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Zoe Butt is a curator and writer who lives and works between Chiang Mai, Thailand and Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. Her practice focuses on critically thinking, historically conscious artistic communities; fostering dialogue among cultures of the globalizing souths; working with public/private institutions and independent artistic operatives, globally.

Read Dr. Jane Dailey's new article published in The Nation on the attack on interracial marriage in the Supreme Court.

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.

Doctoral students interested in lecturing a course of their own design this academic year should apply!

The fellowship award supports one year of work after graduation at a non-governmental organization, government agency, or international body dedicated to human rights.

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.

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.

Paul Kohlbry and Hannah Ridge will join the Pozen Center for the 2021-22 academic year.

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

Check out great photos from this year’s graduates alongside messages from Pozen Center faculty.

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.

A blog post from Lab Director Alice Kim on the six-year anniversary of Chicago’s historic reparations legislation for survivors of Jon Burge police torture, her solidarity-centered pedagogical practice, and student projects “reimagining justice.”

Watch all three events in the Lab’s “Understanding and Responding to Mass Incarceration” series.

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.

The Pozen Center is pleased to announce the appointment of Lindsay Gifford as Assistant Research Professor.

Read what students have to say about Autumn Quarter’s innovative Human Rights course bundle.

See pictures from the Pozen Center’s first-ever virtual holiday party.

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.

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