Motto: Love in cultural contexts

Dates: March of 14 –16, 2025

Format: The online conference will present pre-recorded talks, followed by the Zoom livestreaming of thematic panel sessions.

Registration for participation in the Conference on Love Studies

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 dedicated platform for the exchange of ideas and research findings and a forum for dialogue and discussion. Therefore, the Conference is going to be 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 organized in January of 2024, many researchers from around the world expressed interest in having the Second Conference focused on research on love.

The mission of the Conference on Love Studies is to bring 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 include love as internal experiences and expressions as well as interpersonal relationships. The conference considers love in the varieties of its meanings, cultural models, social forms, and individual types. All kinds of love are pertinent to this conference. We are open to different methodologies from different fields of research.

The overview of the First Conference, its Program, and the video recordings of selected presentations can give you an impression of the diverse scope of the possible topics.

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

The Advisory Board of the Conference invites researchers and practitioners from various disciplines to submit their proposals for presentations on a wide range of love-related topics. The deadline for submitting proposals is January 14, 2025. Notifications of acceptance will be sent by January 20.

Registration for participation in the Conference on Love Studies

The registration will start on January 20, 2025, and the registration link will be posted on the conference website.

Tickets for participation in the conference:

Standard registration fee (from January 20 until February 20): $95

Book your place before February 20 to take advantage of the standard registration offer!

Late registration fee (after February 20 until March 12): $135

Presenters must register by March 1 to be included in the program.

The Institute of Love Studies considers publishing the conference proceedings.

On other pages of the website, you can see the details of the prospective conference format and program, the call for proposals, and the submission form.