Melbourne is host to thousands of international students. If you lived and studied overseas, how would you create a ‘home away from home’? This talk explores the exciting and creative ways that international students find a sense of belonging while living overseas and apart from family, friends and the familiar.

BIO

Catherine Gomes is Associate Professor in the School of Media and Communication at RMIT University. She is a migration and mobility ethnographer whose speciality is researching into the everyday lives of transient migrants. Catherine’s publications include seven books, among which the latest are Siloed Diversity: Transnational Migration, Digital Media and Social Networks (Palgrave Pivot, 2018) and Transnational Migrations in the Asia-Pacific Transformative Experiences in the Age of Digital Media (with Brenda Yeoh, Rowman & Littlefield, 2018).

8:30 PM @RMIT Roof, Rooftop, RMIT Building 80, 445 Swanston St, Melbourne VIC 3000

Entrance over 18  |  The venue is wheelchair accessible.

Also speaking at RMIT Roof @6:00 pm is Marco Amati and @7:30pm is Maddison Miller & Zena Cumpston