In conjunction with the travelling workshop series, the Australian Studies Institute at ANU kindly welcomed representatives of the Cologne Centre for Australian Studies and members of the Human Journeys in the Global Era program to discuss the role of Australian Studies in the context of global migration studies, and to explore possibilities for future collaborations between the German Australian Studies Centre and the Australian Studies Institute. CAS Cologne kindly thanks the Australian Studies Institute at ANU for their hospitality and for the fruitful conversations enabled by this meeting.