Annie Macdonald Langstaff Workshop: Identités plurielles: couple mixtes et transmission du judaïsme

Prof. Séverine Mathieu received her PhD in sociology from Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB) and she is an associate professor of social science at the École Pratique des Hautes Études (EPHE, Paris). Besides her research on AIDS, medical experimentation and ethics, she works on themes related to mixed couples and judaïsm.

Over the last three years, she has participated the REDCo (6th PCRDT) program, a European survey about religion in school, with the participation of eight countries, under the direction of Wolfram Weisse (University of Hamburg). She was responsible for the French qualitative survey among more than one hundred pupils.

At the EPHE, she teaches methodology to master students and lectures on 19th - 20th century medicine and religion. In addition to many articles on these topics, in, she published a book with Jean Bauberot, Religion, modernité et Culture en France et au Royaume Uni. 1800-1914 (Seuil, Paris, 2002). She also worked with Jean-Paul Willaime on Des maîtres et des dieux (Edition Belin, Paris, 2005) and La transmission du judaïsme dans les couples mixtes (Editions de l'Atelier, Paris, 2009).

The lecture will be introduced by Professor Shauna Van Praagh.