A conversation with Elina Pirjatanniemi and Manfred Nowak

9th October 2026

We are delighted to bring you today our first podcast on the Talking Rights blog. As part of celebrating Professor Pirjatanniemi’s career, we had the pleasure of sitting (virtually) with her and prominent human rights scholar and practitioner, Professor Manfred Nowak, to discuss a range of themes, including the role of scholars in challenging times, environmental challenges and human rights education.

You can listen to it below.

About the Authors

Elina Pirjatanniemi

Elina Pirjatanniemi works as a Professor of Constitutional and International Law as well as a Director of the Institute for Human Rights at Åbo Akademi.
Manfred Nowak

Manfred Nowak is Professor of International Law and Human Rights in Vienna and Secretary General of the Global Campus of Human Rights in Venice (since 2016). He has acted in various expert functions for the UN, EU and other organisations, including as UN Special Rapporteur on Torture (2004-10) and Independent Expert leading the UN Global Study on Children Deprived of Liberty (2016-19).
Michel Rouleau-Dick

Dr Michel Rouleau-Dick is Co-Editor-in-Chief and co-founder of the Talking Rights Blog. He is currently a postdoctoral fellow and Arctic Six fellow at the Centre for Transdisciplinary AI (TAIGA) at Umeå University (Sweden), affiliated with the Department of Law, UmArts and the School of Architecture.