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Day 1, January, 14th, 20129:00: Registration of participants9:30: Welcoming addresses by:    H. E. Professor Adel Tweissi, President of the University of Jordan    Alain Aumis, Cultural counsellor, French Embassy in Amman    Fran&#231;ois Burgat, Director of French Institute for the Near East (Ifpo)    Carol Palmer, Director of the British Institute in Amman, Council for British Research in the Levant (CBRL)Introduction    10:00-10:45 &#201;douard Conte (Bern): A dialogue of disciplines: different methods, common questionsCoffee break 10:45-11:15Session 1: Epistemologies of reproduction and transmission    11:15-12:00 Adam Kuper (London): Cousin marriage in Victorian England    12:00-12:45 Waleed Gharaibeh (Amman): Subsistence economy, population history and genealogy in the Near East12:45-14:00 Lunch break    14:00-14:45 John Casterline (Columbus): Fertility decline in the Arab region    14:45-15:30 Carol Palmer (Amman): Demographic transformation through the prism of a life historyCoffee break 15:30-16:00    16:00-16:45 Ir&#232;ne Maffi (Lausanne): Reproduction is &#8220;good to think&#8221;. Field observations from Jordan16:45 - 17:30 General discussionDinner 20:00Day 2, January, 15th, 2012Session 2: Ontologies of nasab    9:15-10:00 Stefan Leder (Beirut): Discourses and practices of nasab today    10:00-10:45 &#201;douard Conte (Bern): Intis&#226;b: elective affinities and the construction of pedigreeCoffee break 10:45-11:15    11:15-12:00 Saskia Walentowitz (Bern): Dynamics of nasab in a gender-balanced Berber communitySession 3: Alliance, Consanguinity, fertility    12:00-12:45 &#201;douard Conte (Bern) A review of research on consanguinity and fertility in IranLunch break 12:45-14:00    14:00-14:45 Alison Shaw (Oxford): The persistence of transnational consanguineous marriages among British Pakistanis    14:45-15:30 Marwan Khawaja (Beirut): Consanguinity and fertility among PalestiniansCoffee Break 15:30-16:0016:00-17:00 Badal, a film by Ibtisam Mara&#8217;ana17:00-18:00 General discussionDinner 20:00Day 3, January, 16th, 2012Session 4 Marriage and Demographic Processes    9:15-10:00 Fida Adely (Washington, D. C.): Marriage crisis in Jordan: courting, match-making and gendered transformations    10:00-10:45 İsmet Ko&#231; (Ankara): Sociodemographic aspects of marital unions in TurkeyCoffee break 10:45-11:15    11:15-12:00 Jamila Bargach (Rabat): Journeys of love and despair for unwed mothers in MoroccoSession 5: Migration and Demography    12:00-12:45 Mehmet Ali Eryut (Ankara): Internal migration and fertility in TurkeyLunch break 12:45-14:00    14:00-14:45 Jalal Al Husseini (Amman): Migrating in a void: the dynamics of the Palestinian refugee migrations in the Middle East and beyond    14:45-15:30 Philippe Fargues (Florence): Demography, migration, and revolt in the South of the MediterraneanCoffee Break 15:30-16:0016:00-18:00: General discussion and conclusionInternational Conference co-organized by:    British Institute in Amman    Faculty of Science of the University of Jordan    French Institute for the Near East ( IFPO)    University of Bernand sponsored by the:    d&#8217;Alembert Fund of the French Foreign Ministry    Council for British Research in the Levant-British Academy    Cultural Section of the French Embassy in Amman    Swiss National Science Foundation    University of Bern    University of Jordan