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.
Participation in the guest lecture is free of charge and open to everyone.
The workshop will feature four one-day workshops, as well as a keynote lecture by internationally renowned scholars.
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.
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. Proposals may focus on fiction in general, or on a specific historical period or cultural tradition. We also encourage studies of fictional works from various media (including video games, comics, film, and television series).
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.
More Details on the Universidad Complutense de Madrid website.
The 2026 Narrative Conference is hosted by Narrative Research Lab & Centre for Fictionality Studies, Aarhus University.
More information on the conference website.
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.
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.
Repairing… Restoring… Reconnecting… Through True Storytelling
We live in a world inundated with tweets, hot takes, and breaking news alerts that dominate our thoughts for a moment and our news cycles for a day or two. Such a scattershot media environment only increases the power of narrative. Narrative penetrates the heart of the subject and the hearts of the audience. Bits of news or information rarely change our perspective about the world or our place in it. Narrative nonfiction rarely fails to do so.
More details on the Boston University College of Communication website.
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
Join Project Narrative, the Department of African American and African Studies, and the Department of History for a hybrid event with Wil Haygood!
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.
Markus Laukkanen: News about future turmoil: how a hypothetical war is narrated on Finnish news-media websites
Theme: Process and Purpose
The Department of Narrative Arts is proud to present the second annual HCU Narrative Arts Conference.
Theme: Narrative and the Arts.
The Netherlands Winter School on Narrative is a joint initiative to bring together the next generation of narrative scholars and practitioners in responsible interdisciplinary work on narrative.
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.
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.
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
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?
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.
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.
Theme: 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.
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.
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
This interdisciplinary winter school invites researchers and practitioners from the humanities, behavioral, social, and technological sciences to take stock and reflect on their work.
Theme: Rhythm, Speed, Path: Spatiotemporal Experiences in Narrative, Poetry, and Drama
IGEL 2023 is co-located with the 7th conference of the European Narratology Network (ENN), and the final event of ELIT, the Empirical Study of Literature Training Network. Conference website and program.
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: Narrative, Linguistics, and Cognition: Interdisciplinary approaches to narrative and storyworld possible selves
The “narrative turn” in the social sciences has highlighted the need for specific methods that allow the systematic study of narrative experiencing from interdisciplinary perspectives.
Theme: Instrumental Narratives: Narrative Studies & the Storytelling Boom
Storytelling consultants are thriving in today’s storytelling economy, but where are narrative scholars? Do the professional analyzers and theorizers of narrative have a say in the current storytelling boom?
Theme: Narratives in the Public Sphere
Theme: Diversity and Inclusion in Literature and Media
Theme: Narrative and Personal & Social Transformation
Theme: In Real Life
At frank 2022 we explored the role of lived experience in driving lasting social change.
Story Movements examines platforms and genres of civic media storytelling through the lens of social justice and social inequality. From documentary film to comedy to the entertainment industry to creative storytelling activism and beyond, the convening examines and captures the current and future-looking moment in story-led demands for social change. Through talks, panels and discussions, the convening looks through the lens of contemporary themes of social inequality and injustice to ask and answer: What works?
How can genres of civic, justice-oriented storytelling work with one another?
frank is back for its seventh year, and at this gathering we’re going to play with your emotions. Or at least how you can intentionally use emotion in your work.
Theme: Truth, Fiction, Illusion: Worlds and Experience
Today’s authoritarian populism has returned us to questions of the fragility of truth. These questions have cast deep divisions in contemporary life. To what extent are such worlds themselves constituted through truths or fictions, through narratives?
Story Movements examines platforms and genres of civic media storytelling through the lens of social justice and social inequality. From documentary film to investigative journalism to virtual reality to community-shaped storytelling activism, the convening examines and captures the current and future-looking moment in story-led demands for social change. Through panels and discussions, the convening looks through the lens of contemporary themes of social inequality and injustice to ask and answer: “What works? How can genres of civic, justice-oriented storytelling work with one another?”
Theme: Space. Explore space in all of its different meanings
Theme: ABCs of Narrative.
The current booming interest for narrative or “story-telling” across academic disciplines and professional fields comes with the need for a better understanding and an interdisciplinary dialogue between the arts and humanities; the natural and computer sciences; and the behavioral, social, and health sciences.
Theme: Narrative and Narratology: Metamorphosing the Structures
Story Movements examines platforms and genres of civic media storytelling through the lens of contemporary struggles for social justice.
Theme: Modelling Narrative across Borders.
Theme: Emerging Vectors of Narratology: Towards Consolidation or Diversification?
Theme: Warring with Words: Narrative and Metaphor in Domestic and International Politics.
Theme: Working with Stories: Narrative as a Meeting Place for Theory, Analysis and Practice.
Theme: Exploring the Narrative Landscape.
Theme: The Storied Nature of Human Experience: Fact and Fiction.
Theme: The Power of Story in a Postmodern World.
Reflections and presentations from this conference were included in a special issue of the McGill Journal of Education and a two-part special issue of Interchange: A Quarterly Review of Education (Part 1 and Part 2).
