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This symposium brings a twenty-first century perspective to Indigenous and settler landscape traditions and to the way that contemporary screen cultures are engaging with environmental issues, land rights and recognition.

A screening of Warwick Thornton’s film, We Don’t Need a Map, will be followed by a panel discussion with Bruce Pascoe, editor and anthologist and award-winning Indigenous author of Dark Emu, Belinda Smaill, Associate Professor at Monash University and author of Regarding Life: Animals and the Documentary Moving Image, and Therese Davis, Associate Professor at Monash University and collaborator on the Australian Indigenous Film and Television online Knowledge Sharing Platform, AIFTV-research.net

Following the screening, the panel will address the ways in which We Don’t Need a Map, Sweet Country, 1950s documentary and wildlife webcams open up new ways of looking at land, the environment, the colonial logic of exploitation and Indigenous practices and ethics of caring for country. The film and panel will be introduced by Felicity Collins and Hester Joyce from La Trobe University’s Centre for the Study of the Inland.