Facing the future. Inventing a temporal historiography. Dealing with an uncertain past in order to work in an uncertain future

“未来是确定的。只有过去是不可预测的。“苏联涂鸦20世纪80年代。传统上，过去是固定的，未来是可变的。但这些常识性的态度受到苏联涂鸦所总结的有趣问题的影响。在治疗中，过去被改变（我们的理解被改变），这可以改变现在和未来的痛苦。档案馆和博物馆如何允许未来对过去的这种重新配置？该项目研讨会将探讨背景和殖民和后殖民历史上有争议的事件的潜在理解，从喀麦隆的Bamileke起义开始，然后考虑这个案例对英国和欧洲其他人的相关性。将要讨论的主题与博物馆以外的各种不同职业相关，因此可能产生影响：档案管理员和博物馆馆长从事收藏品的工作，这些收藏品是有争议的，并且受到高度可变的阅读/解释，这些阅读/解释本身也是有争议的。

"The future is certain. Only the past is unpredictable." USSR graffiti 1980s.Conventionally the past is fixed and the future changeable. But these commonsense attitudes are subject to interesting questions which the Soviet graffiti summarises. Contentiously in therapy the past is changed (our understanding is changed) and this can change present and future affliction. How can archives and museums allow for such future reconfigurations of the past?The project workshops will explore the background and potential understanding of controversial episodes in colonial and post-colonial history, starting with the Bamileke uprising in Cameroon but then considering the relevance of this case for others in UK and Europe. The topics to be discussed have relevance to and hence potential impacts on a variety of different professions outside academe: archivists and museum curators working on collections which are/were controversial and are subject to highly variable readings/ interpretations which are themselves controversial.