Pozen Family Center for Human Rights - The University of Chicago

Mixed Enrollment Info Session

Tuesday, Jan 21, 2020 5 – 6 pm Pozen Conference Room, 5720 S. Woodlawn Ave.

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.

Mass Incarceration Working Group Reception

Thursday, Jan 23, 2020 4:30 – 6:30 pm Center for the Study of Race, Politics, & Culture Community Room, 5733 S. University Ave.

Connect with students, community members, faculty, and staff involved in the Mass Incarceration Working Group.

Mississippi Freedom Letters Campaign

Tuesday, Jan 28, 2020 6 – 8 pm Pozen Conference Room, 5720 S. Woodlawn Ave.

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.

Book Drive for Students at Stateville Prison

Thursday, Jan 30 – Feb 14, 2020 9 am – 5 pm Reynolds Club, 5706 S. University Ave.

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.

2020 Human Rights in Practice Internship Symposium

Friday, Jan 31, 2020 10 am – 4 pm Regenstein Library, Room 122, 1100 E. 57th St.

Join the Pozen Center for our annual Human Rights in Practice Internship Symposium featuring presentations by 2019 Human Rights Interns and program alumni.

Katherine Franke's Repair: Redeeming the Promise of Abolition

Thursday, Feb 6, 2020 4:30 – 6 pm Center for the Study of Race, Politics, and Culture Community Room, 5733 S. University Ave.

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."

Emergent Global Fascisms: A Teach-In

Tuesday, Feb 11, 2020 5:30 – 7 pm Eckhardt Research Center Room 401, 5640 S. Ellis Ave.

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.

Building Community-Based Power: "Nothing About Us Without Us"

Tuesday, Feb 11, 2020 6:30 – 8 pm Center for the Study of Race, Politics, and Culture Community Room, 5733 S. University Ave.

Come hear from some of Chicago’s most creative community activists.

So You Want to Be an Immigrants' Rights Lawyer?

Tuesday, Feb 18, 2020 6:30 – 8 pm Center for the Study of Race, Politics, and Culture Community Room, 5733 S. University Ave.

Come meet outstanding lawyers who are at the forefront of deportation defense, community education, and federal litigation.

What Justice Looks Like: Art as Activism

Friday, Feb 21, 2020 12:30 – 3:30 pm Reynolds Club, McCormick Lounge, 5706 S. University Ave.

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.

Elissa Washuta & Theresa Warburton: Shapes of Native Nonfiction

Friday, Feb 21, 2020 12:30 – 2 pm Social Science Research Building, Room 302, 1126 E. 59th St.

Authors and editors Elissa Washuta and Theresa Warburton discuss their new edited anthology, "Shapes of Native Nonfiction."

Local Chicago Trek: Mass Incarceration

Friday, Feb 28, 2020 8:30 am – 2 pm Multiple Locations

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.

Symposium: Thinking Race in the Russian and Soviet Empires

Thursday, Mar 5 – 7, 2020 4 – 5 pm Multiple Locations

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.

Smart Talk: What About Human Rights? - "Borders and Human Rights: Can They Be Reconciled?"

Thursday, Mar 5, 2020 9 – 10 pm Smart Museum of Art, 5550 S. Greenwood Ave.

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.

Artists Live: Staceyann Chin in conversation with Danielle Roper

Tuesday, Mar 10, 2020 4:30 – 6 pm Center for the Study of Race, Politics, and Culture Community Room, 5733 S. University Ave.

Join us for a poetry reading and Artists Live conversation featuring acclaimed poet and performing artist Staceyann Chin and professor Danielle Roper.

Niizh Manidoowag (Two-Spirit) Resistance: Ryan Young

Tuesday, Mar 10, 2020 6 – 8 pm Center for Identity + Inclusion Community Room, 5710 S. Woodlawn Ave.

Join us for a workshop and discussion with Ryan Young, Two Spirit Ojibwe multidisciplinary artist from the Lac du Flambeau reservation.

International Law and Pandemics: An Overview in Light of the COVID-19 Crisis

Tuesday, Apr 21, 2020 12:15 – 1:20 pm Zoom Event

Join UChicago Law's International Human Rights Clinic for this important discussion with Pedro A. Villarreal of the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law.

Human Rights BA Fellowship Info Session

Wednesday, Apr 29, 2020 5 – 6:30 pm Zoom Event

Join Faculty Director Mark Bradley and Lab Director Alice Kim for more information about this exciting opportunity for rising fourth-years.

