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

废除跨大西洋贩卖奴隶二百周年是资助一个研究项目的独特机会，该项目对2007/08年期间英国各种创意产业和遗产地的奴隶贸易纪念现象以及活动的制作和内容进行了批判性的评估。此外，该项目建立了理解机构纪念活动的理论方法，这些方法将有助于学术上对纪念活动作为一种行为和过程的理解，并将对那些在公共领域委托和制作纪念活动的人产生影响。该项目将在国际博物馆协会开发的新的批评方法的背景下，开发现有的捕捉有问题的过去的观众接受情况的方法，并将与合作伙伴博物馆分享这些方法。在5个合作伙伴博物馆中，有3个正在创建新的永久美术馆，最重要的是将NMM的2楼变成一个大西洋世界美术馆和一个印度世界美术馆；BECM的3楼重新定位为‘打破锁链’；NML的附楼称为国际奴隶制博物馆。这些对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，不仅展览将承认奴隶制的事实，而且国家博物馆将把跨大西洋奴隶贸易放在中心舞台上。博物馆希望通过IPUP参与讨论如何展示关于奴隶制经历的有问题和令人不快的内容。因此，AHRC KT研究项目和网站www.History y.ac.uk/abolitionof Slavetrade将为学者和从业者之间的讨论提供一个论坛，并开发现有方法来捕捉观众对有问题的过去的接受情况，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。尽管英国教育部尚未确定跨大西洋奴隶贸易何时将成为《国家历史课程》的必修课的时间表，但了解奴隶制和废奴已经为公民身份的教学和学习提供了信息。数据的收集和智力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，该战略将于2008年9月组织一次国际学者会议(与耶鲁大学GLC联合举行)，以反思西方思想传统中的奴隶制问题，并委托在AHRC KT项目完成后出版一卷学术文章。这将与2007/08年度的IPUP启动活动相吻合，该活动由一系列国际会议和活动组成(与《国际卫生条例》合作组织)，主题是“英国的过去和未来”。除了议会联盟关于纪念废除奴隶制的研究项目外，2007年还将在约克大学举办二百周年纪念活动，包括从2月6日起举办一系列关于奴隶制的公开讲座；7月2日至6日在终身学习中心举办的成人学习暑期学校，题为“与奴隶制作斗争：1807-2007年的过去、现在和未来”；以及4月12-14日举行的国际会议“废除1807-2007年：结束跨大西洋世界的奴隶制”。演讲者包括小说家Caryl Phillips和著名学者Simon Schama、Philip Morgan、David Murray、David Attwell、Jim Walvin、Henrice Altink、Marcus Wood、Vincent Carretta、Trevor Phillips、Kuabena Adurang-Parry、Adiele Afgibo。所有人都参加了网站的讨论。

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.