Azorean community personalities featured in “Diaspora Talks”
The “Diaspora Talks” initiative of the Regional Directorate for the Communities returns this month for a new season, now dedicated to biographical interviews with personalities who were born in the Azores and who have made their mark in Azorean communities.
This cycle of sessions will be broadcast live on the official Facebook page of the Regional Directorate for the Communities every Monday at 6 pm (Azores time) for about thirty minutes.
Professor Onésimo Teotónio Almeida is the first guest of the “Diaspora Talks,” which will begin next Monday, January 9, and continue throughout 2023.
Onésimo Almeida was born in the parish of Pico da Pedra, São Miguel Island, having received his Ph.D. in Philosophy from Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island. He emigrated in 1972 to the United States of America, where he taught for several years at Brown University’s Center for Portuguese and Brazilian Studies.
He is the author of numerous works and collaborates with various media outlets of the Portuguese communities in North America. He was awarded the Order of Prince Henry – Commander by the Portuguese Republic in 1997 and was bestowed the Autonomic Commendation of Professional Merit by the Autonomous Region of the Azores in 2009.
The following “Diaspora Talks” sessions will feature biographical interviews with other personalities, such as professors José Carlos Teixeira (British Columbia) and Diniz Borges (California), entrepreneurs António Frias (Massachusetts) and Manuel Eduardo Vieira (California), politicians Tony Cabral (Massachusetts) and Luís Miranda (Quebec) or the honorary consuls Idalmiro da Rosa (California) and Paulo Cabral (Manitoba).
This fifth season of “Diaspora Talks” comes in the wake of four weekly series dedicated to the Houses of the Azores, Azorean Diaspora Advisers, community social work organisations and media outlets serving Azorean communities in the United States and Canada during 2021 and 2022.