Human Rights Doctoral Fellows Program Info Session

Friday, May 1, 2020 4:30 – 6 pm Zoom Event

Join Faculty Director Mark Bradley and Fellowship Coordinator Nory Peters to learn more about the application, the Fellowship year, and more.

Historicizing COVID-19: A Roundtable

Friday, May 8, 2020 11:30 am – 1 pm Zoom Event

Join us for this roundtable featuring Pozen Center Faculty Board Co-Chair Tara Zahra

The "Great Equalizer"? Interrogating COVID-19's Racial Filter

Monday, May 18, 2020 6 – 7:30 pm Zoom Event

Join the Human Rights Lab and its partners for a panel exploring racial disparities and their roots in entrenched structural racism.

The Long Term: Decarceration and Freedom in the COVID-19 Moment and Beyond

Tuesday, May 26, 2020 6 – 7:15 pm Zoom Event

Join the Human Rights Lab and its partners as panelists reflect on the impact of COVID-19 behind bars and contemporary struggles to end death by incarceration.

Remembering Mine: A Roundtable on Liberatory Memory Work

Thursday, May 28, 2020 4 – 5:15 pm Zoom Event

Join the Human Rights Lab for a virtual roundtable discussion as we explore the power of liberatory memory work and truth-telling platforms on the five year anniversary of Chicago's reparations ordinance for survivors of Jon Burge police torture.

Attending to the Here and Now: A Vigil Against Anti-Black Violence

Tuesday, Jun 2, 2020 6:30 – 8 pm Zoom Event

A space for current students to process, grieve, and to the extent possible, find healing in the context of so much loss.

Carceral Realities at Home and Abroad: A Human Rights Lab Fellows Roundtable

Monday, Jun 8, 2020 4 – 5:30 pm Zoom Event

Join us to celebrate the Pozen Center Human Rights Lab Fellows as they participate in a lightning round of presentations about their BA theses.

Philosophy in the Streets: Police Repression, Racism, and Urban Uprisings

Monday, Jun 8, 2020 4:30 – 6 pm Zoom Event

The Department of Philosophy invites you to join Professors Anton Ford, Tyler Zimmer, and Ben Laurence for a conversation about the urban uprisings against racism and police repression.

How to File a Clemency Petition: Teach-In for Loved Ones

Saturday, Jun 13, 2020 3 – 4:30 pm Zoom Event

Join us for a virtual teach-in designed to help families and incarcerated people file emergency commutation petitions without the help of an attorney, in light of the threat posed by COVID-19.

A Reading and Conversation with Tara Betts

Tuesday, Jun 30, 2020 6 – 7 pm Zoom Event

Join the Human Rights Lab for the first event in our two-part series, “Prison, Poetry, and the Pandemic: Speculating Joy and Futures,” with poet and editor Tara Betts.

Speculating Futures Writing Workshop with Tara Betts

Wednesday, Jul 1, 2020 6 – 7:30 pm Zoom Event

Join the Human Rights Lab for the second event in our two-part series, “Prison, Poetry, and the Pandemic: Speculating Joy and Futures,” with poet and editor Tara Betts.

Academic Opportunities Fair

Wednesday, Sep 30, 2020 3 – 6 pm Virtual Learn More and Register

Students, stop by our booth at the academic opportunities fair!

Pozen Center Virtual Open House

Wednesday, Oct 7, 2020 4:30 – 5:30 pm Virtual Eventbrite Registration

Virtually stroll through the Pozen Center breakout rooms at this year’s Open House to explore our Human Rights Minor, the work of the Human Rights Lab, our Internship Program, and more!

Human Rights Internship Program Info Session

Tuesday, Oct 13, 2020 4:30 – 5:30 pm Virtual Eventbrite Registration

Come learn about the Human Rights Internship Program! Staff members and student Human Rights Leaders will be available to answer your questions about the application, internship search, program timeline, and more.

A Conversation with Susan Burton

Thursday, Oct 22, 2020 2 – 3:30 pm Zoom Event

Join the Human Rights Lab for a conversation with Susan Burton, founder of A New Way of Life Reentry Project (ANWOL) and author (with journalist, Cari Lynn) of the award-winning memoir “Becoming Ms. Burton: From Prison to Recovery to Leading the Fight for Incarcerated Women.”

Election 2020 Teach-in: Electoral Politics and Representative Governance

Friday, Oct 23, 2020 12 – 1:30 pm Zoom Event Learn More and Register

This second teach-in of the series will consider the stakes of the elections for institutions of democratic governance. Through consideration of a range of institutional sites—political parties, the judiciary, corporations, and unions—panelists will consider the ways in which these elections might open up or constrain representative possibilities.

