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Announcing 2023-23 Human Rights Lab & Mass Incarceration Working Group Fellows
The Human Rights Lab is pleased to announce our Lab and Mass Incarceration Working Group (MIWG) Fellows student team for the 2022-23 academic year.
View ArticleGallery Opening Jan 27th! Truth and Beauty in the Hard Places
Truth and Beauty in the Hard Places will be on display in Café Logan from Jan 27 - Mar 11, 2022, Don't miss!
View ArticleAnnouncing 2021-22 Human Rights Lab Graduate Fellow and Mass Incarceration BA Thesis Mentors!
The Human Rights Lab is pleased to announce our Human Rights Lab Graduate Fellow and Mass Incarceration BA Thesis Mentors!
View ArticleWork with the Pozen Center: Now Hiring for Full-Time and Graduate Student Roles
The Pozen Center is currently hiring for two full-time and two graduate student roles.
View ArticleAnnouncing the 2021-22 Human Rights Lab BA Fellows
Congratulations to the 2021-22 cohort of Human Rights Lab BA Fellows!
View ArticleWatch: Human Rights BA Fellows Thesis Presentations
Watch the Pozen Center’s 2020-21 Human Rights BA Fellows present their thesis research findings and analyses.
View ArticleLab Director Alice Kim on Reimagining Justice in the Chicago Police Torture Cases
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.”
View Article“Understanding and Responding to Mass Incarceration” Event Series Roundup
Watch all three events in the Lab’s “Understanding and Responding to Mass Incarceration” series.
View ArticleDorothy Burge Awarded BAC + Art Center Residency
2020 Human Rights Lab Artist-in-Residence Dorothy Burge has been awarded a BAC + Art Center Residency for Summer 2021!
View ArticleHuman Rights Lab Collaborates with Activist Opera Company on Interactive Forum Series and Virtual Opera
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.
View ArticleICYMI: Human Rights Lab Winter Event Roundup
Catch up on a jam-packed quarter of Human Rights Lab event programming!
View ArticleHuman Rights Lab and CSRPC Announce Inaugural 2021 Practitioner Fellows
The Human Rights Lab and the Center for the Study of Race, Politics, and Culture are pleased to announce our inaugural 2021 Practitioner Fellows.
View ArticleWatch: The Lab and IOP collaborate for Letter Writing to Incarcerated Individuals
Watch the recording of the Lab and IOP’s virtual letter writing program for folks currently incarcerated in Illinois.
View ArticleScenes from the 2020 Pozen Center Holiday Party!
See pictures from the Pozen Center’s first-ever virtual holiday party.
View ArticleHuman Rights Lab Justice Intern Update
Read updates from the inaugural cohort of Human Rights Lab Justice Interns.
View ArticleICYMI: Catch up on the Lab’s Autumn 2020 events
Check out recordings from the Human Rights Lab’s powerful Autumn 2020 programming
View ArticleWatch: The Lab convenes a conversation on "The University and the Prison"
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.
View ArticleAnnouncing the Human Rights Lab Justice Interns!
Learn more about the inaugural cohort of Human Rights Lab Justice Interns.
View ArticleAlex Y. Ding Named Human Rights Lab Activist-in-Residence
The Lab welcomes Alex Y. Ding as our Summer 2020 Activist-in-Residence.
View Article“Narrating Social Change” Student Projects Spotlight
Check out the amazing projects that students produced during the Lab’s “Narrating Social Change” course last Spring.
View ArticleHuman Rights Lab BA Fellows Thesis Roundup
Read full theses from members of this year’s inspiring cohort of Human Rights Lab BA Fellows.
View ArticleWatch: Poet and Editor Tara Betts leads two-day series on “Prison, Poetry, and the Pandemic: Speculating Joy and Futures”
The Human Rights Lab hosted Dr. Betts for this powerful series that spanned poetry, imagination, and joy.
View ArticleWatch: Lab Fellows discuss “Carceral Realities at Home and Abroad”
Watch the 2019-20 Human Right Lab Fellows present on their fascinating BA theses.
View ArticleWatch: Lab Event Discusses “Decarceration and Freedom in the COVID-19 Moment and Beyond”
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.”
View ArticleUpcoming
Winter 2022 Human Rights Courses
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