To The Righthouse

Podcast Series

Much as a Lighthouse warns of dangers and guides travellers towards safety, our Righthouse alerts to risks for human rights and points towards secure protection. Like the Lighthouse of literary fame, our Righthouse symbolises the difference between what is desirable and what is real, with multiple points of views in between, the longing for something both enlightening and difficult to reach: a destination, stability, a solution.

Series 4

Sounds of Justice

The fourth series of our Podcast, Sounds of Justice, explores how music has voiced and powered human rights struggles around the world, from the US civil rights movement to Uyghur resistance against erasure. Hosted by Ignacio Saiz and taking inspiration from The Routledge Companion to Music and Human Rights, it brings together artists, academics and human rights practitioners to share music and insights that open up new ways of listening, connecting and mobilizing for human rights.

Ignacio Saiz, Julian Fifer, Angela Impey, Manfred Nowak, George Ulrich, Shana Redmond, Rasika Ajotikar, Christina Hazboun, Rachel Harris, Mansoor Adayfi, Cèsar Rodriguez Garavito, Rebecca Dirksen.

Series 3

Reimagining Politics Through Human Rights

Reimagining Politics Through Human Rights is the third series in the Global Campus “To the Righthouse” podcast programme. By questioning current political systems and challenging deep-rooted inequalities, we want to help envision a future that embraces diversity, protects human dignity and empowers human beings and communities. We want to unleash imaginative, engaging and powerful ideas that can transform both individuals and systems.

Graham Finlay, George Ulrich, Mary Robinson, Alexandra Xanthaki, Morten Kjaerum, Debbie Kohner, Karim Bitar, Gauri Van Gulik, Anja Mihr.

Series 2

Hope-based Human Rights

Hope-based Human Rights is the second series in the Global Campus “To the Righthouse” podcast programme. This time we want to move away from ‘crisis narratives’ or human rights discourses focussed on denouncing the wrongs and instead try and argue that discourses based on hope, empathy and solidarity are more effective frames to talk about human rights. Here’s to a new narrative focused on solutions, visualising the goal rather than highlighting the obstacles.

Graham Finlay, Thomas Coombes, Marina Shupac, Andrew Leon Hanna, Mary Lawlor, George Ulrich.

Series 1

Engaging with human rights scepticism

A variety of reasons underpin scepticism vs human rights: from ontological questions about the very notion of rights, to culture and religion-based perceptions of rights as an illegitimate source of external interference; from concerns about pragmatic application, to doubts about the political neutrality of Human Rights. Why, then, is it important to engage with different expressions of scepticism? Explore thought-provoking answers with Engaging with human rights scepticism, the first series in the Global Campus “To the Righthouse” podcast programme.

George Ulrich, Lotte Leicht, Guy Haarscher, Nandini Ramanujam, Jerald Joseph, Koen De Feyter, Paul Gready, Samuel Moyn, Manfred Nowak, Costas Douzinas.