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1980年代的涂鸦。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总结的有趣问题的影响。有争议的是，在治疗中，过去被改变了(我们的理解被改变了)，这可以改变现在和未来的痛苦。档案馆和博物馆如何能够对过去进行这样的未来重组？项目研讨会将探索殖民和后殖民历史中有争议的事件的背景和潜在理解，首先是喀麦隆的巴米莱克起义，然后考虑这一案件对英国和欧洲其他国家的相关性。将讨论的主题与学术界以外的各种不同职业相关，并因此可能产生影响：档案员和博物馆馆长从事有争议的收藏品工作，并受到本身有争议的高度可变的阅读/解释的影响。

"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.