Kirschner Memorial Human Rights Lecture, November 7

This year’s Kirschner Human Rights Lecture, sponsored by the Pozen Center, University of Chicago, will be delivered by Albert Woodfox, on November 7, 2019.  This annual lecture honors the life and work of Robert H. Kirschner, MD, noted forensic pathologist and a founder of the University of Chicago Human Rights Program.

Albert Woodfox is a former political prisoner and human rights advocate who served 43 years in solitary confinement for a crime he didn’t commit. His sentence, served in a 6-by-9-foot cell at Louisiana’s Angola Prison, is the longest solitary confinement ever endured in the United States. After decades of activism and many legal appeals, Woodfox was released from prison in February 2016. He speaks to audiences worldwide about the inhumanity of solitary confinement. Woodfox will discuss his advocacy and new memoir, Solitary: Unbroken by Four Decades in Solitary Confinement. My Story of Transformation and Hope, which was recently named a finalist for the National Book Award.

More information and registration is available here.  Pre-registration is recommended.