Centre leadership has been working closely with curator and international policy specialist Hannah Entwisle Chapuisat, who produced a 2025 CDHM-commissioned report on expanding a visiting artist-researcher programme. In October, the Centre published a piece in Global Challenges, entitled “Why Art? Exploring the Role of ‘Art and Social Science’ Approaches to the Interdisciplinary Study of Multilateralism”.
For the 2025-2026 academic year, CDHM Visiting Fellows dramaturge Caroline Barneaud and documentary theatre artist Stefan Kaegi are leading an artistic residency project with (post)doctoral researchers Amanullah Mojadidi and Atwa Jaber on subjective and multilateral approaches to researching the archives of International Geneva that they complement with personal archives. The project culminated with the public performance, Performing Biographies of Multilateralism, and the CDHM has plans to continue its work with Barneaud and Kaegi in the coming year.
The CDHM welcomed award-winning filmmaker Jean-Stéphane Bron as a Visiting Fellow for 2025-2026. Exploring both fictional works and documentary film, Bron is working with the CDHM and partnered IOs to explore a fictional project rooted in the archives of International Geneva.
In August, the CDHM partnering with the Embassy of Foreign Artists' (EoFA) Art & Stories programme launched a call inviting artists from all disciplines to develop a research project based on the archives of international organisations in Geneva. This artist residency is slated to begin in Spring 2027.
By engaging with novelists, poets, filmmakers and performers, the CDHM’s founders hope to forge relationships that go beyond established academic disciplines, and to raise new resources from donors to deepen the creative dialogue necessary to reinvent the multilateralism of the future.
