After the great success of the First and Second International Conferences on Love Studies, which the Institute of Love Studies convened in 2024 and 2025, many researchers and practitioners from around the world expressed interest in having the Third Conference focused on research on love and relationships.

The International Institute of Love Studies plans to convene the Third Conference on Love and Relationship Studies on 6–8 March 2026 in an online format with pre-recorded talks, followed by the Zoom livestreaming of thematic panel sessions.

The aim of the conferences on love and relationship studies is to bring together researchers, practitioners from various disciplines, and non-academic professionals to speak about their research projects and findings. The conference will be multidisciplinary and international in its scope. Research on various kinds of love is relevant for presentations and discussions at this conference. We are open to different methodologies from different fields of research. We consider love in the varieties of its meanings, cultural models, social forms, individual types, internal experiences and expressions, and interpersonal relationships.

The Advisory Board invites the submissions of proposals for presentations at the Conference on a wide range of love-related topics. We welcome researchers, practitioners, and other professionals from any discipline and field of study and practice to present and engage in discussion.

We invite submissions of original, unpublished work. Submissions must represent new research or ideas that have not been presented at any previous conference or published in a journal. Please be aware that submitting a presentation that is concurrently submitted for publication or presentation elsewhere is a violation of publication ethics.

By submitting, authors confirm that their work is original and exclusive to this conference. A presentation of the work in progress is welcome, as long as it presents original findings specifically for this conference.

The call for proposals is open.

The early bird deadline for submitting the abstracts of proposals is October 20, 2025. Notifications of acceptance in the conference program will be sent by October 30.

Early bird registration for presenters at the Third Conference on Love and Relationship Studies will open on November 1, 2025, and information will be posted on the conference website.

The regular deadline for submitting the abstracts of proposals is November 20, 2025. Notifications of acceptance in the conference program will be sent by November 30.

Regular registration for presenters at the Third Conference on Love and Relationship Studies will open on December 1, 2025, and information will be posted on the conference website.

You can see more information at the Conference website, along with the Submission Form for Conference Presentation Proposals and Guidelines for Submissions.

If you have any questions about the conference schedule or submission process, please contact us at love.studies.institute@gmail.com