Narrative Conferences
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Applied Narratology | Communications | Digital + AI | Literature | Narrative Medicine | Narrative Therapy | Science | Storytelling
ComNet26 San Diego
The Communications Network brings together communicators, storytellers, strategists, and community builders from foundations and nonprofits worldwide.
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.
frank2026 x Portland
Connecting communicators, scholars, storytellers and activists working to build the world we wish existed.
Nonprofit Storytelling Conference
The Nonprofit Storytelling Conference is for people who raise money, communicate impact, and help donors care more deeply.
2026 Contemporary Narrative Therapy Conference
An interactive session for makers and thinkers to collaborate, connect, and spark new ideas.
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.
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 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.
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).
National Storytelling Conference
The National Storytelling Network invites voices from across the globe to come together in celebration of story.
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.
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.
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.
The Power of Narrative
Theme: Repairing… Restoring… Reconnecting… Through True Storytelling
2026 Narrative Arts Conference
Theme: Process and Purpose
The Department of Narrative Arts is proud to present the second annual HCU Narrative Arts Conference.
2025 Contemporary Narrative Therapy Conference
An interactive session for makers and thinkers to collaborate, connect, and spark new ideas.
Zip-Scene Vol. 7
Theme: Hunting for Attention: Interactive Digital Storytelling in Fragmented Attention
ComNet25 Denver
The Communications Network is a vibrant, diverse, and dedicated community of over 3,000 communicators, storytellers, strategists, designers, researchers, producers, and community builders.
Story Movements 2016
Story Movements examines platforms and genres of civic media storytelling through the lens of contemporary struggles for social justice.
10th International Narrative Therapy and Community Work Conference
10th International Narrative Therapy and Community Work Conference
in collaboration with Núcleo de Estudos das Terapias
Two keynotes from the conference were published in International Journal of Narrative Therapy and Community Work:
Keys to a subjugated story: My favourite narrative therapy questions by Marta Campillo
Anti-individualist narrative practice: Listening to the echoes of cultural histories by Stephen Madigan
More information about the International Narrative Therapy and Community Work conferences.
Narrative/Metaphor Nexus Project
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.
2nd International Narrative Therapy and Community Work Conference
The second International Therapy and Community Work Conference was held in Adelaide, Australia.
International Narrative Therapy and Community Work Conference
The first International Therapy and Community Work Conference was held in Adelaide, Australia.