The Center in Aesthetics, Religion, and Contemporary Culture is pleased to invite you to the workshop Mapping Memory, Performing Solastalgia, led by Chirine El Ansary, an artist-researcher in residence at the university with a J&M Villavecchia fellowship.

She is a Cairo- and Lille-based storyteller, performer, and researcher working at the intersection of embodied practice and cultural memory. Her work explores how oral performance can transmit experiences of cultural and spiritual disconnection beyond conventional academic frameworks, transforming them into shared, embodied knowledge.

The workshop will focus on the notion of solastalgia—the sense of loss caused by the transformation and deterioration of one’s environment—and will explore how performance can document, interpret, and become a site of resistance against the disintegration of urban spaces.

Friday, April 17th · 4:00 - 7:00 p.m.
Room 13.003 (Ramon Turró building, ground floor
Open to all – Register

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