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Lecturer
Professor Louise Gallagher
How to apply
For those interested in attending the training,
please contact Nadia Bolshakova by
email:
.
Fee
€400 for two full days training
Date, time and place
Trinity Centre for Health Sciences,
St James’s Hospital, Dublin 8. The course
is running every three or four months.
Further information
Course website:
Contact: The Extramural Course Co-ordinator,
Nadia Bolshakova, phone: 01 896 2144,
email:
Race and Ethnicity: An
Introduction
This ten-week evening course will introduce
participants to theories of race and ethnicity,
locating race within social, economic, political
and ideological relations and situating race and
racism in relation to other divisions such as
class and gender and to emerging changes in
Irish society. Issues specific to Irish society will
include the position of the traveller community,
the links between racialisation and the asylum/
migration processes, and between racism and
anti-racism.
The course is open to all participants, but is
specifically suited to public sector and NGO
(
non-governmental organisation) employees.
Topics include
•
Exploring the conceptual confusion around
race, ethnicity, nationality
•
Identity and the politics of diversity
•
Ethnicity: negotiating boundaries
•
What is racism? Racialising the ‘other’
•
Racism in Irish society (including the asylum
process)
•
The politics of multiculturalism and
interculturalism: state responses to racism
•
Immigration and racism
•
Racism and anti-racism: social movement
responses to racism
How to apply
Register in advance by sending your name,
correspondence address and cheque/draft/
postal money order (made payable to Trinity
College no. 1 account) to the Evening Course
Co-ordinator, Department of Sociology, Trinity
College, Dublin 2. Phone: 086 8207486
Application forms are available to download
from
Course co-ordinator
Professor Andrew Finlay
Fee
€175 for each course. Payment must
accompany enrolment (asylum seekers free
on application), payable to Trinity College no. 1
account.
