Commissioning, production, content and audience reception of bicentenary events commemorating the abolition of the slave trade in the UK, 1807-2007

纪念英国废除奴隶贸易二百周年活动的委托、制作、内容和观众接待，1807 年至 2007 年

• 批准号: AH/E007023/1
• 负责人: Laurajane Smith
• 金额: $ 41.52万
• 依托单位: University of York
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Fellowship
• 财政年份: 2007
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2007 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=AH%2FE007023%2F1
• 关键词: Commissioning; production; content; audience; reception

The bicentenary of the abolition of the transatlantic slave trade is a unique opportunity to fund a research project that critically evaluates the phenomena of commemorating the slave trade and the production and content of events across a wide variety of creative industries and heritage sites in the UK throughout 2007/08. In addition, the project builds theoretical methods for understanding institutional commemorations that will both inform academic understanding of commemoration as an act and process, and will matter to those in the public sphere who commission and produce commemorative events. The project will develop existing methods of capturing audience receptions of problematic pasts, in the context of new critical methodologies developed by the PI, and will share these with the partner museums.Of the 5 partner museums, 3 are creating new permanent galleries, most significantly the 2nd floor of the NMM into an Atlantic World Gallery and an Indian World Gallery; the 3rd floor reorientation of the BECM called 'Breaking the Chains'; and the annex for the NML called The International Slavery Museum. These reorientations of national museums are groundbreaking because until recently the subject of slavery has been largely absent. Now in 2007, not only will the exhibitions acknowledge the fact of slavery but national museums will put the transatlantic slave trade centre stage. Museums want to participate in discussions via IPUP about how to display problematic and uncomfortable content about the experience of slavery.Significantly therefore, the AHRC KT research project and the website at www.history.ac.uk/abolitionofslavetrade will provide a forum for discussions between academics and practitioners, and also develop existing methods for capturing audience receptions of problematic pasts and share these methods with the partner museums. The audience reception phase of the project will produce research data on identity issues relating to race and multiculturalism. This research will be shared not only with the partner museums but also with policy advisors in DCMS and DCLG. Although the Department of Education has not yet confirmed the timetable for when the transatlantic slave trade will become a compulsory part of the National Curriculum for History, understanding slavery and abolition is already informing teaching and learning on Citizenship.The collection of data and the development of intellectual ideas will inform both the academic and also the public discussion about problematic pasts and contemporary Britain. This research project therefore represents part of a longer-term strategy for IPUP, which will organize a conference of international scholars (joint with the GLC, Yale) for September 2008 to reflect on the problem of slavery in the western thought tradition, and commission the publication of a volume of scholarly articles after the completion of the AHRC KT project. This will fit with the IPUP launch events for 2007/08 which consist of a series of international conferences and events (organized in collaboration with the IHR) on 'The Past and the Future of Britishness'. This IPUP research project on the commemoration of the abolition of the slave trade will be complemented by the Bicentenary events organized for 2007 at the University of York which will consist of a series of public lectures on Slavery from 6 February; a summer school for Adult Learners, 2-6 July, Centre for Lifelong Learning, 'Fighting Slavery: Past, Present, and Future 1807-2007'; and an International Conference, 12-14 April, 'Abolitions. 1807-2007: Ending the Slave Trade in the Transatlantic World'. Speakers include novelist Caryl Phillips and leading academics Simon Schama, Philip Morgan, David Murray, David Attwell, Jim Walvin, Henrice Altink, Marcus Wood, Vincent Carretta, Trevor Phillips, Kwabena Adurang-Parry, Adiele Afgibo. All are participating in the website discussions.

废除跨大西洋贩卖奴隶二百周年是一个独特的机会，可以资助一个研究项目，对2007/2008年期间纪念贩卖奴隶的现象以及联合王国各种创意产业和遗产地的活动的制作和内容进行批判性评价。此外，该项目还建立了理解机构纪念活动的理论方法，这些方法将使学术界了解纪念活动作为一种行为和过程，并将对公共领域委托和制作纪念活动的人产生影响。该项目将在PI开发的新的批评方法的背景下，开发现有的方法，以捕捉观众对有问题的过去的接受，并将与伙伴博物馆分享这些方法，在5个伙伴博物馆中，3个正在创建新的永久画廊，最重要的是将NMM的二楼变成大西洋世界画廊和印第安世界画廊; BECM的第三层重新定位称为“打破锁链”;以及NML的附件称为国际奴隶制博物馆。这些国家博物馆的重新定位是开创性的，因为直到最近，奴隶制的主题基本上还没有出现。现在，在2007年，不仅展览会将承认奴隶制的事实，而且国家博物馆将把跨大西洋贩卖奴隶作为中心舞台。博物馆希望通过IPUP参与讨论如何展示有关奴隶制经历的有问题和令人不快的内容，因此，重要的是，AHRC KT研究项目和网站www.history.ac.uk/abolitionofslavetrade将为学者和从业人员之间的讨论提供一个论坛，并开发现有的方法，以捕捉观众对有问题的过去的接受，并与合作博物馆分享这些方法。该项目的受众接待阶段将产生与种族和多元文化有关的身份问题的研究数据。这项研究不仅将与合作博物馆分享，还将与DCMS和DCLG的政策顾问分享。虽然教育部尚未确定跨大西洋贩卖奴隶何时成为国家历史课程的必修部分的时间表，但了解奴隶制和废除奴隶制已经为公民身份的教学提供了信息，数据的收集和知识思想的发展将为学术界和公众关于有问题的过去和当代英国的讨论提供信息。因此，这一研究项目是IPUP长期战略的一部分，IPUP将于2008年9月组织一次国际学者会议（与GLC、耶鲁大学联合），反思西方思想传统中的奴隶制问题，并在AHRC KT项目完成后委托出版一卷学术文章。这将与2007/08年IPUP启动活动相吻合，其中包括一系列关于“英国的过去和未来”的国际会议和活动（与《国际卫生条例》合作组织）。2007年在约克大学举办的二百周年纪念活动将对国际和平研究所纪念废除奴隶贸易的研究项目起到补充作用，这些活动包括：从2月6日起举办一系列关于奴隶制问题的公开讲座; 7月2日至6日在终身学习中心举办成人暑期学校，题为“打击奴隶制：过去、现在和未来，1807- 2007年”;以及4月12日至14日举行的国际会议，1807-2007：结束跨大西洋世界的奴隶贸易。演讲者包括小说家卡里尔菲利普斯和著名学者西蒙沙马，菲利普摩根，大卫默里，大卫阿特韦尔，吉姆沃尔文，亨里斯阿尔廷克，马库斯伍德，文森特卡雷塔，特雷弗菲利普斯，夸贝纳阿杜朗帕里，阿迪勒阿夫吉博。所有人都参与了网站讨论。