2026
The Nonprofit Storytelling Conference is for people who raise money, communicate impact, and help donors care more deeply.
A conversation with Rinku Sen and Jennifer Hanh on messaging vs. narrative.
Connecting communicators, scholars, storytellers and activists working to build the world we wish existed.
This seminar is part of Narrare’s Narrative Studies Seminar series for Autumn 2026.
STORY is a global gathering of creators, leaders and change-makers working in a variety of industries to shift narratives and shape the future by telling stories that matter.
The Communications Network brings together communicators, storytellers, strategists, and community builders from foundations and nonprofits worldwide.
This seminar is part of Narrare’s Narrative Studies Seminar series for Autumn 2026.
The National Storytelling Network invites voices from across the globe to come together in celebration of story.
This lecture forms part of the international summer school The Ethics of Storytelling (20–23 July 2026), organised by the International Graduate Centre for the Study of Culture (GCSC), Justus Liebig University Giessen.
The workshop will feature four one-day workshops, as well as a keynote lecture by internationally renowned scholars.
The Association for Philosophy and Literature (APL) fosters a global intellectual community that encourages and advances scholarly research at the intersections of philosophical, literary, cultural, textual, visual, medial, art, and aesthetic theories.
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.
The Center for Narrative Research (CNR) initiates and coordinates interdisciplinary on narrative, narrativity and storytelling.
ARDIN Voices brings together inspiring guests from academia, industry, creative practice, and civil society to share ideas and spark conversations with our global community.
The Commission on Science and Literature brings together a large network of researchers from around the world with the aim of fostering interdisciplinary discussions on the intersections between science and literature.
A two-week workshop that offers faculty and advanced graduate students in any discipline the opportunity for an intensive study of core concepts and issues in narrative theory.
NarraScope is a conference that brings together the writers, developers, scholars, and players of interactive narrative.
This three-day international conference aims to explore the relationship between fiction and falsehood from a multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary perspective, including philosophy, literary history and theory, narratology, film and media studies, psychology, and cognitive science.
The Computational Models of Narrative (CMN) workshop series is dedicated to advancing the computationally-grounded scientific study of narrative, a crucial aspect of human experience used for communication, persuasion, explanation, and entertainment. theorize narrative grammar based on structuralist linguistics.
The 2026 Narrative Conference is hosted by Narrative Research Lab & Centre for Fictionality Studies, Aarhus University.
The research group “Suffering and Meliorism in Literature and the Philosophy of Literature” within the Centre of Excellence on Meliorist Philosophy of Suffering (MePhiS)
At frank x Montgomery, we examine that history, its duality and connect to contemporary lessons for change leaders today. Join us for this immersion and come back recharged.
ARDIN Voices brings together inspiring guests from academia, industry, creative practice, and civil society to share ideas and spark conversations with our global community.
Nanny Jolma & Anna Kuutsa: The afterlife of parliamentary storytelling in social media: The portability of narrative features in the Finnish border security debate.
The “Future Narratives Across Media” symposium seeks to initiate an interdisciplinary conversation on this future-oriented media-cultural climate.
Theme: Repairing… Restoring… Reconnecting… Through True Storytelling
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.
Join a dynamic mix of filmmakers, journalists, comedians, creative artists, scholars, and media leaders as we explore how civic storytelling and community power drives real-world impact. Hosted by the Center for Media & Social Impact.
From Speculation to Speculative Agency: The Intertwining of Speculative Worldbuilding and Interactive Game Mechanics in Digital Fantasy RPGs.
Award-winning historian and journalist Wil Haygood spent more than four years piecing together the story of what happened when America launched its war in Vietnam amidst historic racial clashes back in America.
2025
An interactive session for makers and thinkers to collaborate, connect, and spark new ideas.
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.
Theme: Hunting for Attention: Interactive Digital Storytelling in Fragmented Attention
The Communications Network is a vibrant, diverse, and dedicated community of over 3,000 communicators, storytellers, strategists, designers, researchers, producers, and community builders.
Theme: Limits of Narrative
Theme: Borders / DIALECTICS / Civility
Theme: Creativity, Story Experience, and Reflection
Theme: Narrative Theory: Foundations and Innovations
Project Narrative Summer Institute is a one-week course centered around narrative theory, through Ohio State University.
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.
Disparate Narrative Worlds: Crisis, Conflict & the Possibility of Hope.
The Narrative Power Summit (NPS), co-hosted by RadComms and ReFrame, is a transformative convening for social justice communicators and movement workers.
Boston University's annual narrative journalism conference.
2024
Theme: Perspectivity
Story Movements brings together people from the worlds of tech, comedy, media, activism, philanthropy, filmmaking, and more to share and examine how storytelling can impact the world and create social change.
Theme: Creating Change: Integrating Narrative Research and Storytelling Practice
2023
Theme: Rhythm, Speed, Path: Spatiotemporal Experiences in Narrative, Poetry, and Drama
Discussing various views on the role and presence of science and literature communication in a highly diversified world, including science diplomacy as it is connected with our questions for the past, the present and the future of the world in various ways.
Theme: Instrumental Narratives: Narrative Studies & the Storytelling Boom
Theme: Narrative, Linguistics, and Cognition: Interdisciplinary approaches to narrative and storyworld possible selves.
Theme: Narratives in the Public Sphere
2022
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.
Theme: Diversity and Inclusion in Literature and Media
Theme: Narrative and Personal & Social Transformation
Theme: In Real Life
2021
Story Movements examines platforms and genres of civic media storytelling through the lens of social justice and social inequality.
Theme: Extravaganza
2020
2019
Theme: Truth, Fiction, Illusion: Worlds and Experience
Story Movements examines platforms and genres of civic media storytelling through the lens of social justice and social inequality.
Theme: Space. Explore space in all of its different meanings
2018
Theme: ABCs of Narrative.
2017
Theme: Narrative and Narratology: Metamorphosing the Structures
Theme: Look Both Ways: Narrative and Metaphor in Education.
2016
A two-day dialogue bringing together more than 60 academics, funders, and activists who use or study storytelling in their work so they could share their knowledge and experiences.
Story Movements examines platforms and genres of civic media storytelling through the lens of contemporary struggles for social justice.
Theme: How Narrative Research Transforms People and Communities
Theme: Narrative and Metaphor in the Law
2015
Theme: Modelling Narrative across Borders.
2014
Theme: Narrative Knowing
2013
Theme: Emerging Vectors of Narratology: Towards Consolidation or Diversification?
2012
Theme: Life and Narrative.
Theme: Warring with Words: Narrative and Metaphor in Domestic and International Politics.
2011
Theme: Working with Stories: Narrative as a Meeting Place for Theory, Analysis and Practice.
2010
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.
Theme: Exploring the Narrative Landscape.
2008
Storying our World.
2007
2006
Theme: The Storied Nature of Human Experience: Fact and Fiction.
2005
2004
Theme: The Power of Story in a Postmodern World.
2003
2002
The inaugural Narrative Matters conference.
2001
2000
The second International Therapy and Community Work Conference was held in Adelaide, Australia.
1999
The first International Therapy and Community Work Conference was held in Adelaide, Australia.
1996
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.