Engage with the Pozen Center this Fall as we celebrate our 25th anniversary! There are opportunities to learn more about the new human rights major, the human rights internship and to attend events addressing human rights issues.

Human Rights at the Crossroads: A Colloquium Celebrating the 25th Anniversary of the Pozen Family Center for Human Rights 

Thursday, October 20, at 5:30 pm CT
International House, 1414 E. 59th St., with a reception to follow and Livestreamed

Join us for a cross-disciplinary colloquium examining the challenges facing the implementation of human rights in the global community. A distinguished panel of scholars and practitioners will share their insights on the politics and promise of the human rights project. Register here

Panelists

  • E. Tendayi Achiume, University of California, Los Angeles 
  • Aslı Ü. Bâli, Yale University 
  • Darren Byler, Simon Fraser University
  • Howard Chiang, University of California, Davis 
  • Kamari Clarke, University of Toronto 
  • Ayça Çubukçu, London School of Economics and Political Science 
  • Evan Lyon, Partners In Health
  • Suketu Mehta, New York University 
  • Samuel Moyn, Yale University 
  • Juno Jill Richards, Yale University

Moderators

  • Adom Getachew, Neubauer Family Assistant Professor of Political Science and the College 
  • Johanna Ransmeier, Associate Professor of History and the College
  • Jessica Darrow, Associate Instructional Professor, Crown Family School of Social Work, Policy, and Practice
  • Tom Ginsburg, Leo Spitz Distinguished Service Professor of International Law and Professor of Political Science

25TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE POZEN FAMILY CENTER FOR HUMAN RIGHTS SPECIAL EVENTS WITH THE COLLOQUIUM SPEAKERS

From Revolution to Devolution? Dilemmas of Decentralization in the Middle East

Aslı Ü. Bâli, Yale Law School
Wednesday, October 19, 2022, at 12:00 PM
Social Sciences Tea Room, Social Science Research Building, Room 201, 1126 E 59th St
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Co-sponsored by the Political Theory Workshop, Comparative Politics Workshop, Chicago Center for Contemporary Theory, and Pozen Family Center for Human Rights. Lunch will be provided from 12:00-12:30 PM. Prof. Bâli's talk will begin at 12:30 PM.

Transtopia and the Politics of History in the Sinophone Pacific

Howard Chiang, University of California, Davis
Friday, October 21, 2022, at 12:00 PM
John Hope Franklin Room, Social Science Research Building, Room 224, 1126 E 59th St
 
Co-sponsored by the Department of History, Center of the Study of Gender and Sexuality, and Pozen Family Center for Human Rights.

Justice in the Time of Law: A Conversation with Kamari Clarke and Ayça Çubukçu  

Kamari Clarke, University of Toronto & Ayça Çubukçu, London School of Economics and Political Science
Friday, October 21, 2022, at 12:00 PM
Albion Small Room, Social Science Research Building, Room 305, 1126 E 59th St
 
Moderated by Kaushik Sunder Rajan, (Anthropology). Co-sponsored by the Department of Anthropology, Department of Sociology, and Pozen Family Center for Human Rights.

Speculative Writing, Trans Narrative, and Antifascist Archives: A Reading and Discussion with Prof. Juno Richards

Juno Richards, Yale University
Friday, October 21, 2022, at 2:30 PM
Harper Memorial Library, Room 140, 1116 E 59th St
 
Hosted by Anna Torres (Comparative Literature). Co-sponsored by the Pozen Family Center for Human Rights at the University of Chicago. Lunch will be served.

The Camp as Classroom: Discipline, Technology and Agency in Uyghur Internment in Northwest China

Darren Byler, Simon Fraser University
Friday, October 21, 2022, at 3:30 PM
The Joseph Regenstein Library, Room 122, 1100 E 57th St
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Co-sponsored by the Center for East Asian Studies Lecture Series (2022,-2023), Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, and Pozen Family Center for Human Rights.

Literary Arts Lab: Migration and the Global Imaginary

Suketu Mehta, New York University, with Jennifer Croft and Mee-ju Ro.
Friday, October 21, 2022, at 4:00 PM
Logan Center for the Arts, Penthouse, 915 E 60th St
 
This event is part of the Creative Writing Fall Festival and moderated by Rachel DeWoskin (Creative Writing and English). Co-sponsored by the Program in Creative Writing, Seminary Co-op Bookstore, and Pozen Family Center for Human Rights.

Pozen 25th Anniversary Alumni-Student Networking Event

Friday, October 21, at 12:30 pm CT
Ida Noyes Hall, 1212 E. 59th St. 3rd Floor

Come meet human rights programing alumni to learn about their career paths and post-UChicago experiences at an informal networking event! Food will be served.

The AIDS Quilt in Prison: Carework and the Carceral State

Thursday, November 3, at 5 pm CT, Register
Gender for the Study of Gender and Sexuality, 5733 S. University Ave., Community Lounge

Across the late 1980s and 1990s, incarcerated activists organized AIDS peer education and advocacy in dozens of prisons and jails across the United States. Emily Hobson, Associate Professor of History, and Chair and Associate Professor of Gender, Race, and Identity at the University of Nevada, Reno, presents AIDS prison activism as a form of carework inside and against the carceral state. She uses as a central focus the creation and display, inside prisons, of panels for the NAMES Project AIDS Memorial Quilt. Incarcerated activists used quilt-making to advance HIV education, forge bonds across prison walls, and mourn imprisonment itself. Inseparable from other forms of collectivity and protest, AIDS prison quilts illuminated the power of radical carework to evade carceral control.

Guantanamo’s Legacy: From a Legal Black Hole to a Battleground in the Fight against Torture

Tuesday, November 8, at 6 pm CT
Ida Noyes Hall, 1212 E. 59th St. 3rd Floor, and Livestreamed 

Lisa Hajjar will discuss her new book, The War in Court: Inside the Long Fight against Torture, with a particular focus on the legal battles over the treatment of people detained at Guantanamo. 

Twenty years have passed since the first detainees arrived at Guantanamo Bay. Those who took up the fight against the government over torture, forced disappearance, protracted incommunicado detention, and invented law-of-war offenses in the military commissions were lawyers. Lisa Hajjar, Professor of Sociology at UC Santa Barbara, will explain why hundreds of legal professionals—the U.S. military’s Judge Advocate Generals and attorneys from the toniest corporate law firms, human rights lawyers and solo practitioners, law professors, and their students—were galvanized to defend the rule of law that was upended by the torture policy and enlisted in what turned into a war in court. The last front is the 9/11 case; the five defendants were disappeared and tortured by the CIA for years before being transferred to Guantanamo in 2006. That case, which started in 2008 and remains ongoing, will be the topic of her conversation with Cheryl Bormann, one of the defense attorneys in the 9/11 case. The moderator will be Darryl Li, assistant professor of Anthropology and Associate Member of the Law School.  Register here