This Congress aims at analyzing and discussing the notion of narrative identity, by fostering a fruitful dialogue between the Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences. We are particularly interested in contributions focusing on the ways in which the various Social Sciences have undergone a “Narrative Turn”; but we also welcome contributions that strongly value the philosophical, artistic and literary study of “narrative self-identity” in the sense that this creative strand of research constitutes a very rich laboratory of ideas where multiple possible worlds and selves are unceasingly explored and experimented.

Therefore we invite potential contributors not only to assess the impact of the “Narrative Turn” on the epistemological and methodological landscape of their disciplines but also to present specific empirical research illustrating the appropriation of such qualitative, narrative, and hermeneutic approach to social life. Both a sympathetic and a critical perspective on “narrativity” are most welcome, for one must consider in a balanced manner the promise and peril of understanding personhood and selfhood as narrative processes.

Please consider the following, non-exhaustive list of topics of interest:

• –  The ‘Narrative Turn’ within hermeneutics and phenomenology;
• –  Theoretical models of personhood and selfhood;
• –  Multi/inter-cultural contexts and trajectories;
• –  Biography, auto/hetero-biography and fiction;
• –  Memory, emotion and embodied cognition;
• –  Stories of Trauma, loss, and suffering;
• –  Gender, sex, love and narrative identities;
• –  Justice, law and political selves in narrative conflict;
• –  Ethics, religion, and spirituality;
• –  Storytelling, therapy and well-being;
• –  Art, literature, and performance;
• –  The epistemology and methodology of Social Sciences.