Dates: 6 –8 March 2026

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

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 from around the world expressed interest in having the Third Conference focused on research on love and relationships.

Conference Overview. The aim of the Conference on Love and Relationship Studies is to bring together researchers and practitioners from various disciplines and non-academic professionals to speak about their research projects and findings. The conference considers love in the varieties of its meanings, cultural models, social forms, individual types, internal experiences and expressions, and interpersonal relationships. 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.

With the increasing number of studies on love and relationships across disciplines worldwide, researchers, practitioners, and other professionals are interested in sharing their research-based knowledge with their colleagues, who are involved in similar types of research and topics. Therefore, these conferences are to serve as a dedicated forum for the exchange of ideas and research findings and a forum for dialogue and discussion.

This Third Conference on Love and Relationship Studies will be once again multidisciplinary and international in its scope. Researchers, practitioners, and other professionals from any discipline and field of study and practice are welcome to present and discuss.

To get some impression of the diverse scope of possible topics, you can watch the selected video recordings from the First Conference and the Second Conference on the Institute of Love Studies’ YouTube channel.

Scholarly knowledge of love is scattered across many disciplines and around the world. These conferences are 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 will bring the 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 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.

Here are the Call for Proposals and Guidelines for Submissions.

Organizers of the conference consider publishing the Proceedings of the International Institute of Love Studies 2026 as a special collection of the summary papers presented at the conference.

Registration for participation in the Third Conference on Love and Relationship Studies as attendees (without presentations) will open on December 1, 2025, and information will be posted on the conference website.