Museums of Europe:Tangles of memory, borders, and race

In this article I investigate the making of two new museums of Europe—Marseille's Museum of the Civilizations of Europe and the Mediterranean and Berlin's Museum of European Cultures—by focusing on the kinds of “Europe” envisioned in their exhibitions. I argue that museums represent an important site where the geopolitical imaginary of a bounded, culturalized Europe is produced, even if by default. I explore how these older national folklore collections were strategically rebranded as museums of Europe to give a second life to their nearly obsolete displays. National projects and geopolitics play a key role in such memorial Europeanization. These insights challenge taken‐for‐granted understandings of scale in memory studies and offer a more nuanced understanding of how Europeanization is playing out within cultural institutions. Amid multiple European crises, “Europe” is increasingly imagined as a diverse but essentially united cultural space—however fuzzy and contested its cultural content may be—while this spatial imaginary is racialized in subtle ways

Molecular Fe, CO and Ni carbide carbonyl clusters and Nanoclusters†

The present minireview highlights the work of our group on Fe, Co and Ni carbide carbonyl clusters and nanoclusters, placing it in the context of the recent literature. After a brief introduction, Section 2 gives a short summary on the general features of molecular carbide carbonyl clusters. Then, specific examples of Fe, Co and Ni carbide carbonyl clusters are presented in the following three Sections. Each Section includes both homometallic and heterometallic clusters, as well as discussion of some of their most relevant chemical, electrochemical, structural and physical properties. General conclusions are outlined in Section 6