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Pictured here is the cover for the Australian DVD of the film "A Frontier Conversation." The film will be screened for the first time in the United States on Thursday, Oct. 19.



Australia's history and people are focus of film

"A Frontier Conversation," a documentary about meetings between scholars from Yale and elsewhere and the indigenous peoples of Australia's Northern Territories, will be screened on Thursday, Oct. 19, at 4 p.m. in the Joseph Slifka Center for Jewish Life at Yale, 80 Wall St.

The event, which is free and open to the public, marks the first time that the film has been shown in America.

In September 2004, several Yale historians along with a group from the Australian National University (ANU) and Charles Darwin University (CDU) conducted a study tour of the region that extends from Darwin, on the coast, to Alice Springs, inland. Twice the size of California, the Northern Territory is informally known as the "Outback," with only 200,000 inhabitants, 60,000 of them aboriginal.

Members of the expedition met with indigenous leaders and engaged in a dialogue about Australia's history and peoples. One outcome of this expedition was the documentary film "A Frontier Conversation." The film deals with issues of cultural appropriation and copyright, land rights, the role of language and art, and the meaning of history in different cultural settings. It both signals the first step in a new approach to the study of frontier history and raises such questions as: How valuable can histories be to a community, if they are written by outsiders? What are the responsibilities of the historian, indigenous or not, to the people whose stories he or she attempts to tell?

Three members of the research tour will attend the screening to discuss the film and their experiences on the journey: Ann McGrath, director of the Australian Centre for Indigenous History at ANU, who narrated the film; Sonia Smallacombe, a member of the Maramanindji people of the Daly River region of the Northern Territories and a faculty member at CDU, who is currently working for the United Nations Secretariat on Indigenous Peoples in New York City; and Jay Gitlin, lecturer in history and associate director of the Howard R. Lamar Center for the Study of Frontiers and Borders, based at Yale. The film was directed and produced by Claire Haywood.

The screening of "A Frontier Conversation" is sponsored by the Lamar Center and Ethnicity, Race and Migration Studies at Yale. For information, call (203) 432-2328 or send e-mail to lamar.center@yale.edu.


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