To the Righthouse
Episodes
S.4.5-More-than-human rights: the music of nature and the nature of music
18 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Sounds of Justice, the fourth series in the Global Campus “To the Righthouse” podcast programme, explores the deep and often surprising connecti...
s.4.4-Instruments of abuse: weaponizing music in human rights violations
18 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Sounds of Justice, the fourth series in the Global Campus “To the Righthouse” podcast programme, explores the deep and often surprising connecti...
S.4.3-Soundscapes of resilience in India and Palestine
18 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Sounds of Justice, the fourth series in the Global Campus “To the Righthouse” podcast programme, explores the deep and often surprising connecti...
S.4.2- Music and liberation politics in the African diaspora
18 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Sounds of Justice, the fourth series in the Global Campus “To the Righthouse” podcast programme, explores the deep and often surprising connecti...
S.4.1 -Music and human rights: amplifying the resonances
18 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Sounds of Justice, the fourth series in the Global Campus “To the Righthouse” podcast programme, explores the deep and often surprising connecti...
S4.1 - Music and human rights: amplifying the resonances
11 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
The first episode teases out the different dimensions of the relationship between music and human rights. The four guests, all co-editors of the Rou...
S3.8 - Reimagining governance
29 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Politics and human rights or politics through human rights? We conclude this series with a conversation with Anja Mihr* focusing on the difference bet...
S3.7 - Reimagining actors
22 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
On the relevance of meaningful participation of stakeholders in politics One way to reimagine politics is to go through re-imagining the actual involv...
S3.6 - Reimaging power
15 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
About the interplay between geopolitics and human rights Current geopolitical tensions play a very relevant role in politics, but what is the role of ...
S3.5 - Reimagining influence
08 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
How can National Human Rights Institutions (NHRI) impact on politics? We continue the series with a conversation about spheres of influence in politic...
S3.4 - Reimagining spaces
01 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The importance of making room for rights-based politics In this episode, recorded during the FRA FORUM in Vienna, we focus on practicing human rights-...
S3.3 - Reimagining values
24 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
What about culture as politics? Our guest in this episode is Alexandra Xanthaki*, UN Special Rapporteur on Cultural Rights. Based on her work and a se...
S3.2 - Reimagining leadership
17 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
On why leadership needs a long-term and rights-based view One cannot talk about politics without discussing the characteristics of leadership. We aske...
S3.1 - Reimagining politics through human rights
10 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Introducing the theme of the series Our co-hosts Graham Finlay and George Ulrich engage in a conversation that looks at why this is the time to re-ima...
S2.5 - To hope for the future
03 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
A picture of the world we want to see In conversation with Thomas Coombes We conclude the series with a conversation about embracing hope. As a fina...
S2.4 - To hope for the broken
26 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The importance of hopefulness in creating justice In conversation with Marina Shupac In this episode, we focus on practicing hope and on good examples...
S2.3 - To hope for the human
19 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The power of telling a human story In conversation with Andrew Leon Hanna We want to continue our journey to better understand what it means to hope ...
S2.2 - To hope for the better
12 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The need to stress achievements (big and small) In conversation with Mary Lawlor In the face of the current backlash against human rights, we want t...
S2.1 - To hope or not to hope?
05 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The importance of positive human rights narratives In conversation with George Ulrich In the first GC Podcast Series, we widely explained why talking ...
S1.5 - Unicorns, utopia and mockery
04 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Are human rights real? How do they exist? Ontological scepticism questions the very being of universal human rights. In its most explicit form, it ass...
S1.4 - Rhetoric, Rupture and Rights
28 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Are human rights politically neutral? Does proliferation of human rights water down the very concept? Expressions of political scepticism about human ...
S1.3 - Negotiating tensions
21 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Are human rights an unrealistic luxury? Pragmatically-oriented expressions of human rights scepticism do not take issue with the concept of human righ...
S1.2 - In small places close to home
14 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Whose values? Whose experience? Are human rights inclusive? Value-based objections to human rights are commonly stated with reference to culture and/o...
S1.1 - Clearly unclear
06 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Human Rights under pressure: when, why and how to engage with sceptics? In the current era of rising illiberalism and backlash against hard won human...