We are honored to welcome you to the 41st Narrative Conference of the International Society for the Study of Narrative (ISSN) in Aarhus from 4-6 June 2026. The Narrative Conference is an annual event that has been held at sites across the US, Canada, and Europe since 1986 and brings together scholars from all around the world who share an interest in the study of narrative.
The 2026 Narrative Conference is hosted by Narrative Research Lab & Centre for Fictionality Studies, Aarhus University.
All participants must register to become a member of the International Society for the Study of Narrative (ISSN)
We welcome proposals for papers and panels on all aspects of narrative in any genre, medium, period, discipline, and language.
Proposals for individual papers: Please provide the title and a 300-word abstract of the paper you are proposing; your name, institutional affiliation, email address, and 2-3 keywords; and a brief statement (no more than 100 words) about your work and your publications.
Proposals for panels: Please provide a 700-word description of the topic of the panel and of each panelist’s contribution; the title of the panel, the titles of the individual papers, and 2-3 keywords; and for each participant the name, institutional affiliation, email address, and a brief statement (no more than 100 words) about the person’s work and publications.
Feel free to suggest formats such as roundtables etc. Papers can be presented online or onsite. Please indicate what you expect.
Deadline for proposals: 1 December 2025
Please use the template and send proposals by email (in PDF or word) to narrative2026@gmail.com with the subject title: “Proposal”.
When your paper or panel is accepted, we will ask you to state whether your presentation will be onsite og online. After this point, it is not possible to make a change regarding your online/onsite participation, unless it is necessary due to an unforeseen incident (and you can only make such a change up until a month before the conference). This is due to the complex technical and physical requirements of the conference planning and that each conference room will have to be set up with different zoom licenses and equipment based on the participants' choices, and these cannot be changed last-minute.
