Black History Month: If These Halls Could Talk screening

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About Amelia

Dr Amelia Baldwin is a Senior Lecturer in Counselling Psychology and a BPS Chartered and HCPC registered Counselling Psychologist. 

Amelia is passionate about equality and social justice and this has led her to work in various roles such as developing policy, advocacy, therapist, working with community groups, NHS services and case-working for those targeted by hate crime. Amelia has taught and led on issues of working relationally with difference, anti-racism and intersectionality. She began lecturing at UWE in 2012 in the areas of 'race', privilege, transcultural counselling and feminist approaches to therapy. Amelia supervises doctoral and undergraduate research and her own masters and doctoral research has looked at the experiences of helping relationships in Asian cultures and British Women's Experiences of Racist Hate Crime.

Amelia is the module leader for the Systemic Thinking and Practice in Counselling Psychology and co-module leader for the Principles in Counselling Psychology.

About the session

“If These Halls Could Talk” is a film directed by Lee Mun Wah. Lee Mun Wah is an internationally renowned Chinese American documentary filmmaker, author, poet, Asian folkteller, educator, community therapist and master diversity trainer. The following is a description from his consultancy organisation's website about the film:

“During the hot summer of 2010, Director Lee Mun Wah (also the Director of The Color of Fear) brought together eleven faculty students to discuss what it is like on campuses across the country today. The students shared the frustration and anguish of trying to be understood and acknowledged on campus where the college and students are predominantly White. Their stories are starkly emotional and raw, filled with incredible tenderness, courage and pain. The issues that they challenge us to look at are equally provocative, begging to be heard and confronted.

If you have ever wondered why our students and faculty of color are leaving our campuses, you have difficulties understanding students from other cultures, if you don't know what to say or do when a conflict occurs as it relates to a diversity issue, then the film, If These Halls Could Talk, will help model for you what it will take to have conversations on diversity that are both authentic and life-changing. This film will provide a glimpse into what is still missing and what is needed if we are ever going to come together in our classrooms, on our campuses and in our communities.”

Join us for a screening of part of this brilliant film followed by a dialogue about what this brings up for us and highlights for our university.