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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.
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.
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.
National Storytelling Conference
The National Storytelling Network invites voices from across the globe to come together in celebration of story.
frank2026 x Portland (Date TBD)
Connecting communicators, scholars, storytellers and activists working to build the world we wish existed. (Date TBD.)
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.
2026 ACLAR Conference
The Biennial Australasian Children’s Literature Association for Research conference.
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.
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 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 European Narratology Network Conference
The European Narratology Network conference is held every second year.
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).
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. 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).
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.
More Details on the Universidad Complutense de Madrid website.
41st Narrative Conference of the International Society for the Study of Narrative
The 2026 Narrative Conference is hosted by Narrative Research Lab & Centre for Fictionality Studies, Aarhus University.
More information on the conference website.
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
Märten Rattasepp – Narrative Design from Within and Without. Märten Rattasepp may be one of Estonia's most widely read writers; his ARDIN Voices talk will explore narrative design from both inside and outside the industry.
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
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.
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)
Project Narrative: Narrative as Medicine
Narrative as Medicine: When Telling a Story Changes the Body with Joshua M. Smyth.
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.
Story Movements
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.
Narrare’s Narrative Seminar Series: Nanna Numento
From Speculation to Speculative Agency: The Intertwining of Speculative Worldbuilding and Interactive Game Mechanics in Digital Fantasy RPGs
Project Narrative: The Vietnam War’s Lost Story
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.
Narrare’s Narrative Seminar Series: Markus Laukkanen
Markus Laukkanen: News about future turmoil: how a hypothetical war is narrated on Finnish news-media websites
Critical AI Theory Reading Group
Read the paper in advance, bring your own lunch and let’s talk theory.
Coeckelbergh, Mark. 2026. “Technofascism: AI, Big Tech, and the New Authoritarianism.” AI & SOCIETY, ahead of print, January 25.
2026 Netherlands Winter School on Narrative
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.
COP30
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
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.
Zip-Scene
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.
European Narratology Network Conference
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?
APL Conference
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.
Annual Conference of the International Society for the Empirical Study of Literature (IGEL)
Theme: Creativity, Story Experience, and Reflection
2025 Project Narrative Summer Institute
Theme: Narrative Theory: Foundations and Innovations
Project Narrative Summer Institute is a one-week course centered around narrative theory, through Ohio State University.
8th International Workshop on Computational Models of Narrative
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.
Narrative Matters
Theme: Disparate Narrative Worlds: Crisis, Conflict & the Possibility of Hope.