Past Narrative Conferences
Communications | Digital + AI | Literature | Narrative Medicine | Narrative Therapy | Science | Storytelling
Communications
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.
Theme: Repairing… Restoring… Reconnecting… Through True Storytelling
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.
The Communications Network is a vibrant, diverse, and dedicated community of over 3,000 communicators, storytellers, strategists, designers, researchers, producers, and community builders.
The Narrative Power Summit (NPS), co-hosted by RadComms and ReFrame, is a transformative convening for social justice communicators and movement workers.
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.
Story Movements examines platforms and genres of civic media storytelling through the lens of social justice and social inequality.
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
Story Movements examines platforms and genres of civic media storytelling through the lens of contemporary struggles for social justice.
Digital + AI
ARDIN Voices brings together inspiring guests from academia, industry, creative practice, and civil society to share ideas and spark conversations with our global community.
NarraScope is a conference that brings together the writers, developers, scholars, and players of interactive narrative.
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.
ARDIN Voices brings together inspiring guests from academia, industry, creative practice, and civil society to share ideas and spark conversations with our global community.
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
Literature
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.
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.
Theme: Creativity, Story Experience, and Reflection
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.
Narrative Medicine
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.
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.
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.
Narrative Therapy
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.
An interactive session for makers and thinkers to collaborate, connect, and spark new ideas.
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: Emerging Vectors of Narratology: Towards Consolidation or Diversification?
The second International Therapy and Community Work Conference was held in Adelaide, Australia.
The first International Therapy and Community Work Conference was held in Adelaide, Australia.
Science
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.
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.
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.
Storytelling
The National Storytelling Network invites voices from across the globe to come together in celebration of story.
The workshop will feature four one-day workshops, as well as a keynote lecture by internationally renowned scholars.
Theme: Repairing… Restoring… Reconnecting… Through True Storytelling