Romantic Regions
Mexico City, June 24-26 2025
Our theme for the 2025 IASPR conference is Romantic Regions, thinking through the evolving relationships between romance, place, and space, building on the previous two IASPR conferences—Sydney 2018 (“Think Globally, Love Locally”) and Birmingham 2023 (“Romance Revitalised”).
Papers will think broadly and creatively about the idea of the “region”, which may refer to geographic, economic, and/or political regions such as North America, or may be approached from more abstract angles.
Popular Romance Studies is an interdisciplinary field, including (but not limited to) scholars from literary studies; film, television, and media studies; communication and the social sciences; critical race, feminist, queer and disability studies; audience & fan studies, etc. A broad range of theoretical and empirical approaches are featured at our conferences and the conference includes talks, panels, and workshops on professional development, international collaboration, and pedagogy. Content creators, writers, and professionals from various romance industries are also welcome.