

Financed by the European Union
Marie Curie Conferences and Training Courses
http://cordis.europa.eu/mariecurie-actions/
NaMu. Contract number (MSCF-CT-2006 - 046067)
The fourth conference in the series held at Linköping University 18-20 February 2008 took an explicit historical and comparative outlook dealing with some of the main questions of the NaMu program; stressing methodological issues and comparative strategies. Eight thematic sessions were introduced by seminal key-notes giving European; global and methodological feeds to the dialogue over disciplinary and national borders:
- Comparing relationships between different forms of national museums and their related academic disciplines. To what extent were and are they part of institutions of knowledge? Do they present a coherent approach to memory politics? To what extent are there autonomous logics operating in the evolution of cultural; historical; technical; natural and art national museums?
- Comparing the narratives told in and by museums: how do they evolve over time? What “us” and what “others” were constructed with what means? Do they differ between countries structurally?
- Comparing the role of national museums in the overall history of their setting (relating to disciplinary; esthetical; political and economical developments. Are they forming nations; creating hegemony; arguing for change; disrupting order or integrate?
Some answers and the basis for more intelligent questions are to be found in this volume.
Comparing: National Museums; Territories; Nation-Building and Change. NaMu IV; Linköping University; Norrköping; Sweden 18-20 February 2008
Keynotes
030:001
Peter Aronsson
Comparing National Museums: Methodological Reflections
[Abstract and Fulltext]
030:002
Kylie Message
Comparing Cultures of Citizenship and Changing Concepts of Nation and Community in the EU and USA
[Abstract and Fulltext]
Session 1: Comparing narratives
030:003
Viviane Gosselin, David Andersson
Private and Public Memories of Expo 67
[Abstract and Fulltext]
030:004
Gabriela Nicolescu Cristea
On Maps; Abused Virgins and Nations
[Abstract and Fulltext]
030:005
Radostina Sharenkova
Propaganda in the Museum
[Abstract and Fulltext]
030:006
Eva Insulander, Fredrik Lindstrand
Past and Present
[Abstract and Fulltext]
030:007
Rossella Ragazzi
Steps Toward An Analysis of “Sápmi:
[Abstract and Fulltext]
Session 2: Comparing national transfers
030:008
Pelin Gürol
Conflicting Visualities on Display
[Abstract and Fulltext]
Session 3: Defining the national
030:009
Anastasia Sakellariadi
Archaeology and Museums in the Nation Building Process in Greece
[Abstract and Fulltext]
030:010
Alexandra Tranta-Nikoli
Representing “Greek” Prehistory
[Abstract and Fulltext]
030:011
Isabelle Flour
National Museums of Architecture
[Abstract and Fulltext]
Session 4: Comparing objects and contexts
030:012
Mattias Bäckström
Reading the Official and the Unofficial
[Abstract and Fulltext]
030:013
Fredrik Svanberg
Museum Narration and the Collection Machine
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Session 5: Comparing institutional formation
030:014
Aina Aske
The Hidden Narrative of Manor Houses and Their Cultural History in Norwegian Museums
[Abstract and Fulltext]
Session 6: Comparing disciplinary traditions
030:015
Inga Elmqvist Söderlund
The Cabinet of Naturalia of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences at the End of the 18th Century
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030:016
Johannes Siapkas, Lena Sjögren
Appropriations of Antiquity
[Abstract and Fulltext]
Session 7: Comparing for development
030:017
Mavragani Eleni
Comparing Strategic Approaches between National and Private Museums in Athens
[Abstract and Fulltext]
030:018
Shin-Chieh Tzeng
A Tale of Two Nations
[Abstract and Fulltext]
030:019
Margaret Tali
The Processes of Contemporary Museum Constructions
[Abstract and Fulltext]
Session 8: Comparing the Other
030:020
Marzia Varutti
Thinking through the "Other"
[Abstract and Fulltext]
030:021
Cristina Lleras
National Museums and the Legacies of Exclusion. Issues and Challenges Around Change in the 21st Century
[Abstract and Fulltext]
030:022
Iro Katsaridou
Institutionalizing Photography
[Abstract and Fulltext]
030:023
Eva Silvén
Staging the Sámi
[Abstract and Fulltext]