{"id":10548,"date":"2026-01-27T11:48:37","date_gmt":"2026-01-27T11:48:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/cemore\/?p=10548"},"modified":"2026-01-27T11:48:42","modified_gmt":"2026-01-27T11:48:42","slug":"winter-webinar-2026-vagrancy-seasonal-labour-and-im-mobility-in-australasia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/cemore\/winter-webinar-2026-vagrancy-seasonal-labour-and-im-mobility-in-australasia\/","title":{"rendered":"Winter Webinar 2026: Vagrancy, Seasonal Labour and Im\/mobility in Australasia"},"content":{"rendered":"
Please join us for this year\u2019s CeMoRe Winter Webinar at which Catharine Coleborne<\/strong> (Professor of History, Newcastle, AU) and Kaya Barry<\/strong> (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.<\/p>\n Catharine<\/strong> will speak to her recently published book, Vagrant Lives in Colonial Australasia: Regulating Mobility, 1840-1910 <\/em>(Bloomsbury, 2024; pbk, 2025)<\/strong><\/p>\n Kaya<\/strong> will reflect upon the findings of her ARC-funded research project, \u2018Momentarily Immobile: the Futures of Backpacking and Seasonal Farm Workers\u2019 with a short paper entitled: \u2018Unseasonable Mobilities: practices of farming, weathering, and labour migration\u2019.<\/strong><\/p>\n Following the presentations, our two discussants<\/strong>, Katie Pickles <\/strong>(Professor of History, Canterbury, New Zealand) and Giovanni Bettini <\/strong>(Senior Lecturer, Lancaster\u2019s Environment Centre and CeMoRe Associate Director) will share their thoughts and questions, after which we will open up the discussion to our online participants.<\/p>\n When:<\/strong> Friday 30 January 2026<\/p>\n Time<\/strong>: 9.00-10.30am GMT (UK) (PLEASE CHECK YOUR TIME ZONE<\/strong>)<\/p>\n Chair:<\/strong> Lynne Pearce<\/p>\n Contact<\/strong> L.Pearce@lancaster.ac.uk<\/a><\/p>\n