Motto: Love in cultural contexts

Dates: March of 14 –16, 2025

Format: This online conference presented pre-recorded talks, followed by the Zoom livestreaming of thematic panel sessions. The webpage with the Program of the 2nd Conference on Love Studies explains the details of how this format worked.

Topics of love have become popular across many academic fields, such as anthropology, sociology, psychology, biology, linguistics, literary studies, history, philosophy, religious studies, and other disciplines. The increasing number of studies on love worldwide has gotten to the point where academics and practitioners who are interested in this topic want to have a special platform dedicated to the exchange of ideas and research findings and a forum for dialogue and discussion. Therefore, the conference was truly multidisciplinary and international in its scope.

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

This 2nd Conference continued the mission of the 1st Conference launched in 2024 and brought together researchers and practitioners from various disciplines as well as non-academic professionals to speak about their research projects and findings. The diverse themes of the conference included love as internal experiences and expressions as well as interpersonal relationships. The conference considered love in the varieties of its meanings, cultural models, social forms, and individual types. It was open to different methodologies from different fields of research.

Scholarly knowledge of love is scattered across many disciplines around the world. The aim of the conferences on love studies is to enrich the research-based knowledge of love through cross-pollination of ideas and findings from various disciplines and countries. We hope that these conferences bring this diverse knowledge together in a scholarly framework that is both universal and culturally specific. Such an interdisciplinary and international forums of love researchers bring numerous and diverse studies of love and practices into a complex and comprehensive picture of research-based knowledge.

One can see the varieties of topics presented at the 2nd Conference in its program and their summaries in the articles published in the Diversity of Love Journal:

Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Love Studies,

Love in Popular Culture and Literary Explorations,

Evolutionary and Cultural Perspectives on Love,

Experiences and Expressions of Love,

Conceptual and Linguistic Research on Love,

Love and Family Relationships.

Those who are interested can see the overview of the 1st Conference, its program, and the video recordings of selected talks that represented the diverse scope of the research topics on love.

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