Conference Programme 

Demographic Transition, Transformations of Kinship and Marriage, and the Application of Islamic Family Law

Fribourg, 15 – 17 May 2014

University of Fribourg, Boulevard de Pérolles 90, 1700 Fribourg

Organization : E. Comte (CNRS, associate researcher at Ifpo)

Ifpo scientific programme : La transition démographique au Moyen-Orient et en Afrique du Nord : http://www.ifporient.org/node/892

Programme
Wednesday, 14 May 2014, Arrival, Pérolles Campus, Room G130:
19.00 – 21.00 Welcoming address and dinner

Thursday, 15 May 2014, Pérolles Campus, Joseph Deiss Hall 002:
"Demographic Transition in Muslim Contexts"
09.00 – 10.00 John CASTERLINE, Institute for Population Research, State University of Ohio, Columbus: "Demographic Transformation in the Middle East and North Africa: An Overview"

10.00 – 11.00 İsmet KOÇ, Hacettepe University Institute of Population Studies, Ankara: " Socio-demographic Aspects of Marital Unions in Turkey"

11.00 – 11.30 Coffee break, Pérolles Campus, Joseph Deiss Hall 002

11.30 – 12.30 Rania SALEM, Department of Sociology, University of Toronto: "A Marriage Crisis in Egypt? Assessing Delayed Marriage, Never-Marriage, and Secret Marriage"

12.30 – 14.00 Lunch break at Pérolles Mensa

14.00 – 15.00 Mohammad Jalal ABBASI-SHAVAZI and Meimanat HOSSEINI CHAVOSHI, College of Arts and Social Sciences, Australian National University, Canberra/University of Tehran: "Modernization or Cultural Maintenance: The Practices of Consanguineous Marriages in Iran"

15.00 – 16.00 Batool ZAIDI, Department of Sociology, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill: "Trends in Consanguinity in Pakistan"

16.00 – 16.30 Coffee break, Pérolles Campus, Joseph Deiss Hall 002

16.30 – 17.30 TEY Nai Peng, Department of Applied Statistics, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur: "Fertility Transition in Multi-ethnic Malaysia"

19.30 – 21.00 Dinner at Restaurant "San Marco", Boulevard de Pérolles 18, 1700 Fribourg

Friday, 16 May 2014, Pérolles Campus, Room D130:
Nasab: Marriage Exchange and the Generation of Pedigree
09.00 – 10.00 Carol PALMER, The British Institute at Amman-Council for British Research in the Levant: "Demographic Transformation through the Prism of a Life History"

10.00 – 11.00 Sylvain PERDIGON, Department of Sociology, Anthropology and Media Studies, American University of Beirut: "Relatedness in the Palestinian Refugee Community of Tyre (Lebanon)"

11.00 – 11.30 Coffee break, Pérolles Campus, Room G130

11.30 – 12.30 Jalal AL HUSSEINI, French Institute for the Near East, Amman: "Nasab and Diaspora among Traditional Palestinian Families of Notables: From Jerusalem to Jordan, the Gulf, and beyond"

12.30 – 14.00 Lunch break at Pérolles Mensa

14.00 -15.00 Édouard CONTE, Laboratoire d'anthropologie sociale, CNRS, Paris / Institute for Family Research, University of Fribourg & Waleed GHARAIBEH, Department of Biology, University of Jordan, Amman: "Consanguinity in North Jordan: Marriage by Sibling Permutation in Transgenerational Perspective"

15.00 -16.00 Saskia WALENTOWITZ, Institute of Social Anthropology, University of Bern: "Fractal Ontologies of Nasab: Material Semiotics of Kinship in a Gender-balanced Berber Community of Niger"

16.00 – 16.30 Coffee break, Pérolles Campus, Room G130

16.30 -17.30 John CASTERLINE & Colin ODDEN, Institute for Population Research, State University of Ohio, Columbus: "Demographic Transition: Consequences for Consanguinity"

19.30 – 21.00 Dinner "Buffet Riche", Pérolles Campus, Room G130

Saturday, 17 May 2014, Pérolles Campus, Room E230:
Relatedness and Gender in Muslim Law and Practice
09.00 – 10.00 Baudouin DUPRET, Centre Jacques Berque, CNRS, Rabat: "Sharia Today. Usages of the Reference to Islamic Law"

10.00 – 11.00 Nadia SONNEVELD, Sociology of Law Department, Radboud University, Nijmegen: "Khul' Divorce in Egypt"

11.00 -11.30 Coffee break, Pérolles Campus, Room G130

11.30 – 12.30 Elisabeth NÖSSING, Institute of Islamic Studies, University of Bern, "Divorce because of Discord and the Transformations of Divorce Law in Morocco

12.30 – 14.00 Lunch break at Restaurant "Le Commerce", Boulevard de Pérolles 69, 1700 Fribourg

14.00 – 15.00 Marta ARENA, École des hautes études en sciences sociales, Paris: "Out-of-wedlock Descent in Tunisia"

15.00 – 16.00 Fida ADELY, Center for Contemporary Arab Studies, Georgetown University, Washington, D.C.: "The Marriage Crisis in Jordan"

16.00 – 16.30 Coffee break, Pérolles Campus, Room G130

16.30 – 17.30 Nahda SHEHADA, Institute of Social Sciences, The Hague: "The Differential Application of Islamic Family Law in Gaza City and Damascus"

17.30 – 18.30 Final debate

20.00 – 22.00 Dinner at the "Auberge du Chasseur" Restaurant, Rue de Lausanne 10, 1700 Fribourg

Contact: Édouard Conte, edouard.conte@college-de-france.fr