This online conference hosted by the International Institute of Love Studies featured pre-recorded talks and livestreamed thematic panel sessions. The conference focused on international collaboration and integrating love research from different disciplines and cultures to increase diversity. The motto of the Conference was “Love in cultural contexts.” Participants highlighted the importance of cultural context when studying how people live and love in different societies.

The Diversity of Love Journal presents an overview of this interdisciplinary conference on love research as well as several thematic panel sessions that took place at the conference:

Love in Popular Culture and Literary Explorations, chaired by Willie van Peer from Ludwig Maximilian University, Munich, Germany,

Evolutionary and Cultural Perspectives on Love, chaired by Ian Skoggard from Human Relations Area Files at Yale University, USA,

Experiences and Expressions of Love, in sequence of Session 1 chaired by Sandra Langeslag from University of Missouri – St. Louis, USA, andSession 2 chaired by Charles Hill from Whittier College, USA,

Conceptual and Linguistic Research on Love, chaired by Zoltán Kövecses, from Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary, and Iryna Pinich from Kyiv National Linguistic University, Ukraine, and Södertörn University, Sweden,

Love and Family Relationships, chaired Anna Romanowicz from Jagiellonian University, Poland, and Claude-Hélène Mayer from University of Johannesburg, South Africa.