Pozen Center 2022-23 Director's Report
Just Released: Pozen Center Director's Report highlighting the events and accomplishments of the past year and sharing some of our plans as we move into the new academic year.
View ArticleJust Released: Pozen Center Director's Report highlighting the events and accomplishments of the past year and sharing some of our plans as we move into the new academic year.
View ArticlePhyllis 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 ArticleWatch Hedi Viterbo, from Queen Mary University of London, speak about his new book, Problematizing Law, Rights, and Childhood in Israel/Palestine.
View ArticleWatch the Pozen Center’s 2020-21 Human Rights BA Fellows present their thesis research findings and analyses.
View ArticleWatch 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.
View ArticleLearn 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.
View ArticleCatch up on a jam-packed quarter of Human Rights Lab event programming!
View ArticleWatch Dr. Lydia Z. Dixon discuss her new book, “Delivering Health,” in conversation with Pozen Center Postdoctoral Instructor Amy Krauss.
View ArticleWatch Pozen Faculty Board member Jane Dailey discuss her latest book, “White Fright,” in conversation with Faculty Director Mark Bradley.
View ArticleWatch the recording of the Lab and IOP’s virtual letter writing program for folks currently incarcerated in Illinois.
View ArticleWatch a recording of the 2020 Robert H. Kirschner, MD, Human Rights Memorial Lecture, “From D.C. to Damascus: The Architecture of Modern-Day Authoritarianism”
View ArticleCheck out recordings from the Human Rights Lab’s powerful Autumn 2020 programming
View ArticleLab 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.
View ArticleThe Human Rights Lab hosted Dr. Betts for this powerful series that spanned poetry, imagination, and joy.
View ArticleWatch the 2019-20 Human Right Lab Fellows present on their fascinating BA theses.
View ArticleThe 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.”
View ArticleFaculty Director Mark Bradley writes to the Pozen Center community in this uncertain time.
View ArticleFour former Pozen Center Interns returned to campus for an enlightening career panel at the annual symposium.
View ArticleLearn about all of the incredible events the Human Rights Lab put on this Fall!
View ArticleUChicago's student newspaper covers the Pozen Center's full slate of Fall programming.
View ArticleAlbert 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.
View ArticleThe 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.
View ArticleOn 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.
View ArticleOn 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.
View ArticleDecember 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.
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