Lecture

08 May 2024 · 6.00 pm

Jonathan Stafford: “Drowning is a very prosaic Arrangement”. Imperial Imaginaries in Nineteenth-Century Accounts of Shipwreck on the Steamship Voyage to India

Venue: Ruhr-University Bochum

Research project(s): Shipwreck and Lifesaving in European Societies since 1800

Lecture at the Kolloquium zur Geschichte des 19. und 20. Jahrhunderts (Chair of Nineteenth-Century Transnational History and Chair of Contemporary History) at Ruhr-University Bochum in the summer semester of 2024

The cultural historian Jonathan Stafford is a research asscociate in the project Archipelagic Imperatives. Shipwreck and Lifesaving in European Societies since 1800.