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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.

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

Check out the amazing projects that students produced during the Lab’s “Narrating Social Change” course last Spring.

Learn more about some of the professors who will be teaching Human Rights courses this Autumn Quarter.

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

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.

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.”

Explore some of the amazing work students produced in Postdoctoral Instructor Amy Krauss's Winter 2020 course, “Pain and Representation.”

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.

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