Week 1          Saskia Walentowitz, University of Berne

10th Oct       “We are like gold: without alloys, we won’t stand upright”: Siblingship, close-kin marriage and the autopoïetic dynamics of Tuareg kinship

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Week 2         Dawn Chatty, University of Oxford and Nisrine Mansour, University of Oxford

17th Oct      “They aren’t all first cousins”: Bedouin marriage in Lebanon

                         

Week 3         Alison Shaw, University of Oxford

24th Oct       Why does British Pakistani cousin marriage persist despite an established discourse of genetic risk?

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Week 4         Claire Beaudevin, Cermes3 (CNRS UMR 8211) / University Paris Descartes

31st Oct       Composite proximity, genetic burden and social value:  cousin marriage and inherited blood disorders in the Sultanate of Oman

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Week 5         Laila Prager, University of Münster

7th Nov        From shared ‘blood’ to ‘religious genes’: Modern bio-medical discourses and changing practices of cousin marriage in southeastern Turkey

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Week 6         Edien Bartels, Oka Storms, Marieke Teeuw, Pascal Borry and Leo ten Kate, Vrije University/VU University Medical Center, Amsterdam

14th Nov      Genetic risk and its influence on partner choice: the views of Turks and Moroccans in the Netherlands

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Week 7         Anika Liversage, National Centre for Social Research, Denmark and Mikkel Rytter, Aarhus University

21st Nov      “A cousin marriage is a forced marriage!” Rules, discourses and strategies of immigrant cousin marriages in Denmark

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Week 8          Aviad Raz, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev

28th Nov      Dor Yesharim and the reinforcement of stigma: selective incorporation of premarital carrier testing into traditional

                      matchmaking processes among ultra-orthodox Jews in Israel