The Second Annual Conference on Popular Romance will focus on Theorizing Romance. It will be held in Leuven, 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