News posted under Human Rights Lab

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.

The 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.

Last Fall, the Pozen Center launched the Human Rights Lab, a new initiative under the leadership of Alice Kim, Director of Human Rights Practice. The Lab actively engages students and community in human rights work addressing racialized policing and mass incarceration.

Director of Human Rights Practice Alice Kim is coeditor of and contributor to a new book illustrating the devastation caused by an unjust prison system. Kim is the inaugural director of the new Human Rights Lab, a project of the Pozen Center, that is engaging students and community in human rights work addressing mass incarceration and racialized policing.

The Pozen Center is thrilled to announce the Autumn 2018 launch of the Human Rights Lab, which seeks to advance critical new questions around human rights theory and practice through the lens of deep research, experiential learning, and critical community building.