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Catharina Nolin

Department of Culture and Aesthetics, Stockholm University
Participates in 1 Session
Associate Professor in Art History, specialised in the history of gardens and designed landscapes; Director for a master’s programme in Critical Heritage Studies. International Conferences 2015: ”Framing Children’s Sections in Cemeteries”, Heritage of Death. Stockholm University; “On the Swedishness of Swedish Landscape Architecture – different ways of approaching the history of the mid-20th century landscape architecture”, Nordik XI, Reykjavik. 2014: “Playground equipment – an undervalued cultural heritage worth discussing?”, ACHS, Canberra, Australia; "Urban parks in an extended professional and cultural context 1930–1970”, EAUH, Lisbon. 2012: "Gender and class issues in relation to urban space and green areas in Sweden c. 1940– 1970", EAUH, Prag; “Women landscape architects, cultural heritage and recognition”, ACHS, Gothenburg"; Towards a Critical Architectural History: Architecture, History, and Theory?”, Nordik X, Stockholm (session leader). 2008:"Urban parks in Sweden at the turn of the twentieth century: the search for national identity and for the conservation of nature", UVA, Charlottesville, USA. Main publications: "From Gardening Manuals to Signum's Swedish Art History. Approaches to the Historiography of Swedish Landscape Archiecture", Konsthistorisk Tidskrift/Journal of Art History, Volume 85, No 1, 2016.  ”International training and national ambitions: female landscape architects in Sweden, 1900–1950”, Women, Modernity and Landscape Architecture 2015. ”I museets dolda vrår – om kvinnliga landskapsarkitekter betraktade genom Arkitektur- och designcentrums samlingar”, Forskning i centrum 2014. ”Begravningsplatsen – ¬¬¬en del av vårt kyrkliga kulturarv?”¬, De kyrkliga kulturarven 2014. "Urban parks in Sweden at the turn of the Twentieth Century: the search for National identity and for the conservation of nature", Public Nature: Scenery, History, and Park Design 2013. ”Ulla Bodorff, landskapet och industrin”, Berättelser från markerna 2013. "Ester Claesson und die deutsch-schwedischen Beziehungen am Anfang des zwanzigsten Jahrhunderts", Die Gartenkunst 2009. En svensk lustgårdskonst. Lars Israel Wahlman som trädgårdsarkitekt 2008. "Stockholm's urban parks: meeting places and social contexts in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries", The European City and Green Space 2006. Till stadsbornas nytta och förlustande. Den offentliga parken i Sverige under 1800-talet 1999 (diss.).

Sessions in which Catharina Nolin participates

Monday 6 June, 2016

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Sessions in which Catharina Nolin attends

Saturday 4 June, 2016

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9:00
9:00 - 10:00 | 1 hour
Public event
Simultaneous translation - Traduction simultanée

What if we changed our views on heritage? And if heritage has already changed? While, on the global scene, states maintain their leading role in the mobilization of social and territorial histories, on the local scale, regions, neighbourhoods and parishes have changed. Citizens and communities too: they latch on to heritage to express an unprecedented range of belongings that no law seems to be able to take measures to contain, often to the discontent of...

18:30
18:30 - 20:00 | 1 hour 30 minutes
Public event
Simultaneous translation - Traduction simultanée

Most of what we experience as heritage emerges into conscious recognition through a complex mixture of political and ideological filters, including nationalism.  In these processes, through a variety of devices (museums, scholarly research, consumer reproduction, etc.), dualistic classifications articulate a powerful hierarchy of value and significance.  In particular, the tangible-intangible pair, given legitimacy by such international bodies as UNESCO, reproduces a selective ordering of cul...