A Woman is a School: Céline Semaan in conversation with Dr. Sha'Mira Covington

Name: A Woman is a School: Céline Semaan in conversation with Dr. Sha'Mira Covington
Start: 2024-10-30T19:30:00-04:00
Location: 184 S. Candler St. , Decatur, GA, United States, Georgia 30030

Schedule

Wed Oct 30 2024 at 07:30 pm

UTC-04:00

Location

184 S. Candler St. , Decatur, GA, United States, Georgia 30030 | Decatur, GA

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Charis welcomes Céline Semaan in conversation with Dr. Sha'Mira Covington for a discussion of A Woman is a School, a memoir and cultural anthropological book by the founder of Slow Factory.
Order the book here: https://www.charisbooksandmore.com/book/9798218437077
As a war-survivor and child refugee sharing endangered and discredited ancestral knowledge of the Global South, particularly tales from Lebanon from 1948 to 2023-the book follows the tradition of the hakawati, the storytellers of the Levant. Holding Indigenous knowledge and wisdom, Céline Semaan, a hakawati herself, documents what she has witnessed throughout her life and the lives of her family members, sharing her upbringing and cultures of resistance.
Céline Semaan is a Lebanese-Canadian designer, writer, artist, speaker, and advocate working at the intersection of environmental and social justice. Céline is the founder of Slow Factory, a 501c3 public service organization addressing the intersecting crises of climate justice and social inequity — filling the gap for climate adaptation and preparedness, building community power through open education, narrative change and regenerative design. As a part of this work, Slow Factory produces a conference series promoting sustainability literacy called Study Hall, the first science-driven incubator in fashion called One X One, and a range of other offerings.
Sha'Mira Covington, Ph.D., is a scholar-artist and Assistant Professor in Fashion at the University of Georgia. She was raised by a Southern U.S. family between New Jersey and New York, but considers the South home. A first-generation college student from a poor, working-class background, with a decade of experience working within the fashion-industrial complex, her expertise includes Africana studies and sustainability within the fashion-industrial complex. Her research explores the cultural, historical, social and political significance of fashion and dress within the contexts of colonial dominance, anti-colonial resistance and processes of decolonization.
Céline writes for New York Mag: The Cut, Elle, Refinery29, Huffington Post, among other publications. Her work has been featured in the New York Times, CNN Vogue, Refinery29, Scientific American, Fast Company, Teen Vogue and many other outlets. Her first book, A Woman is a School launches this September.
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