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Watch a recording of the 2020 Robert H. Kirschner, MD, Human Rights Memorial Lecture, “From D.C. to Damascus: The Architecture of Modern-Day Authoritarianism”

Texts from the Human Rights in World Civilizations Core sequence are being featured in a campus-specific augmented reality commission.

Learn more about the inaugural cohort of Human Rights Lab Justice Interns.

The Pozen Center is seeking our next Postdoctoral Instructor in Human Rights!

The Lab welcomes Alex Y. Ding as our Summer 2020 Activist-in-Residence.

Read full theses from members of this year’s inspiring cohort of Human Rights Lab BA Fellows.

TIME recently asked 21 historians, including Faculty Director Mark Bradley, to write about their picks for worst moments from American history “that hold a lesson—and what they think those experiences can teach us.”

Faculty Board member Kaushik Sunder Rajan recently curated an excellent and timely conversation in The India Forum.

The Pozen Center is hard at work developing new initiatives to serve students in the College.

We're thrilled to lift up the amazing work these students will be doing in the coming academic year!

Mark Bradley addresses the killing of George Floyd and the Pozen Center's commitment to racial equity and inclusion.

Learn about the Pozen Center's latest Dr. Aizik Wolf Post-Baccalaureate Fellow and Dissertation Completion Fellow.

The generous support from Richard and Ann Pozen extends the pilot period of the Lab from three years to five.

Incoming Executive Director Kathleen Cavanaugh brings decades of experience and a slate of exciting new courses to the Pozen Center.

Learn about how Human Rights Lab Artist-in-Residence Dorothy Burge has diverted her creative energy in light of the ongoing pandemic.

Human Rights Lab Director Alice Kim on the unprecedented threat COVID-19 poses for incarcerated populations.

Read about what the College’s updated Pass/Fail grading policy in Spring 2020 means for Human Rights minors and students in the virtual Vienna study abroad course sequence.

Doctoral candidate Sandra H. Park recently published her essay, "Finding the Taejon Massacre in Independence, Missouri" on #AsiaNow, the blog of the Association for Asian Studies.

Faculty Director Mark Bradley writes to the Pozen Center community in this uncertain time.

Learn about all of the incredible events the Human Rights Lab put on this Fall!

Albert Woodfox, who will deliver the Pozen Center's Fall 2019 Kirschner Lecture on November 7th, has been named a finalist for the National Book Award.

The Pozen Center for Human Rights invites applications for its 2019-20 Human Rights Preceptor position. The Preceptor works closely with Pozen Center staff to precept Human Rights minors as well as Interns in the Human Rights Internship Program. This position is open to doctoral students in any department or professional school of the University of Chicago.

The Pozen Center announces an exciting opportunity for students to study abroad at the new University of Chicago Hong Kong Center. Hong Kong: Human Rights in Asia is a three-week course offered before the beginning of Fall Quarter in September 2019.

December 10, 2018 marks the 70th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights—the landmark document that for the first time enumerated the fundamental human rights to be universally honored and protected. On January 17, 2019, the Pozen Family Center for Human Rights will honor and commemorate this milestone anniversary with a Festival of Human Rights. Students, faculty, and community members will select one of the UDHR’s thirty articles and interpret it through a contemporary lens. Over an eight-hour period, attendees will be invited to immerse themselves in the theory and practice of human rights through art making, literature, historical reflection, and more.

Director of Human Rights Practice Alice Kim is coeditor of and contributor to a new book illustrating the devastation caused by an unjust prison system. Kim is the inaugural director of the new Human Rights Lab, a project of the Pozen Center, that is engaging students and community in human rights work addressing mass incarceration and racialized policing.