Becoming a Human Rights Major

Join us for an informational session about the new Human Rights Major, which combines theory and practice in innovative ways at the University of Chicago.

Human Rights in Practice Internship Symposium 2023

Join us for our annual Human Rights in Practice Internship Symposium featuring presentations by 2022 Human Rights Interns.

Remaking the Exceptional: Tea, Torture, & Reparations | Chicago to Guantánamo with Artists Amber Ginsburg and Aaron Hughes, and Torture Survivors Mansoor Adayfi and La Tanya Jenifor-Sublett

Remaking the Exceptional: Tea, Torture, & Reparations | Chicago to Guantánamo, brings together activists, artists, poets, and torture survivors to investigate and resist the ecosystems of violence that connect Chicago to the US military prison in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. The publication uncovers moments of beauty, poetry, and shared humanity within and despite the traumas of state violence.

From Healing to Action with Chicago Torture Justice Memorials

Join the Human Rights Lab and partners to learn about how each of us can contribute to bringing about restoration, reparations, and justice for state violence.

Human Rights in a New Key: Podcast Launch + Study Break

Join us for the launch of Human Rights in a New Key and a study break! Listen to the trailer, come talk to the hosts, and get some much needed rest from school work.

Forum on Law and Legalities: Ben Laurence Workshop

The Forum on Law and Legalities welcomes UChicago's Professor Ben Laurence to workshop "The Teleology of Human Rights."

Urban Indigenous Healthcare: Community Solutions to Systemic Racism

Join us for a conversation with Jocelyn Formsma, Executive Director of the National Association of Friendship Centres, about historical and systemic injustices in the healthcare system toward Indigenous peoples – and the growing push for community-driven solutions.

Pozen Center Study Break

Join us for another casual study break! Drinks and food on us, drop by for however long you can.

Disastrous Politics and Counter Politics of Disaster in Turkey: Lecture by Firat Bozcali

This talk discusses how multiple temporalities and shifting spatial scales in which the earthquakes are experienced deepen the ongoing political and economic crises of authoritarianism in Turkey. It asks about the possibilities and limitations of dissident politics in the background of unfolding political disasters.

Democracy and A.I.–The Encroaching Machine: Reframing Rights in the Age of A.I.

A keynote address, "The Encroaching Machine: Reframing Rights in the Age of A.I." by Sheila Jasanoff will be followed by a conversation about the challenges that artificial intelligence and technology pose to Democracy.

SIDEBAR: Empowering Method with Zoe Butt and Tiffany Chung

A conversation with curator Zoe Butt, Pozen Center Visiting Professor, and artist Tiffany Chang. Part of the Sidebar series in collaboration with The Pozen Center, free and open to the public. Food and drinks will be served between 6:00-6:30.

Making and Showing Art in Transnational Spaces: A Roundtable Discussion

Join artists Lee Tzu-tung, Anna Engelhardt, and curators Zoe Butt and Asia Bazdyrieve for a conversation about their experiences making and presenting work in different political contexts and across national and community spaces.

25 Million Sparks: The Untold Story of Refugee Entrepreneurs

Join us in welcoming Andrew Leon Hanna (Bracken Bower Prize winner, Forbes 30-Under-30 social entrepreneur, Stanford Knight-Hennessy Scholar) for an engaging book talk. 

Film Screening of Patricio Guzman’s Memoria Obstinada

Film Screening Commemorating 50 Years Since the 9/11 Coup in Chile: Patricio Guzman’s Memoria Obstinada

Reimagine the Classroom: Learning Through the Prison Wall

Join us for a roundtable lunchtime conversation that explores possibilities for reimagining the classroom on Wednesday, May 17, 12 noon - 1:30 pm.

People and Cities in Protest: Ethics and Technologies of Representation

An event focusing on the questions of ethics and technologies of representation of popular protests through the example of the photo exhibit "Belarus-Faces of Resistance"

Human Rights Lab BA Thesis Symposium

Please join us in person or virtually to celebrate the Lab BA Thesis Fellows as they present their thesis research findings and analyses.

Fall 2023 Events & Opportunities

An overview of Fall 2023 events and opportunities.

"The Joy of Consent" with Manon Garcia, Chiara Cordelli & Agnes Callard

Manon Garcia discusses her new book, "Joy of Consent," with Chiara Cordelli (Political Science) and Agnes Callard (Philosophy)

Nader Nadery: Human Rights and the Future of Afghanistan

The Palestine Exception to Free Speech: A Signpost for Eroding Constitutional Rights

A public lecture by Dima Khalidi, founder and director of Palestine Legal.

Arts and Human Rights Internship in Thailand Info Session

Learn about the new summer 2024 Pozen Center internship (with a $6000 stipend). It is an opportunity to experience and learn with artists and curators working at the intersection of art and activism in the artist communities of Malaysia, Thailand, and Myanmar.

Defining Democracy: Democratic Commitment in the Arab World

Hannah Ridge discusses her work on attitudes toward democracy in the Arab World, in conversation with Lindsay Gifford.

Democratic Backsliding and the Sacrifice of Science in India

Anand Grover, one of India's leading human rights litigators, will reflect on the current state of democratic backsliding in India and how science is being sacrificed in public policy while the courts stand by without intervention. Introduced by Renslow Sherer of the Department of Medicine.

The Nonconformists: American and Czech Writers Across the Iron Curtain

Brian K. Goodman discusses his book "The Nonconformists: American and Czech Writers across the Iron Curtain," in conversation with Mark Bradley.

Human Rights in Practice Internship Symposium November 2023

Summer 2023 human rights interns will present their fieldwork and internship experiences. Join to hear how they addressed human rights issues and what they learned about human rights practice in their placement.

Protesting Jordan: Geographies of Power and Dissent

Jillian Schwedler will discuss Protesting Jordan: Geographies of Power and Dissent. She will be joined in conversation by Ghenwa Hayek. A Q&A and signing will follow the discussion.