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.
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.
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.
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.