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The Second Annual International Conference on Popular Romance:
Popular Romance Studies: Theory, Text and Practice
Brussels, Belgium
5-7 August, 2010

The International Association for the Study of Popular Romance (IASPR) will be hosting panels, papers, roundtables, discussion groups, and multi-media presentations that contribute to a sustained conversation about romantic love and its representations in popular media throughout the world, from antiquity to the present.

This conference has three main goals:

• To bring to bear contemporary critical theory on the texts and contexts of popular romance, in all forms and media, from all national and cultural traditions
• To foster comparative and intercultural analyses of popular romance, by documenting and/or theorizing what happens to tropes and texts as they move across national, linguistic, and cultural boundaries
• To explore the relationships between popular romance tropes and texts as they circulate between elite and popular culture, between different media (e.g., from novel to film, or from song to music video), between cultural representations and the lived experience of readers, viewers, listeners, and lovers

IASPR is pleased and proud to announce that the Keynote Speakers for the conference will be Celestino Deleyto, University of Zaragoza, Spain, Lynne Pearce, Lancaster University, UK, and Pamela Regis, McDaniel College, USA.

After the conference, proceedings will be subjected to peer-review and published.

Registration for IASPR’s conference in Belgium is now open.

Special student rates are available, as are rates for just one or two days of conference attendance, rather than the full conference fee.

Please come and join us in Brussels, 5-7 August, 2010.

The Second Annual Conference on Popular Romance will focus on Theorizing Romance. It will be held in Brussels, Belgium, 5-7 August, 2010.

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The Second Annual Conference on Popular Romance will focus on Theorizing Romance. It will be held in Leuven, Belgium, 5-7 August, 2010.

IASPR is seeking proposals for innovative panels, papers, roundtables, discussion groups, and multi-media presentations that contribute to a sustained conversation about popular romance across all genres and in all media.

Please see the official Call for Proposals for more details.

For its inaugural issue (Winter 2010), the Journal of Popular Romance Studies is now considering papers on representations of romantic love in popular media, now or in the past, from anywhere in the world.

Read the official Call for Submissions for more information.

The First Annual Conference on Popular Romance, held in August 2009 in Brisbane, Australia made a splash in the media.

See the feature on Australia’s ABC News.

Watch the Associated Press story on Romance Novel Enthusiasts in Brisbane.

The International Association for the Study of Popular Romance is dedicated to fostering and promoting the scholarly exploration of all popular representations of romantic love. IASPR is committed to building a strong community of scholars of popular romance through open, digital access to all scholarly work published by the Association, by organizing or sponsoring an annual international conference on popular romance studies, and by encouraging the teaching of popular romance at all levels of higher education.

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For more information, contact us at contact@iaspr.org