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6.30-7.30pm, Sir Arthur Sullivan Hall, Birmingham and Midland Institute, 9 Margaret St, Birmingham B3 3BS (directions)
Join us for a reception to mark the opening of the ninth conference of the International Association for the Study of Popular Romance (IASPR), and the launch of Professor Jayashree Kamblé’s book, Creating Identity: The Popular Romance Heroine’s Journey to Selfhood and Self-Presentation (Indiana University Press, 2023).
All members and guests of the Popular and Genre Fiction Research Network are invited to attend.