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

沉默是我们表现过去方式的重要元素。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，但它们运作的过程却没有那么明确的概念化。该网络将区分“沉默”和“沉默”，以便研究博物馆和历史遗址的教育官员如何传达和教授被认为具有挑战性或“困难”的历史。作为这种教学的一部分，博物馆和历史遗址现在经常采用同理心的策略来面对艰难的过去。该网络将借鉴关于移情和可及性问题的大量工作，以询问移情在一般学习结果中被识别的方式。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，以一种真正跨学科的方式开展工作。网络中专业知识的多样性将有助于关注沉默和移情的不同文化概念，以及这些理解是（或不是）主导记忆理解的一部分的方式。学者和实践者的合作将促进对博物馆和历史遗址中沉默、移情和记忆如何相互作用的理解。这些发现将对博物馆和遗址专业人士、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、伦敦历史皇家宫殿塔和巴克法斯特修道院举办三场讲习班和一次会议。这些会议的安排将促进各领域的对话、合作和进展。该网络将在其整个期间维持一个网站和博客，以加强思想交流，报告讲习班的情况，在最初项目结束后保持动力，并从成员的支持者中更广泛地吸引兴趣。指导小组还将通过网站、博客、教育工作者培训日、会议论文、合著文章和期刊特刊等方式传播研究结果。

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.