We are delighted to announce that the Centre for Humanities Research and the W. E. B. Du Bois Centre at the University of Massachusetts have recently signed a Memoranda of Understanding.
The purpose of this partnership is to foster transcontinental solidarity around the ideals of racial justice, social equality, democracy, dignity and peace. It is also intended to facilitate knowledge sharing between our two organisations, to provide a platform for the interchange of ideas, to produce engaging programming for a diverse set of audiences on both sides of the Atlantic, and to encourage new interdisciplinary research and scholarship.
About the W. E. B. Du Bois Centre:
The W. E. B. Du Bois Center at the University of Massachusetts Amherst was established in 2009 to engage audiences in discussion and scholarship about global issues involving race, labor, and social justice. UMass Amherst is the proud home of the W. E. B. Du Bois Papers, which are housed on the 25th floor of the library in Special Collections University Archives. The entire collection is free to view digitally.
The Du Bois Center’s mission is to make the writings of W. E. B. Du Bois, as well as his contemporaries, available and accessible to everyone throughout the world for application to the problems and issues of the 21st Century, and to create new knowledge and support scholarship emanating from the life and teachings of W. E. B. Du Bois.