Past events are organized by academic year. If an event was organized as part of a faculty project, a description may also be found under Projects.
Come learn about the unique opportunity to take "Narrating Social Change," a mixed enrollment course offered in Spring Quarter that will be held at Stateville Correctional Center in Crest Hill, Illinois.
Connect with students, community members, faculty, and staff involved in the Mass Incarceration Working Group.
Join the Human Rights Lab and UChicago Amnesty International as we participate in the Mississippi Freedom Letters Campaign, a project to write letters to every person incarcerated in Mississippi.
Support incarcerated students by donating books for individual students and the Prison+Neighborhood Arts Project and the University Without Walls Resource Room at Stateville Prison.
Join the Pozen Center for our annual Human Rights in Practice Internship Symposium featuring presentations by 2019 Human Rights Interns and program alumni.
Join the Mass Incarceration Working Group and Katherine Franke for a roundtable discussion with local activists including Lab Director Alice Kim regarding topics surrounding Franke's most recent book, "Repair: Redeeming the Promise of Slavery's Abolition."
Learn about the recent protests in India. Ather Zia, Krithika Ashok, Jenisha Borah, and Isabela Fraga will be speaking, followed by a Q&A session.
Come hear from some of Chicago’s most creative community activists.
Come meet outstanding lawyers who are at the forefront of deportation defense, community education, and federal litigation.
Authors and editors Elissa Washuta and Theresa Warburton discuss their new edited anthology, "Shapes of Native Nonfiction."
Join Human Rights Lab Artist-in-Residence Dorothy Burge, a self-taught fabric and multimedia artist, as she demonstrates how artistic practice can be a tool to teach history, raise cultural awareness, and inspire action.
Join the Human Rights Lab and its partners for an exploration of mass incarceration through the lens of state government, advocacy organizations, and nonprofits. Open to UChicago students only. Registration required.
Join us for a three-day conference exploring the shifting conceptions of race and ethnicity through the transition from the Russian to the Soviet empires.
In our second Smart Talk of the academic year, join University of Chicago Law Professors Tom Ginsburg and Claudia Flores alongside activist Oscar Chacón for a discussion of refugee and migrant rights in the current political landscape.
Join us for a poetry reading and Artists Live conversation featuring acclaimed poet and performing artist Staceyann Chin and professor Danielle Roper.
Join us for a workshop and discussion with Ryan Young, Two Spirit Ojibwe multidisciplinary artist from the Lac du Flambeau reservation.
Join us as this day-long conference brings together government officials, academics, and women’s rights advocates from the region to share and reflect on the challenges, opportunities, and impact of constitutional language and reform on women’s rights.
Join us for a panel conversation on the crisis of incarceration.
PhD Research Grant Applications NEW Deadline: April 17, 2020
