Postcolonial Uses for the Primary Sources of British Imperial Merchant Seafarers in the 19th & 20th Centuries is a roundtable discussion with researchers of colonized seafarers hosted on Webex 

How might researchers better explore primary sources to write post-colonial maritime histories? This roundtable brings together scholars of British-Asiatic and British-African merchant seafarers to discuss the challenges.

Speakers:

• Looking for Lascars in the Archive: Non-European Seamen in Ships’ Official Logbooks, Naina Manjrekar, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology, Mumbai.
• ‘Native’ Seafarers, Racial Management, and the Problem of Agency, Ravi Ahuja, Centre for Modern Indian Studies, Göttingen University.
• Finding Colonized Seafarers (and others) in Unlikely Places: What to Do When ‘There are no sources’, Laura Tabili, Department of History, University of Arizona.