Silence, memory and empathy in museums and at historic sites.

沉默是我们过去表现方式的重要元素。虽然人们通常认为博物馆和历史遗址的沉默是理所当然的，但它们的运作过程却没有那么明确地概念化。该网络将区分“沉默”和“保持沉默”，以便研究教育官员在博物馆和历史遗址中传播和教授被认为具有挑战性或“困难”的历史的方式。作为这种教学的一部分，博物馆和历史遗址现在经常使用移情策略来面对困难的过去。该网络将利用关于同理心和可及性问题的大量工作，以询问在一般学习成果中识别同理心的方式。该网络将汇集学者、早期职业研究人员、博士生、策展人和教育工作者，以真正的跨学科方式开展工作。网络内的专业知识的多样性将有助于重点放在不同的文化概念的沉默和同情，以及这种理解是（或不是）的一部分，占主导地位的理解的记忆。学者和从业者的合作将促进对沉默，同情和记忆如何在博物馆和历史遗址中相互作用的理解。研究结果将对博物馆和遗产地的专业人员、政策制定者和教育工作者具有重要意义。该网络将分别在伯明翰大学、城市大学、伦敦历史悠久的皇家宫殿大厦和巴克法斯特修道院举办三个讲习班和一个会议。这些会议的结构将促进各领域的对话、合作和进展。该网络将在整个运作期间维持一个网站和博客，以加强思想交流，汇报讲习班的情况，在最初项目结束后保持动力，并吸引更广泛的成员群体的兴趣。指导小组还将通过网站、博客、教育工作者培训日、会议文件、共同撰写的文章和期刊特刊传播成果。

Silences are significant elements of the ways our pasts are represented. While it is often taken for granted that there are silences at museums and historic sites, the processes by which they operate have been less explicitly conceptualised. This network will make a distinction between 'being silenced' and 'being silent' in order to look at the ways in which histories perceived as challenging or 'difficult' are conveyed and taught by education officers in museums and at historic sites. As part of such teaching, museums and historic sites now frequently employ strategies of empathy to confront difficult pasts. The network will draw on the body of work about empathy and issues of accessibility in order to interrogate the ways in which empathy is being identified in the generic learning outcomes.The network will bring together academics, early career researchers, doctoral students, curators, and educators to work in a genuinely interdisciplinary way. The diversity of expertise within the network will facilitate a focus on different cultural conceptions of silence and empathy and the way that such understandings are (or are not) part of dominant understandings of memory. The collaboration of academics and practitioners will promote an understanding of how silence, empathy and memory interact in museums and at historic sites. The findings will be of significance for museum and heritage site professionals, policy makers and educators across the sectors. The network will run three workshops and one conference at the University of Birmingham, City University, the Historic Royal Palaces Tower of London, and Buckfast Abbey respectively. These meetings will be structured to promote dialogue, collaboration and progression of the fields. The network will maintain a website and blog throughout its duration to strengthen the exchange of ideas, report back on the workshops, maintain the impetus beyond the life of the initial project, and attract interest more widely from the constituencies of the members. The steering group will also disseminate the results via a website, blog, training day for educators, conference papers, co-authored articles, and special issue of a journal.