The Love Lab is an interdisciplinary platform for sharing and developing insights into the multifaceted subject of love. Working to bring together academics, practitioners, artists, and students, the Love Lab encourages collaborative research to reach its objectives: expanding notions of love in and beyond the romantic; fostering new imaginaries of intimacy in late-modern societies; and exploring how ideas about love’s temporal, affective and embodied qualities inform experiences and perspectives in different contexts.
In particular, the Love Lab hopes to cultivate a space for scholars and students to discuss and conduct multi- and interdisciplinary research on a wide range of topics, share and discuss findings, and develop new lines of inquiry. Potential topics include, but are not limited to:
Enduring love in romantic relationships within different cultural contexts;
Experiences of non-romantic love and their associated temporal qualities, e.g. how platonic relationships develop and are maintained over time
Entanglements between love and experiences of disrupted/non-normative temporality, e.g. how love interacts with chronic illness, displacement, etc
Commercial, professional, and institutional approaches to love, e.g. the invocation of love in (pop-)psychology, media, therapy/counselling advice, marketing, etc
Love and intimate life as mediated through existing and emerging digital technologies
The role of memory and storytelling in experiences of (non-) romantic love
The role of embodied sensation in experiences of (non-) romantic lov
Rhythms of Love 