Hidden Research – Performing Researchers' Stories
The theater project Hidden Research performs stories and conflicts about scientific freedom of endangered and exiled scientists worldwide. The performances are based on interviews with researchers and extracted leitmotifs that are dramaturgically constructed in the form of dialogues. Hidden Research brings these theatrical dialogues into the public space and thus creates points of contact between citizens and the anonymous, personal experiences of the scientists. On 5 July, as part of the Academic Freedom Week at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, the performances and dramaturgical texts will be presented to a wider audience for the first time in a confidential atmosphere. The event invites you to talk to participating artists, academics and project managers. The discussions will feed into the further development of the performances.
Hidden research is based on close cooperation between thematically relevant research projects from the humanities, social sciences and theatre studies, structural projects in the field of science management at the BUA, researchers involved as well as performance artists and dramaturges who deal intensively with academic freedom at risk.
The Berlin Center for Global Engagement (BCGE), which is based at the BUA, is coordinating Hidden Research together with the art director Aldo Spahiu and in close scientific collaboration with the project conceptual collaboration - living borderless research interaction (co2libri) at HU Berlin and FU Berlin. The SCRIPTS Cluster of Excellence, the Center for Comparative Research on Democracy (CCRD) at HU Berlin, the BUA Forum on Diplomatic Resilience and the now completed Academics in Solidarity (AiS) project at FU Berlin are also supporting the theatre project.
Hidden Research is funded as part of the BMBF Science Year 2024 on the topic of 'Freedom'.
Participation by invitation only