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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

Time Zone: (GMT-05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada)
9:00
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Paper

Catharina Nolin, Department of Culture and Aesthetics, Stockholm University (Participant)

Frequently used buzzwords in today’s urban environment and planning discourse are “green cities,” sustainability, and densification, often meani...

Sessions in which Catharina Nolin attends

Saturday 4 June, 2016

Time Zone: (GMT-05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada)
9:00
9:00
Keynote : What does heritage change? Le patrimoine, ça change quoi? (Lucie K. Morisset)
1 hour, 9:00 - 10:00
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UQAM, pavillon Judith-Jasmin (J) - Salle Alfred-Laliberté

Keynote with simultaneous translation / Conférence avec traduction simultanée

Lucie Morisset, Canada Research Chair in Urban Heritage (Moderator)

What if we changed our views on heritage? And if heritage has already changed? While, on the global scene, s...
18:30
18:30
Keynote: Is Tangible to Intangible as Formal is to Informal ? (Michael Herzfeld)
1 hour 30 minutes, 18:30 - 20:00
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UQAM, pavillon Judith-Jasmin (J) - Salle Alfred-Laliberté

Keynote with simultaneous translation / Conférence avec traduction simultanée

Prof. Michael Herzfeld, Harvard University (Participant)

Prof. Laurajane Smith, Australian National University (Moderator)

Most of what we experience as heritage emerges into conscious recognition through a complex mixture of political and ideological filters, including...