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What Does Being Romantic Mean Today ?

25 February 2026

Attitude profiles on love and intimacy ideals in the Canadian population

5 February 2024

Canadians have different ideas and values regarding intimate relationships. What are their leading ideals? More than 3000 participants aged 18+ in 2022 have participated in the Mapping Contemporary Love and Intimacy Ideals in Canada (MACLIC) project, based at the Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM) and co-directed by Professor Chiara Piazzesi and Professor Martin Blais, […]

Maclic conference – Poul Poder

15 November 2023

“What could, should and do late-modern persons learn about love relationships during their love life careers?” The conference will consist of a 40-minute presentation followed by a discussion with the author. Date : Friday, December 1st 2023 – 9:00 am Location: Zoom Registration here About the author : Poul Poder is Associate Professor at the […]

June 1st 2023 – Presentation by Lamia Djemoui at the Canadian Sociological Association Congress

24 May 2023

The Ambiguities of Therapeutic Tools: Intimacy and Emotional Illiteracy in Scenes from a Marriage (1973-2022)” presented at the session “Theorizing Therapeutic Cultures” between 8:30 and 10:00 am.

June 2nd 2023 – Presentation by Chiara Piazzesi and Mario Marotta at the Canadian Sociological Association Congress

24 May 2023

Chiara Piazzesi will present her paper “What Makes for a Successful Relationship? Moral values and normativity in users’ comments on social media” at the session “Social Theory III” between 8:30 and 10:00am. Mario Marotta will present his paper “The monopoly of symbolic violence and the reproduction of logical conformity” at the session “Social Theory II” […]

May 31st 2023 – Presentation by Chiara Piazzesi and Félix Dusseau at the Canadian Sociological Association Congress

24 May 2023

Chiara Piazzesi will present her paper “Understanding Love and Intimacy: Theoretical Data Triangulation in the Study of Current Emotional Experience in Canada” at the session “Methodological Advances in the Study of Emotions: Challenges and Possibilities” between 8:30 and 10:00 am. Félix Dusseau will present his paper “Naming pluralities: plural relationships and intimacy categorization” at the […]

May 29th 2023 – Presentation by Lamia Djemoui at the Canadian Sociological Association Congress

24 May 2023

L’injonction à la honte comme outil de contrôle du corps féminin : la représentation de la sexualité féminine contemporaine dans la série The Handmaid’s Tale (2017 – ). presented at the session Feminist sociology and reproductive lives, bodies, and politics – Session I between 10:30 and 12:00 am.

May 12, 2023 – Launch of “The Beauty Paradox” by Chiara Piazzesi

4 May 2023

Ideal Relationship Configurations in Canada

7 February 2023

For citation : Piazzesi, Chiara, Martin Blais, Baiocco Michele, Noé Klein. (2023) Ideal relationship configurations of Canadian adults, https://maclic.uqam.ca/en/news/ideal-relationship-configurations-in-canada/

“New partnerships in their sixties: renewed possibilities?” Publication of an article by a member of our team

24 November 2022

New publication by Chloé Dauphinais, PhD candidate in sociology with a concentration in feminist studies under the supervision of Chiara piazzesi, in the next issue of the journal Enfances Familles Générations. It’s already available online if you want to check it out (URL : http://journals.openedition.org/efg/13464)! Here’s the summary:Based upon my master research in sociology, this article […]