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This course draws inspiration from a co-taught seminar entitled, \u201cThe African Archive Beyond Colonization\u201d co-created by\u00a0Dr. Sarah Derbew<\/u><\/a>\u00a0(Assistant Professor of Classics, Stanford University) and\u00a0Dr. Denise L. Lim<\/u><\/a>\u00a0(Assistant Professor of Black Material and Visual Cultures, The New School\u2019s Parsons School of Design) in the fall 2021 quarter at Stanford University.<\/p>

Between May 2021 to August 2022, Dr. Lim was a BIPOC curatorial postdoctoral fellow with the Stanford University Archaeology Collections (SUAC), and was commissioned to research, curate, and teach from SUAC\u2019s African collections, which included over 856 cultural objects from over 10 different African countries. Dr. Lim collaborated with Dr. Derbew to create a course that offered students practical cultural heritage training in research, exhibition design and planning, and curatorship. Co-instruction was a key strength of this course that encompassed a wide range of geographic regions, time periods, and cultures. As no single scholar can be an expert in all these subjects, students benefited from a transdisciplinary, collaborative pedagogy.\u00a0<\/p>

The spring 2025 semester is the inaugural\u00a0year that this course has been offered to M.A. students in the History of Design and Curatorial Studies (HDCS), Anthropology, and Historical studies program at The New School. In 2025, Dr. Lim established a partnership with The Brooklyn Museum\u2019s Associate Curator of the Arts of Africa, Dr. Annissa Malvoisin. In the spring 2026 semester, this course will collaborate with New York University\u2019s (NYU) Africa House to research and curate from their African collections.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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The spring 2025 semester repesents the inaugural offering of this course at The New School\u2019s Parsons School of Design. This website serves as an open-access archive of all student research conducted on select African cultural objects held at either the Brooklyn Museum (2025) or New York University\u2019s (NYU) Africa House (2026). The \u201cStudent Projects\u201d tab will be updated and archived by each year that the course is offered. This course is offered to M.A. students every spring semester at Parsons and will be offered concurrently with Dr. Sarah Derbew\u2019s \u201cAfrican Archive Beyond Colonization\u201d course at Stanford University beginning in the 2025-26 academic year. Each university\u2019s respective course websites are designed to highlight student research and cultural knowledge that recenters the vital importance of African material culture. For further questions about this seminar at The New School\u2019s Parsons School of Design, please feel free to contact Dr. Denise L. Lim (limd@newcshool.edu).<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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