The Netherlands Winter School on Narrative
January 20-24, Groningen, Netherlands
Theme: Narrative and the Mind. 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. More.

The Power of Narrative Conference
March 28-29, Boston, MA USA
Boston University's annual narrative journalism conference. More.

Narrative Conference of the International Society for the Study of Narrative (ISSN)
April 2-6, Miami, FL USA
Conference website and program.

Narrative Power Summit
May 7-10, New Orleans, LA USA
The Narrative Power Summit (NPS), co-hosted by RadComms and ReFrame, is a transformative convening for social justice communicators and movement workers. More.

Narrative Matters
May 13-16, The American University of Paris and Université Paris Cité, Paris, France
Theme: Disparate Narrative Worlds: Crisis, Conflict & the Possibility of Hope. Conference website.

8th International Workshop on Computational Models of Narrative
May 28-30, Geneva, Switzerland
The 2025 Computational Models of Narrative workshop series was dedicated to advancing the computationally-grounded scientific study of narrative, a crucial aspect of human experience used for communication, persuasion, explanation, and entertainment. More.

Annual Conference of the International Society for the Empirical Study of Literature (IGEL)
June 5-6, Austin, TX, USA
Theme: Creativity, Story Experience, and Reflection. Conference website and program.

2025 Project Narrative Summer Institute
June 2-13, online
Theme: Narrative Theory: Foundations and Innovations. Project Narrative Summer Institute is a one-week course centered around narrative theory, through Ohio State University. Learn more.

APL Conference
August 20-22, Frankfurt, Germany
Theme: Borders / DIALECTICS / Civility. Amidst the clamor for walls and fences and the host of anti-gay and anti-trans legislation being passed throughout parts of the United States and Europe, with civic life becoming increasingly gentrified and the borders between the haves and the have-nots and between the Global North and the Global South wider than they have previously been, with the space between the literary and mere “content production” (or between authority and mere opinion) paradoxically ossifying in the process of dissolving, this call for papers asks after the ways philosophy and literature interlink in coming to terms with these problems. Conference website.

European Narratology Network Conference
September 29 - October 1, Wuppertal, Germany
Theme: Limits of Narrative.In view of the rampant use of the term ‘narrative’, which often enough lacks a precise meaning, it is time to take a critical look at its limits. Which phenomena cannot be appropriately labeled as 'narrative'? What are legitimate and illegitimate uses of narrative? More.

Zip-Scene
October 23-25, Prague, Czech Republic
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. More.

Synthetic Narratives
October 25-26, Hoboken, NJ USA
Synthetic Narratives convened leading artists, technologists, and philosophers to ask what storytelling looks like when the line between human and machine authorship begins to blur. More.

COP30
November 29, online
Theme: Climate Change: Stories from the Front Line. An online symposium examining how stories themselves, of all kinds, can contribute to our understanding of climate change and to the struggle to make our societies more sustainable. More.