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Welcoming our 2023-23 Human Rights Lab Programming Interns
Announcing 2023-23 Human Rights Lab & Mass Incarceration Working Group Fellows
The Human Rights Lab is pleased to announce our Lab and Mass Incarceration Working Group (MIWG) Fellows student team for the 2022-23 academic year.
View ArticleWatch Phyllis Frye: The Fight for Transgender Rights
Phyllis Frye, a pioneer in the fight for transgender rights, delivered the 2022 Kirschner Human Rights Memorial Lecture on March 31, Transgender Day of Visibility.
View ArticleInterracial Marriage Under Attack: Thinking the Unthinkable
Read Dr. Jane Dailey's new article published in The Nation on the attack on interracial marriage in the Supreme Court.
View ArticleCall for Applications: Pozen Human Rights Doctoral Fellowship Program, 2022-2023
Doctoral students whose research intersects with human rights themes are invited to apply for this competitive yearlong fellowship opportunity. Fellows will meet throughout the academic year, typically twice per quarter, with members of the Pozen Center faculty. At the end of the academic year, Fellows will have made tangible progress on a piece of work and present it in the Doctoral Seminar.
View ArticleRead: "The Politics of Torture" by Kathleen Cavanaugh
Executive Director of Pozen Center, Kathleen Cavanaugh, has written a chapter of "Sharia Law in the Twenty-First Century", which consists of concise, detailed analytical studies on current critical discussions of Sharia in the Western and Muslim legal traditions.
View ArticleGallery Opening Jan 27th! Truth and Beauty in the Hard Places
Truth and Beauty in the Hard Places will be on display in Café Logan from Jan 27 - Mar 11, 2022, Don't miss!
View ArticleGraduate Lectureships in Human Rights
Doctoral students interested in lecturing a course of their own design this academic year should apply!
View ArticleThe Dr. Aizik Wolf Post-Baccalaureate Fellowship in Human Rights
The fellowship award supports one year of work after graduation at a non-governmental organization, government agency, or international body dedicated to human rights.
View ArticleNew Winter '22 Courses: HMRT 28215 and HMRT 23128
Matt Furlong, Pozen Center for Human Rights Social Science Teaching Fellow, is going to be instructing two courses in the upcoming Winter '22 quarter. HMRT 28215, Anthropological Approaches to Human Rights, and HMRT 23128, Sanctuary: Land Rights in Times of Rural Gentrification and Conservation Eviction, Interested students should register!
View ArticleWinter '22 Course: HMRT 21748 Global Human Rights Literature
Spots are still open for this class taught by Nory Peters!
View ArticleRead "Democracies and International Law" by Tom Ginsburg
Read "Agents of Change: Political Philosophy in Practice" by Ben Laurence
Watch: Human Rights Book Salon: Hedi Viterbo - "Problematizing Law, Rights, and Childhood in Israel/Palestine"
Watch Hedi Viterbo, from Queen Mary University of London, speak about his new book, Problematizing Law, Rights, and Childhood in Israel/Palestine.
View ArticleTeaching Assistant Needed for Winter 2022 Course!
The Pozen Center is looking for Teaching Assistants for HMRT 25118, Islam, Politics and Gender and HMRT 24007, Human Rights in China.
View ArticleAnnouncing 2021-22 Human Rights Lab Graduate Fellow and Mass Incarceration BA Thesis Mentors!
The Human Rights Lab is pleased to announce our Human Rights Lab Graduate Fellow and Mass Incarceration BA Thesis Mentors!
View ArticleGraduate Student Reflection: Reyna Hernandez
With research funding from the Pozen Family Center of Human Rights, Sociology Ph.D. student Reyna Hernandez aims to further understand how former prison inmates who were wrongfully convicted and now exonerated experienced incarceration. This work shows how the legal system’s miscarriages of justice perpetually transform the prison experience.
View ArticleTeaching Assistants Needed for Health and Human Rights Course
The Pozen Center is looking for Teaching Assistants for our Winter Quarter 2022 course, Health and Human Rights, HMRT 21400!
View ArticleAnnouncing 2021-22 Human Rights Lab & Mass Incarceration Working Group Fellows
The Human Rights Lab is pleased to announce our Lab and Mass Incarceration Working Group (MIWG) Fellows student team for the 2021-22 academic year.
View ArticleHuman Rights Startup Fund
The Human Rights Startup Fund offers UChicago students financial support for new and innovative human rights projects and events.
View ArticleListen to New Episodes of the Entitled Podcast!
Check out these new episodes of "Entitled," a podcast hosted by Pozen Faculty Board members Claudia Flores and Tom Ginsburg that gets into the weeds of global human rights debates.
View ArticleWork with the Pozen Center: Now Hiring for Full-Time and Graduate Student Roles
The Pozen Center is currently hiring for two full-time and two graduate student roles.
View ArticleNew Podcast on Human Rights
Check out the new podcast co-hosted by Pozen Faculty Board members Tom Ginsburg and Claudia Flores called Entitled, a podcast about why rights matter and what’s the matter with rights. Entitled explores current debates around rights through narrative storytelling and conversations with experts and advocates.
View ArticleWelcoming our 2021-22 Postdoctoral Instructor and Scholar in Human Rights
Paul Kohlbry and Hannah Ridge will join the Pozen Center for the 2021-22 academic year.
View ArticleUpcoming
Winter 2022 Human Rights Courses
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