Conferences in the Narrative Ecosystem
of the Storytelling Boom
Event: Conferences | Speaker Series + Seminars | Summer + Winter Schools
Location: Online or Hybrid | Europe | USA | Americas | Asia + Pacific
Discipline: Communications | Digital + AI | Literature | Science | Storytelling
The Communications Network brings together communicators, storytellers, strategists, and community builders from foundations and nonprofits worldwide.
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.
Connecting communicators, scholars, storytellers and activists working to build the world we wish existed.
The Nonprofit Storytelling Conference is for people who raise money, communicate impact, and help donors care more deeply.
An interactive session for makers and thinkers to collaborate, connect, and spark new ideas.
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.
The Royal Society is holding a one-day conference to explore themes of discourse between scientists and the public through a variety of media.
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.
ICIDS 2026 is the leading global conference for researchers, designers, and practitioners working in the field of digital interactive narratives.
The Netherlands Winter School on Narrative offers a one-week course consisting of lectures and workshops on Narrative and Authority.
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.
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.
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.
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.
The Narrative Conference is the annual conference of the International Society of the Study of Narrative (ISSN).
2025
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.
2022
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.
2017
Theme: Look Both Ways: Narrative and Metaphor in Education.
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.
2016
Theme: Narrative and Metaphor in the Law
Legal scholars and specialists from cognitive theory, journalism, rhetoric, social psychology, criminology, and legal activism explored how narrative and metaphor are both vital to the legal process.
2010
Theme: Binocular Vision: Narrative and Metaphor in Medicine
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.
2004
1999
The first International Therapy and Community Work Conference was held in Adelaide, Australia.
1996
Theme: Narrative and Metaphor across the Disciplines.
Convened contributors from architecture, dance, economics, education, environmental studies, history, indigenous studies, law, literature, media studies, medicine, nursing, organisation theory, philosophy, politics, and psychology.