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Congratulations to the 2021-22 cohort of Human Rights Lab BA Fellows!

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

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.

2020 Human Rights Lab Artist-in-Residence Dorothy Burge has been awarded a BAC + Art Center Residency for Summer 2021!

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!

The Human Rights Lab and the Center for the Study of Race, Politics, and Culture are pleased to announce our inaugural 2021 Practitioner Fellows.

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

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

Read updates from the inaugural cohort of Human Rights Lab Justice Interns.

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.

Learn more about the inaugural cohort of Human Rights Lab Justice Interns.

The Lab welcomes Alex Y. Ding as our Summer 2020 Activist-in-Residence.

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

Read full theses from members of this year’s inspiring cohort of Human Rights Lab BA Fellows.

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.”

The generous support from Richard and Ann Pozen extends the pilot period of the Lab from three years to five.

Learn about how Human Rights Lab Artist-in-Residence Dorothy Burge has diverted her creative energy in light of the ongoing pandemic.

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

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

The Institute on Memory and Human Rights explores the role of memorials in reckoning with racial inequality and state violence, and how individual and collective memory shapes public narratives of past and present injustices. In September 2019, UChicago students, faculty, and members of Chicago Torture Justice Memorials traveled to Alabama to learn more about liberatory memory work and civil rights.