Catharine Coleborne and Kaya Barry
Please join us for this year’s CeMoRe Winter Webinar at which Catharine Coleborne (Professor of History, Newcastle, AU) and Kaya Barry (Senior Lecturer in Geography and Art, Griffith, AU) will be presenting on their recent research. Although focusing on different periods in Australasian history, their research shares a common interest in the im/mobilities of the disenfranchised.
Catharine will speak to her recently published book, Vagrant Lives in Colonial Australasia: Regulating Mobility, 1840-1910 (Bloomsbury, 2024; pbk, 2025)
Kaya will reflect upon the findings of her ARC-funded research project, ‘Momentarily Immobile: the Futures of Backpacking and Seasonal Farm Workers’ with a short paper entitled: ‘Unseasonable Mobilities: practices of farming, weathering, and labour migration’.
Following the presentations, our two discussants, Katie Pickles (Professor of History, Canterbury, New Zealand) and Giovanni Bettini (Senior Lecturer, Lancaster’s Environment Centre and CeMoRe Associate Director) will share their thoughts and questions, after which we will open up the discussion to our online participants.
When: Friday 30 January 2026
Time: 9.00-10.30am GMT (UK) (PLEASE CHECK YOUR TIME ZONE)
Chair: Lynne Pearce
Contact L.Pearce@lancaster.ac.uk
TEAMS LINK: Cemore Winter Webinar
