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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.

Watch Hedi Viterbo, from Queen Mary University of London, speak about his new book, Problematizing Law, Rights, and Childhood in Israel/Palestine.

Watch the Pozen Center’s 2020-21 Human Rights BA Fellows present their thesis research findings and analyses.

Watch all four events in our series presented in conjunction with the Spring 2021 course “Human Rights in China,” led by Associate Professor Johanna Ransmeier and Pozen Visiting Professor Teng Biao.

Learn about the Human Rights Lab’s collaboration with White Snake Projects on a powerful new opera, Death By Life, which explores the intersection of systemic racism and mass incarceration in the wake of George Floyd’s murder.

Catch up on a jam-packed quarter of Human Rights Lab event programming!

Watch Dr. Lydia Z. Dixon discuss her new book, “Delivering Health,” in conversation with Pozen Center Postdoctoral Instructor Amy Krauss.

Watch Pozen Faculty Board member Jane Dailey discuss her latest book, “White Fright,” in conversation with Faculty Director Mark Bradley.

Watch the recording of the Lab and IOP’s virtual letter writing program for folks currently incarcerated in Illinois.

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”

Check out recordings from the Human Rights Lab’s powerful Autumn 2020 programming

Lab Director Alice Kim and Lab Graduate Assistant Durrell Washington led this vital conversation about what universities can and should do to help end mass incarceration.

The Human Rights Lab hosted Dr. Betts for this powerful series that spanned poetry, imagination, and joy.

Watch the 2019-20 Human Right Lab Fellows present on their fascinating BA theses.

The Human Rights Lab presented an urgent and thought-provoking panel earlier this week to discuss “The Long Term: Decarceration and Freedom in the COVID-19 Moment and Beyond.”

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

Four former Pozen Center Interns returned to campus for an enlightening career panel at the annual symposium.

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

UChicago's student newspaper covers the Pozen Center's full slate of Fall programming.

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’s Human Rights Lab is in the news this week. Read about the new initiative and last week's lunch with Eric Blackmon.

On January 17, 2019, the Pozen Center’s Festival of Human Rights marked the 70th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR). The Festival brought together the theory and practice of human rights for a campus and community audience.

On November 2, 2018, the Pozen Center convened a Health and Human Rights Workshop entitled, “Putting Human Rights to Work: Innovations in Human Rights Metrics and Practices.” Organized by faculty board member Dr. Renslow Sherer, the workshop was designed to offer a multidisciplinary review of human rights-based interventions in a variety of settings and with a range of vulnerable populations.

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.

The Pozen Center was thrilled to co-host a screening of The Area with the Film Studies Center this November, followed by a Q&A with the documentary’s directors Brian Ashby (AB’06) and David Schalliol (AM’04, PhD’15), and Deborah Payne, a producer and one of the film’s protagonists.