Held at the Grande salle polyvalente of the Grand Morillon Residence and organised in collaboration with the department of Anthropology and Sociology, the event marked the culmination of an artistic residency led by curator Caroline Barneaud (Théâtre Vidy‑Lausanne) and documentary theatre artist Stefan Kaegi (Rimini Protokoll). Over the 2025–2026 academic year, they worked with Amanullah Mojadidi (CDHM-affiliated PhD researcher, Geneva Graduate Institute) and Atwa Jaber (Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Basel; Research Associate, CDHM) to examine and reinterpret archives from International Geneva through subjective, multimodal approaches.

In A Name I Cannot Escape, Mojadidi reflected on the intersections between family history, Afghan political trajectories, and multilateral interventions, drawing on UN and personal archives. Jaber’s No Bridge Will Take You Home reconstructed testimonies of Palestinians navigating displacement and return across the Jordan River, combining oral histories with archival photographs from UNRWA, the ICRC, and other institutions. Together, the performances highlighted how lived experience and memory can illuminate the complexities of multilateral governance.

The CDHM will integrate insights from this residency into its upcoming research and public programming, with further events scheduled for the autumn semester.