Foundation For Curriculum Theory Inc

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Adjunct / Independent Scholar / Unwaged/ Retired

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K-12 Teacher / Community Educator

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Curriculum in a World of Borders: Engaging Decolonial Struggles and Confronting Imperial LegaciesAt the 2026 Bergamo Conference, we invite curriculum theorists, educators, and scholars to confront the ways curriculum operates within&mdash;and against&mdash;a world increasingly organized through borders: geopolitical, epistemic, racialized, and institutional. These borders are neither accidental nor neutral. They are the living residues of imperial histories and the active instruments of contemporary governance, enforcement, and exclusion.Curriculum theory has long claimed a critical relationship to power, knowledge, and emancipation. Yet this moment demands renewed scrutiny of our own habits of thought and practice. As Edward W. Said reminds us, intellectual life is most endangered not by overt repression, but by the internalization of caution&mdash;by the quiet avoidance of principled positions in the name of balance, objectivity, or professional safety. In the face of profound injustice, neutrality does not function as distance; it functions as complicity.Reflecting on this charge that the intellectual must resist the temptation to look away&mdash;to refuse the comforts of moderation when truth demands clarity, and to speak even when doing so invites discomfort, controversy, or risk. In a time marked by the militarization of borders, the expansion of federal enforcement regimes, and the reassertion of imperial logics under new names, curriculum theory must ask itself difficult questions about its own location, silences, and possibilities.

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Curriculum in a World of Borders: Engaging Decolonial Struggles and Confronting Imperial LegaciesAt the 2026 Bergamo Conference, we invite curriculum theorists, educators, and scholars to confront the ways curriculum operates within—and against—a world increasingly organized through borders: geopolitical, epistemic, racialized, and institutional. These borders are neither accidental nor neutral. They are the living residues of imperial histories and the active instruments of contemporary governance, enforcement, and exclusion.Curriculum theory has long claimed a critical relationship to power, knowledge, and emancipation. Yet this moment demands renewed scrutiny of our own habits of thought and practice. As Edward W. Said reminds us, intellectual life is most endangered not by overt repression, but by the internalization of caution—by the quiet avoidance of principled positions in the name of balance, objectivity, or professional safety. In the face of profound injustice, neutrality does not function as distance; it functions as complicity.Reflecting on this charge that the intellectual must resist the temptation to look away—to refuse the comforts of moderation when truth demands clarity, and to speak even when doing so invites discomfort, controversy, or risk. In a time marked by the militarization of borders, the expansion of federal enforcement regimes, and the reassertion of imperial logics under new names, curriculum theory must ask itself difficult questions about its own location, silences, and possibilities.

2026 Bergamo Conference

Foundation For Curriculum Theory Inc

2026 Bergamo Conference

4400 Shakertown Rd

Student (Undergraduate or Graduate)- Early Bird

$150

Student (Undergraduate or Graduate)

$200

Adjunct / Independent Scholar / Unwaged/ Retired- Early Bird

$175

Adjunct / Independent Scholar / Unwaged/ Retired

$225

K-12 Teacher / Community Educator- Early Bird

$200

K-12 Teacher / Community Educator

$250

Early Career Faculty/Postdoc/NonProfit Affiliate- Early Bird

$225

Early Career Faculty / Postdoc / Non-Profit Affiliate

$275

Tenured Faculty / Mid-Level Professional- Early Bird

$250

Tenured Faculty / Mid-Level Professional

$300

Administrator / High-Income Attendee- Early Bird

$300

Administrator / High-Income Attendee

$400

Virtual Conference Only- February 21, 2027

$300

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