INTERNATIONAL COMMITTEE

Divya Dwivedi (IIT Delhi)

Dorothee Birke (Universität Innsbruck)

Marco Caracciolo (Ghent University)

Kelly Marsh (Mississippi State University)

Henrik Zetterberg-Nielsen (Aarhus University)

LOCAL COMMITTEE 

Apurva, Sonam Chhomo, Divya Dwivedi, Florence Laldinpuii,

Nidhi Singh, Haidamteu Zeme

Submission Deadline: 15 January 2027

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The International Society for the Study of Narrative (ISSN) is a non-profit scholarly organization dedicated to the advancement of research about narratives and narrative theory. It seeks to foster diverse, equitable, sustainable research and research practices among academics, professionals, and independent scholars from around the world. For this purpose, the ISSN provides a range of theoretical, physical, and virtual spaces and platforms that enable and enhance collaboration and knowledge dissemination among a broad range of disciplines and backgrounds.

Read more about the ISSN Narrative Society, its official journal NARRATIVE (Johns Hopkins University Press / Ohio State University Press) and the previous Narrative Conferences here.

Indian Institute of Technology Delhi is one of the 23 IITs created to be Centres of Excellence for training, research and development in science, engineering and technology in India.

Established as College of Engineering in 1961, the Institute was later declared as an Institution of National Importance under the “Institutes of Technology (Amendment) Act, 1963” and was renamed as “Indian Institute of Technology Delhi”. It was then accorded the status of a Deemed University with powers to decide its own academic policy, to conduct its own examinations, and to award its own degrees.

Since its inception, over 60000 have graduated from IIT Delhi in various disciplines including Engineering, Physical Sciences, Management and Humanities & Social Sciences. IIITD alumni today work as scientists, technologists, business managers and entrepreneurs. There are several alumni who have moved away from their original disciplines and have taken to administrative services, active politics or are with NGOs. In doing so, they have contributed significantly to building of this nation, and to industrialization around the world.

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Delhi is a living city and a palimpsest. It accommodates the remains of over a thousand years of building in different states of preservation. Diverse historical, cultural and environmental exigencies have created and continuously shaped the city. 

Delhi's aura of a capital city goes back many centuries and its outstanding value stems from the fact that it was the capital of significant kingdoms and often sub-continental empires, which in many ways facilitated the development of a cultural synthesis that flowered into a sophisticated and mature form and in turn exerted an influence over a wide geographical area. 

The extension of its integrated culture was a result of cross fertilisation in the process of continuous development as a major centre of power, culture and learning in the medieval world. The result is the hybrid architectural styles and the syncretism of the intangible heritage, which are today closely identified with the city. Art, craft, religious practices and performing arts developed and were practiced and disseminated by the people influencing other cities within its regional context.