The CDHM is inviting artists and researchers in the field of digital humanities to study and reimagine the world of multilateral diplomacy. For the 2025-2026 academic year, CDHM Visiting Fellows curator Caroline Barneaud (théâtre Vidy-Lausanne) and documentary theatre artist Stefan Kaegi (Rimini Protokoll) are leading an artistic residency project with researchers Amanullah Mojadidi and Atwa Jaber on subjective and multilateral approaches to researching the archives of International Geneva that they will complement with personal archives. The CDHM has been a resource in connecting the participants with the archives.
The project culminates with two public performances on 26 May 2026 at the Grand Morillon residency where Amanullah Mojadidi and Atwa Jaber will present their research through mixed media lecture-performances : A Name I Cannot Escape by Amanullah Mojadidi and No Bridge Will Take You Home by Atwa Jaber.
Amanullah Mojadidi, A Name I Cannot Escape
Amanullah Mojadidi is an affiliated PhD researcher with the CDHM, and a doctoral candidate in Anthropology at the Geneva Graduate Institute after having spent over 15 years working as a conceptual artist and in the fields of art and culture as an international development worker. His research and creative practice approach themes such as belonging, the politics of representation, conflict, migration, artifactual history, and the EuroAmerican gaze; often blurring and merging the lines between fact and fiction, documentation and imagination.
In his lecture-performance he explores how a personal, familial relationship might hold space for (and carry the burden of) the political, multilateral relationships that have been built as part of security and nation-building projects in Afghanistan over many decades. It subsequently explores how the complicated, loving, and even conflictual family bond is further reflected in the different ways in which his uncle (the former president and head of parliament Sibghatullah Mujaddedi) and himself address the invasion, occupation, and multilateral intervention of a shared homeland. For in the end, aren’t the complexities we find in multilateralism simply the difficulties we face as humans in our near-existential need to belong and connect?
Duration 50-60 min
Archives : United Nations Digital Archives (United Nations Assistance Mission to Afghanistan - UNAMA, UN Security Council - UNSC, UN Secretary General - UNSG), UN Photo Digital asset Management System Archives, News Articles and Images, Personal Archives, and Memory
Atwa Jaber, No Bridge Will Take You Home
Atwa Jaber is a Postdoctoral Researcher in the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Basel and a Research Associate in the Center for Digital Humanities and Multilateralism at the Geneva Graduate Institute. He was also affiliated with the Institute's Department of International History and Politics, where he obtained his PhD in 2025. His research interests are centered around the histories and geographies of forced displacement, with a focus on oral histories, overlooked visual records, and humanitarian and multilateral archives.
In his lecture-performance “No Bridge Will Take You Home”, Atwa draws from the testimonies of Palestinians who witnessed life, displacement, and return across the Jordan River, narrating their journeys and life histories through a multi-modal form of story telling: centered around a map of the Jordan Valley, Atwa’s performance reconstructs historical events through engaging Palestinians’ oral narratives gathered in Palestine and Jordan, with series of photographs sourced from the archives of organizations that documented Palestinian refugees lived experiences in 1967.
Duration 50-60 min
Archives : United Nations Relief and Work Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA), World Council of Churches (WCC), International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), and the Palestinian Museum Digital Archive
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Caroline Barneaud and Stefan Kaegi joined the CDHM as Fellows in Summer-Autumn 2025. Caroline Barneaud is Director of Artistic and International Projects at Théâtre Vidy-Lausanne, which is dedicated to contemporary creation. She’s interested in artistic projects that interrogate contemporary society, combine disciplines and fields, explore new formats, and expand theatre’s possibilities. Stefan Kaegi is co-founder of the Berlin-based documentary theatre label Rimini Protokoll which creates documentary theatre plays, audio-interventions, curated formats and works in the urban environment in a diverse variety of collaborations using research, public auditions and conceptual processes.