor.
(Rituals & Festivals: Cape Verdean, Portuguese & other Immigrant Place-Making Celebrations) 4/4
Migrant Communities Project / Falmouth Public Library lecture series
Recorded lecture about the history of the incredible and fantastic mess that was the 1951 Cape Cod Festival of Strawberries in Falmouth, MA and how it was saved by Portuguese and Cape Verdean immigrants. Presented April 26, 2022.
Rituals of Exclusion and Belonging: Pilgrim Celebrations, the 4th of July, and War Memorials
(Rituals & Festivals: Cape Verdean, Portuguese & other Immigrant Place-Making Celebrations) 2/4
Migrant Communities Project / Falmouth Public Library lecture series
Recorded lecture exploring how immigrants on Cape Cod have used community events, civic celebrations and memorializations to connect with and belong to a place. Presented April 19, 2022. (with Lew White)
The Festa do Espírito Santo/Azorean Holy Ghost Feast.
(Rituals & Festivals: Cape Verdean, Portuguese & other Immigrant Place-Making Celebrations) 2/4
Migrant Communities Project / Falmouth Public Library lecture series
Recorded lecture covering the history of Festa do Espirito Santo in the Azores and New England focusing on Falmouth's celebrations. Presented April 12, 2022. (with Lew White).
What is a ritual? Perspectives from Anthropology
(Rituals & Festivals: Cape Verdean, Portuguese & other Immigrant Place-Making Celebrations) 1/4
Migrant Communities Project / Falmouth Public Library lecture series
Recorded lecture providing an overview of how anthropologists think about rituals. Presented April 5, 2022.
Falmouth Forum on Opioids and Overdose: Recorded conference
Center of Biomedical Research Excellence (COBRE) on Opioids and Overdose (RI Hospital) and Migrant Communities Project
Organized by Dr. Miguel Moniz as a Migrant Communities Project/COBRE on Opioids and Overdose initiative with the town’s immigrant civil society organizations, healthcare providers, policy makers, and law enforcement officials, the Falmouth Forum called attention to disparities and access as a result of the criminalization of addiction in the Opioid Crisis, and promoted best practice approaches, including efforts to destigmatize SUDs and those seeking treatment.
Making "Malassadas"
a documentary short
Directed by Miguel Moniz (2020) 5:37
Anthropological documentary short film about the immigrant women who make and run the malassada concession at the Nossa Senhora do Rosário Church in Fox Point, Providence, RI. In control of this ritual element so central to community life, the women explain their art while "making malassadas. Video was shot in 2012 during research for the Portuguese National Science Foundation (FCT) project “Ritual, Etnicidade, Transnacionalismo: as Festas do Espírito Santo na América do Norte.”
Entrevista com o Dr. Miguel Moniz, conversa com Irene Amaral.
Radio Interview on the COBRE on Opioids and Overdose "Portuguese Model" initiative
WJFD, 97.3 FM (New Bedford)
Miguel Moniz conversa com Irene de Amaral sobre a iniciativa que pretende alterar a forma como o estado lida com os toxicodependentes, o que já levou muitos portugueses a serem deportados.
Eulalia Mendes: The Life Behind a Legacy feat. Dr. Miguel Moniz
UMass Dartmouth Speaker Series
Ferreira Mendes Portuguese American Archives and Center for Portuguese Studies and Culture, Dartmouth Community TV
Deported in 1952, Eula Mendes (Gouveia, Portugal) organized Portuguese ind-ustrial migrant workers participation in New Bedford, Massachusetts and the Northeast. Arrested several times during the New Bedford Textile Mill Workers strike, she was also blackballed from working in the mills. This talk highlights the role of migrant labor organizers in the industrial workers movement.
Creole Cosmopolitanism in a Cape Cod Town? Some Notes about Migrants, Conviviality, and Conflict (Recorded Lecture:)
Woods Hole Historical Museum, Falmouth, MA
The talk explores histories of conflict and cooperation in Falmouth after the arrival of 2000 migrants from Portugal in the early 1900s, through continued waves of migration examining the work of migrants from Portugal in agriculture, domestic work and manual labor, and complex racial identities.
Gloria de Sá Interviews UMass Dartmouth Center for Portuguese Studies and Culture Distinguished Visiting Scholar, Miguel Moniz
University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth CPSC and the Ferreira Mendes Portuguese American Archives, Claire T Carney Library
Conversation with Miguel Moniz (University of Lisbon, Instituto of Social Sciences) who was at the invited to the center for research under the auspices of the Hélio and Amelia Pedroso/FLAD Distinguished Visiting Scholar grant, discussing migrant community civic, social and recreational associations, the racialization of migrant labor, and migrant labor activism.
Entrevista Conversas que Importam com Miguel Moniz (Irene Amaral).
WJFD, 97.3 FM (New Bedford)
Miguel Moniz conversa com Irene de Amaral sobre conferênica multi-site Migration and Mill Work. 3 Dezembro 2017. Falando sobre o programa único, o organizador da conferência Miguel Moniz disse "Para os participantes que atendem os quatro dias, é como tirar um seminário intensivo sobre imigração e trabalho fabril e este período inicial da história da imigração portuguesa."
