Applied Narratology Conferences
Conferences that intersect with narrative — but aren’t about narrative itself.
2026 Contemporary Narrative Therapy Conference
An interactive session for makers and thinkers to collaborate, connect, and spark new ideas.
2026 Zip-Scene Conference on Immersive Storytelling Vol. 8
Zip-Scene scientific researchers, game professionals, programmers, artists, scholars and professionals from the fields of performing arts and game studies, as well as interactive storytellers, experience designers, narrative designers, VR professionals and philosophers and others concerned with the conference topics.
2027 International Symposium on Autoethnography and Narrative
The 2027 ISAN will provide scholars and practitioners of all experience levels an opportunity to present their autoethnographic and personal narrative projects and to socialize with scholars across a variety of disciplines.
2027 American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA)
The Annual Meeting of the American Comparative Literature Association.
2026 Conference of Narrative Therapy and Community Work
This conference is for professionals, allied workers and similar, primarily working in the UK in areas such as mental health, physical health, education, social work, social care, and allied fields, whether in state services or the third sector.
NarraScope 2026
NarraScope is a conference that brings together the writers, developers, scholars, and players of interactive narrative.
ARDIN Voices: Narrative design from Within and Without
ARDIN Voices: Narrative design from Within and Without
Märten Rattasepp – Narrative Design from Within and Without. Märten Rattasepp may be one of Estonia's most widely read writers; his ARDIN Voices talk will explore narrative design from both inside and outside the industry.
Project Narrative: Narrative as Medicine
Narrative as Medicine: When Telling a Story Changes the Body with Joshua M. Smyth.
This talk explores the potential for a productive collision between narrative theory and mind–body science: the idea that narrative is not only a lens on experience but a lever that can transform it.
2025 Contemporary Narrative Therapy Conference
Theme: Narrative Therapy's Unfinished Projects
Zip-Scene Vol. 7
Theme: Hunting for Attention: Interactive Digital Storytelling in Fragmented Attention Landscapes.
The Zip-Scene Conference takes XR/extended reality (VR/AR/MR) and Metaverse-related works seriously and treats them on equal footing to film and performing arts, and wishes to expand its scientific treatment and reflection.
International Narrative Conference on Narrative Therapy and Community Work
This conference featured the diverse work of Rwandan practitioners with children and families and from narrative therapists and community workers from many different parts of the world.
Narrative/Metaphor Nexus Project
Theme: Look Both Ways: Narrative and Metaphor in Education.
The 2025 winter school was on the interplay between narrative and the mind, to examine how cognition is informed by narrativity, and how narratives are shaped by our cognitive engagement.
Narrative/Metaphor Nexus Project
Theme: Narrative and Metaphor in the Law
Legal scholars and specialists from cognitive theory, journalism, rhetoric, social psychology, criminology, and legal activism explored how narrative and metaphor are both vital to the legal process.
Narrative/Metaphor Nexus Project
Theme: Binocular Vision: Narrative and Metaphor in Medicine
Topics included: narrative and metaphor in patients’ experience of illness, the narrative medicine programs which have been developed in medical schools and the value of adding a metaphor dimension to these.
The Narrative/Metaphor Nexus Project
Theme: Narrative and Metaphor across the Disciplines.
Convened contributors from architecture, dance, economics, education, environmental studies, history, indigenous studies, law, literature, media studies, medicine, nursing, organisation theory, philosophy, politics, and psychology.