Human rights as last utopia? Migration and jewish history - taz Talk meets the Jewish Museum Berlin https://tube.taz.de/videos/watch/b552278c-6ef2-40a0-a1c5-5b2b2b777f50 To kick off the Jewish Museum Berlin’s new Digital Lecture Series, “Human Rights as the Last Utopia? Migration and Jewish History,” we welcome political philosopher Seyla Benhabib. She will speak with journalist Dinah Riese about the 1951 Geneva Convention on Refugees as a central document of human rights protection. The discussion will focus on dilemmas that have plagued the document since its inception: the exclusion of countries in the Global South, the problematic assumptions underlying the categories of “protected groups,” and the bureaucratic and legal difficulties in proving a “well-founded fear of persecution” for recognition as a refugee. Talk and discussion with: 🐾 Seyla Benhabib was born in Istanbul in 1950 to a Sephardic-Turkish family. She is considered one of the most influential political philosophers and political theorists of our time. Seyla Benhabib is a Senior Research Scholar and Associate Professor of Law at Columbia Law School in New York. In 2025, she was awarded the 2025 Hannah Arendt Prize for Political Thought. 🐾 Dinah Riese heads the domestic affairs desk at taz. Prior to that, she was taz’s editor for migration and integration. She has received multiple awards for her research and reporting on the so-called ban on abortion advertising, Section 219a of the German Criminal Code (StGB). Her interview with survivors of the attack in Halle was nominated for the Reporter Award. The talk is sponsored by the Berthold Leibinger foundation. Event announcement: https://taz.de/!vn6174454 More about the Digital Lecture Series: https://www.jmberlin.de/digital-lecture-series-menschenrechte Further information: https://taz.de/talk Photo credit: Bettina Strauss Do you have any questions on this topic, feedback or comments for us? We look forward to receiving your email: taztalk@taz.de Die taz ist eine unabhängige, genossenschaftlich getragene, überregionale Tageszeitung. Um eine kritische Öffentlichkeit zu ermöglichen, veröffentlichen wir alle Inhalte der gedruckten taz auch kostenlos auf unserer Website. Unser freiwilliges Modell "taz zahl ich" ersetzt die Bezahlschranke. Damit das möglich bleibt, unterstütze jetzt die taz mit einem selbst gewählten Betrag: https://taz.de/zahlich Die taz gibt es digital oder gedruckt auch als Abo - was die taz gleichzeitig am meisten unterstützt und ihre Existenz sichert. Erfahre hier mehr dazu: https://taz.de/abo Die taz in sozialen Netzwerken: https://taz.de/social Hinweis: Die Kommentarfunktion ist derzeit nur während moderierten Livestreams aktiviert, da sie vermehrt für Hate Speech genutzt wurde. Während des Livestreams steht allerdings der Live-Chat für Fragen, Anregungen und Diskussionen zur Verfügung. Vielen Dank für dein Verständnis. #humanrights #migration #taztalk Sat, 01 Aug 2026 10:06:52 GMT https://validator.w3.org/feed/docs/rss2.html PeerTube - https://tube.taz.de Human rights as last utopia? Migration and jewish history - taz Talk meets the Jewish Museum Berlin https://tube.taz.de/lazy-static/avatars/1ecabaa4-a883-4b4d-ab49-9ff8d6964957.jpg https://tube.taz.de/videos/watch/b552278c-6ef2-40a0-a1c5-5b2b2b777f50 All rights reserved, unless otherwise specified in the terms specified at https://tube.taz.de/about and potential licenses granted by each content's rightholder.