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Associate Professor of Africana Studies Nigel Westmaas recently gave the keynote address at an event commemorating the first anniversary of the launch of the Buxton-Friendship Museum, Archive and Culture Center in Guyana.
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Associate Professor of Africana Studies Nigel Westmaas presented a paper “Navigating the personal and political in social activism across two lived experiences” at the “Protest and Dissent” conference in Vienna, Austria, on Dec. 1.
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Associate Professor of Africana Studies Nigel Westmaas was a guest on WRFG Radio Atlanta on December 9 as a guest discussant on developments and challenges in the Caribbean in 2017.
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Associate Professor of Africana Studies Nigel Westmaas presented a paper titled “Firebrands, Trade Unionists and Marxists: The Russian Revolution and the Emergence of the Left in Guyana 1917-1956” at the Institute for Black Atlantic Research, University of Central Lancashire, on Oct. 15.
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Associate Professor of Africana Studies Nigel Westmaas unearthed and published, with an introductory assessment, a significant speech made by a pioneer Guyanese and Caribbean labor leader Hubert Nathaniel Critchlow in March 1932. The Westmaas article, “Hubert Critchlow and the nexus between Christianity and Socialism” was published in Guyana’s national newspaper, the Stabroek News, on Aug. 20.
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Associate Professor of Africana Studies Nigel Westmaas presented a paper on the topic “The Historical and Contemporary Contours of Guyanese Philosophy” in Georgetown, Guyana, on May 23.
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