The Love Studies Institute has posted on its YouTube channel the following presentations from the January 2024 conference in Las Palmas.
- What Is the Cross-Cultural Semantics of Love? by Anna Wierzbicka, Professor Emerita, Australian National University, Australia
- Love as a Complex Conceptual Category, by Zoltán Kövecses, Professor Emeritus, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary
- What’s New with Love in East Asia? Ethnographic and Theoretical Perspectives, by Jean Baptiste Pettier, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany
- Love in China: Politics, Economics and Social Change, by Pan Wang, University of New South Wales, Australia
- Love in the Arab World, by Corinne Fortier, French National Center of Scientific Research, Collège de France, Paris, France
- Love in Sub-Saharan African Contexts, by Claude-Hélène Mayer, University of Johannesburg, South Africa
- The Paradox of Romantic Equality. Do You Really Want a Superior Partner? by Aaron Ben-Ze’ev, University of Haifa, Israel
- Fluttering Hearts: through the looking glass of Korean romantic dramas, by Jessica Symons, University of Manchester, The United Kingdom
- There Is No Happy Love, by Willie van Peer, Ludwig Maximilian University, Munich, Germany
- Understanding Love in the Kathmandu Valley, Nepal, by Renée Ford, Aarhus University, Denmark
- Unspeakable Desires in Mary Dorcey’s ‘When You’re Asleep”, by Irene Lens-Fernández, The University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain
- How Love Is Verbally Constructed: A Cognitive Poetics Analysis of of “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock,” by Radhia Krid, College of Arts and Humanities of Sfax, Tunisia
- Romantic love, distraction, and task performance, by Sandra Langeslag, The University of Missouri – St. Louis, United States
- Phenotypes of romantic love, by Adam Bode, The Australian National University, Canberra, Australia
- Love Alamat. Love, Alamat: Loving a Pinoy Pop Boy group and the Multi-Layered Narrative It Entails, by Andrea Anne Trinidad, Ateneo de Manila University, Philippines
- Ways in which physical attractiveness and love are actually related, by Charles Hill, Whittier College, USA
- Metonymy and metaphor of love in Hausa language and culture, by Mustapha Tsakuwa, Yulin University, Shaanxi Province, China
- Symbolic Representations of the Love Act across Cultures, by Ian Skoggard, Human Relations Area Files at Yale University, United States
- Rethinking Love from Nature’s Perspective, by Estella Kuchta, Simon Fraser University, Canada
- Paler isn’t prettier: Little evidence of colorism among Asian American speed-daters, by Karen Wu, California State University, Los Angeles, United States
- Baby Makes Three: How Marital Love Changes During Transition to Parenthood, by Kristin Mickelson, Arizona State University, United States
- Rethinking Love from Nature’s Perspective, by Estella Kuchta, Simon Fraser University, Canada
- Paler isn’t prettier: Little evidence of colorism among Asian American speed-daters, by Karen Wu, California State University, Los Angeles, United States
- Baby Makes Three: How Marital Love Changes During Transition to Parenthood, by Kristin Mickelson, Arizona State University, United States
We hope you will enjoy these presentations that we have posted on the Institute’s YouTube channel.
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