On April 24th we're hosting UN Special Rapporteur Balakrishnan Rajagopal to discuss the current crisis of academic freedom and campus expression--and how international human rights law can help.

https://humanrights.uchicago.edu/events/academic-freedom-brink-reflections-human-rights-perspective

On April 15, we're hosting a talk by the renowned South African freedom fighter, lawyer, and judge Albie Sachs, who will discuss the concept of judicial independence.

https://humanrights.uchicago.edu/events/you-cant-do-mr-president-how-south-africas-highest-court-held-president-mandela-and-his

Is the US approach to academic freedom up to the job of protecting free inquiry?

Can the international human rights tradition help us understand (and defend) academic freedom differently?

A Pozen Center report explores these questions and more.

#HumanRights #RightToEducation #AcademicFreedom

Amid national threats to civil rights, Illinois is doubling down on our commitment to protect all Illinoisans, ensuring our state is a place of welcome and opportunity.

To file a complaint, call (877) 236-7703 or 7-1-1 for *TTY users or visit dhr.illinois.gov/filing-a-charge.

We're excited to host Shanelle Matthews, former communications director for the Movement for Black Lives, for an interactive lunch Thurs, Feb 27. Matthews will discuss the concept of "narrative power," and how social movements can leverage storytelling in the fight for change. Learn more + register:

Yesterday, the Pozen Center released "What Kind of Freedom Is Academic Freedom? Emerging Human Rights Perspectives," a report on new ways that human rights scholars and practitioners are thinking about academic freedom.

Learn more and read the report: humanrights.uchicago.edu/news/2025/2/...

Meet this year's Pozen Graduate Lecturers, doctoral candidates from across UChicago who we're supporting as they develop and teach courses that connect their expertise to human rights discourse.

humanrights.uchicago.edu/news/2025/2/...

Since we're brand-new to Bluesy, please help us out by boosting this, ensuring that it reaches more people thinking about how to defend academic spaces. #HumanRights #AcademicFreedom

We are launching a new series, "Pozen Center Reports," designed to draw attention to timely discourse among human rights scholars and practitioners. The first report will be on the pressing subject of academic freedom. Sign up for our email list to get the report as soon as it's out: bit.ly/3CXL8yB

Tomorrow @ 4 p.m.! Whet your appetite by reading:

-the New Yorker rave about Abrahamian's book: www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

-her recent New York Times business story about a businessman fleeing fraud charges in the vast "offshore world." www.nytimes.com/2025/01/07/b...

Our new Faculty Director, Kaushik Sunder Rajan, is an anthropologist studying the interplay of science, law, politics, and health. Read about his view on human rights and vision for the Pozen Center:

https://humanrights.uchicago.edu/news/2024/9/meet-our-new-faculty-director-kaushik-sunder-rajan

We're excited to host Atossa Araxia Abrahamian at Seminary Co-op Books next week for a discussion of THE HIDDEN GLOBE, exploring the spread of extraterritorial "zones" of exception to national laws.

https://humanrights.uchicago.edu/news/2025/1/atossa-araxia-abrahamian-give-tour-hidden-globe

Join us Friday for presentations by 2024 Human Rights Interns about their fieldwork experiences. 2025 interns: this is a way to start thinking about next summer. Come as your schedule allows.

Browse panels + register: https://humanrights.uchicago.edu/events/human-rights-internship-symposium

Read a new profile of Pozen faculty board member Renslow Sherer, who treated Chicago's first AIDS patients, co-founded the city's first AIDS clinic, and today passes the importance of the human rights lens to a new generation of UChicago students.

humanrights.uchicago.edu/news/2025/1/...