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Topic: Applied Narratology | Communications | Digital + AI | Literature | Narrative Medicine | Narrative Therapy | Science | Storytelling
Event Type: Conferences | Speaker Series + Seminars | Summer + Winter Schools
Location: Online or Hybrid | Europe | USA | Americas | Asia | Australia + Pacific | Africa
2026 Zip-Scene Conference on Immersive Storytelling Vol. 8
Zip-Scene scientific researchers, game professionals, programmers, artists, scholars and professionals from the fields of performing arts and game studies, as well as interactive storytellers, experience designers, narrative designers, VR professionals and philosophers and others concerned with the conference topics.
2026 ACLAR Conference
The Biennial Australasian Children’s Literature Association for Research conference.
The British Society for Literature and Science Annual Conference
The Royal Society is holding a one-day conference to explore themes of discourse between scientists and the public through a variety of media.
Post-2022 queer Russophone media spaces: A shattered past, an uncertain future
This seminar is part of Narrare’s Narrative Studies Seminar series for Autumn 2026.
2026 AANZCA Annual conference
AANZCA is a premier academic association that brings together researchers, students, and teachers from an array of communication disciplines to promote scholarship, inform social policy, and encourage progress in the broad field of media and communications.
2026 International Conference on Interactive Digital Storytelling
ICIDS 2026 is the leading global conference for researchers, designers, and practitioners working in the field of digital interactive narratives.
Journalismin horjuvat merkitykset: piittaamattomat tulkinnat ja tiedon ehtojen murros
This seminar is part of Narrare’s Narrative Studies Seminar series for Autumn 2026.
2027 Netherlands Winter School on Narrative
The Netherlands Winter School on Narrative offers a one-week course consisting of lectures and workshops on Narrative and Authority.
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.
2027 Annual Conference of the Association for Philosophy and 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.
2027 Narrative Matters
Narrative Matters is a series of biennial, interdisciplinary, and international conferences that bring together scholars and practitioners in the social sciences and the humanities to explore the narrative complexity of human life on multiple levels and in multiple domains.
2027 European Narratology Network Conference
The European Narratology Network conference is held every second year.
International Communication Association
The Annual ICA Conference is a five-day event, where an average of 3,000 in-person (and remote) scholars attend over 400 presentations representing the latest advances in the field of communication.
2027 Narrative Conference of the International Society for the Study of Narrative (ISSN)
The Narrative Conference is the annual conference of the International Society of the Study of Narrative (ISSN).
The narrative means, styles, and subject matters in Finnish graphic medicine zines
This seminar is part of Narrare’s Narrative Studies Seminar series for Autumn 2026.
Narrative in the World: Interdisciplinary Uses and Insights of Narrative Theory
This Project Narrative Founders’ Lecture will be given by Professor Erin James, University of Idaho.
2026 Contemporary Narrative Therapy Conference
An interactive session for makers and thinkers to collaborate, connect, and spark new ideas.
Nonprofit Storytelling Conference
The Nonprofit Storytelling Conference is for people who raise money, communicate impact, and help donors care more deeply.
Messages Win Moments, Narratives Organize Ideas
A conversation with Rinku Sen and Jennifer Hanh on messaging vs. narrative.
frank2026 x Portland
Connecting communicators, scholars, storytellers and activists working to build the world we wish existed.
Narrative Space: World-Building Across Media
This seminar is part of Narrare’s Narrative Studies Seminar series for Autumn 2026.
STORY
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.
ComNet26 San Diego
The Communications Network brings together communicators, storytellers, strategists, and community builders from foundations and nonprofits worldwide.
Factual narrative: its history, genres and uses
This seminar is part of Narrare’s Narrative Studies Seminar series for Autumn 2026.
National Storytelling Conference
The National Storytelling Network invites voices from across the globe to come together in celebration of story.
Lecture by Rita Charon: The Ethicality of Storytelling: Privacy, Confidentiality, and “Ownership” of Patients‘ Stories
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.
International Summer Workshop: The Ethics of Storytelling
The workshop will feature four one-day workshops, as well as a keynote lecture by internationally renowned scholars.
2026 Annual conference of the Association for Philosophy and 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.
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.
Prof. Dr. Ralf Schneider: Character Constellations and the ‘Multiple Character Scenario’ in Narrative Engagement
The Center for Narrative Research (CNR) initiates and coordinates interdisciplinary on narrative, narrativity and storytelling.
ARDIN Voices: The History of Story Generation in Digital Game with Prof. Youichiro Miyake
ARDIN Voices brings together inspiring guests from academia, industry, creative practice, and civil society to share ideas and spark conversations with our global community.
2026 CoSciLit biennial conference
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.
2026 Project Narrative Summer Institute
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 2026
NarraScope is a conference that brings together the writers, developers, scholars, and players of interactive narrative.
Fourth SIRFF/ASIFF International Congress
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.
9th International Workshop on Computational Models of Narrative (CMN’26)
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.
41st Narrative Conference of the International Society for the Study of Narrative (ISSN)
The 2026 Narrative Conference is hosted by Narrative Research Lab & Centre for Fictionality Studies, Aarhus University.
Narrare’s Narrative Seminar Series: Sari Kivistö et al.
The research group “Suffering and Meliorism in Literature and the Philosophy of Literature” within the Centre of Excellence on Meliorist Philosophy of Suffering (MePhiS)
frank2026 x Montgomery
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: Narrative design from Within and Without
ARDIN Voices brings together inspiring guests from academia, industry, creative practice, and civil society to share ideas and spark conversations with our global community.
Narrare’s Narrative Seminar Series: Nanny Jolma & Anna Kuutsa
Nanny Jolma & Anna Kuutsa: The afterlife of parliamentary storytelling in social media: The portability of narrative features in the Finnish border security debate.
Narrare’s Futures Across Media symposium
The “Future Narratives Across Media” symposium seeks to initiate an interdisciplinary conversation on this future-oriented media-cultural climate.
The Power of Narrative
Theme: Repairing… Restoring… Reconnecting… Through True Storytelling
Narrare’s Narrative Seminar Series: Annika Valtonen
Master Narratives and the ‘Ideal Immigrant Subject’: A Multimodal Narrative Positioning Approach (co-authored with Dorien Van De Mieroop & Melisa Stevanovic)