Academic Scenes is a team-building activity: collect stories from academia, discuss them together and turn them into theater scenes.

This idea became reality during a special semester at the Fields Institute in Spring 2024, and resulted in a play on academic dystopia, called Mathopoly. 

The idea of academic scenes was originally of Annette Karrer. The final script of Mathopoly is joint work of Annette Karrer, Christian Gorski, Giulio Tiozzo and Indira Chatterji, who also drew the pictures.

If you like, you can contribute your scene!

NEWS:

• Mathopoly is under contract with MIT Press. If you'd like to get updated as soon as the book is available, you can preorder the book. 

• Mathopoly will be performed at the Joint Math Meetings 2026 (please consider donating to help us pay for the audio equipment):  

see you on January 4th, 2026 at 7:30 pm at the Marriott Marquis Hotel in Washington, DC !