The University and the Prison

Friday, Oct 30, 2020 12 – 1:30 pm Virtual

Join the Human Rights Lab for a conversation grappling with the question of what universities can do to end mass incarceration.

2020 Kirschner Lecture - From D.C. to Damascus: The Architecture of Modern-Day Authoritarianism

Wednesday, Nov 11, 2020 7 – 8:30 pm Zoom Event

This deeply relevant conversation will center on the work of scholars whose writings and research seek to understand the challenges posed by authoritarian regimes around the world.

Human Rights in Practice Internship Symposium

Friday, Nov 13, 2020 10 am – 5:15 pm Zoom Event

Join us for our annual Human Rights in Practice Internship Symposium featuring presentations by 2020 Human Rights Interns and program alumni.

Deglobalization and Anti-Globalism in Central Europe (Session 1): Interwar Deglobalization and International Mobility

Friday, Nov 13, 2020 12:30 – 1:30 pm Zoom Event Zoom Registration

Join us for the first session of a virtual conference exploring issues of globalization and its opponents from various disciplinary perspectives. The conference will take place online on the second Friday of the month, from November 2020 to February 2021.

Alec Karakatsanis in conversation on “Usual Cruelty: The Complicity of Lawyers in the Criminal Injustice System”

Monday, Nov 16, 2020 5 – 6:30 pm Zoom Event

Join the Human Rights Lab for a conversation with civil rights lawyer Alec Karakatsanis on his book, “Usual Cruelty: The Complicity of Lawyers in the Criminal Injustice System.”

Human Rights Book Salon: Jill Richards - “The Fury Archives: Female Citizenship, Human Rights, and the International Avant-Gardes”

Wednesday, Nov 18, 2020 4 – 5:30 pm Zoom Event

Join us for our inaugural Human Rights Book Salon, as Jill Richards discusses her new book, “The Fury Archives: Female Citizenship, Human Rights, and the International Avant-Gardes,” with UChicago respondents Sonali Thakkar, Anna Elena Torres, and Brandon Truett.

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Mixed Enrollment Info Session

Mass Incarceration Working Group Reception

Mississippi Freedom Letters Campaign

Book Drive for Students at Stateville Prison

2020 Human Rights in Practice Internship Symposium

Katherine Franke's Repair: Redeeming the Promise of Abolition

Emergent Global Fascisms: A Teach-In

Building Community-Based Power: "Nothing About Us Without Us"

So You Want to Be an Immigrants' Rights Lawyer?

What Justice Looks Like: Art as Activism

Elissa Washuta & Theresa Warburton: Shapes of Native Nonfiction

Local Chicago Trek: Mass Incarceration

Symposium: Thinking Race in the Russian and Soviet Empires

Smart Talk: What About Human Rights? - "Borders and Human Rights: Can They Be Reconciled?"

Artists Live: Staceyann Chin in conversation with Danielle Roper

Niizh Manidoowag (Two-Spirit) Resistance: Ryan Young

International Law and Pandemics: An Overview in Light of the COVID-19 Crisis

Human Rights BA Fellowship Info Session

Human Rights Doctoral Fellows Program Info Session

Historicizing COVID-19: A Roundtable

The "Great Equalizer"? Interrogating COVID-19's Racial Filter

The Long Term: Decarceration and Freedom in the COVID-19 Moment and Beyond

Remembering Mine: A Roundtable on Liberatory Memory Work

Attending to the Here and Now: A Vigil Against Anti-Black Violence

Carceral Realities at Home and Abroad: A Human Rights Lab Fellows Roundtable

Philosophy in the Streets: Police Repression, Racism, and Urban Uprisings

How to File a Clemency Petition: Teach-In for Loved Ones

A Reading and Conversation with Tara Betts

Speculating Futures Writing Workshop with Tara Betts

Academic Opportunities Fair

Pozen Center Virtual Open House

Human Rights Internship Program Info Session

A Conversation with Susan Burton

Election 2020 Teach-in: Electoral Politics and Representative Governance

The University and the Prison

2020 Kirschner Lecture - From D.C. to Damascus: The Architecture of Modern-Day Authoritarianism

Human Rights in Practice Internship Symposium

Deglobalization and Anti-Globalism in Central Europe (Session 1): Interwar Deglobalization and International Mobility

Alec Karakatsanis in conversation on “Usual Cruelty: The Complicity of Lawyers in the Criminal Injustice System”

Human Rights Book Salon: Jill Richards - “The Fury Archives: Female Citizenship, Human Rights, and the International Avant-Gardes”

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