Curriculum Theory Project 2026 Events

November 03, 2026

Fall 2026

AERA Annual Brown Lecture in Education Research

Thursday, November 5, 2026
6:00 PM ET 
Virtual Livestream

Join AERA for the 2026 Annual Brown Lecture in Education Research, featuring Daniel Solorzano, professor of social science and comparative education and Chicana/o and Central American studies at the University of California, Los Angeles, and director of UCLA’s Center for Critical Race Studies in Education.

The lecture will be presented before a small, invited in-person audience and livestreamed for the public. Registration information for the free livestream is coming soon. In the meantime, mark your calendar and plan to join us for this timely and important event!


AERA Division B, Curriculum Currents

Submissions to the AERA Graduate Student Council Newsletter - Due November 9.
2026–2027 Division B Awards Nominations - Due November 15


CTP Lecture Series: Dr. Limarys Caraballo 

Thursday, November 12, 2026
6:00 - 7:30 PM CST
Zoom Link: https://tinyurl.com/2rvzrn4m

Centering the Self-in-Context in Curriculum and Pedagogy: Toward a Relational Stance for Our Students

How do our own experiences, assumptions, and identities shape the way we teach, learn, and understand curriculum? In this Curriculum Theory Project Lecture Series session, Dr. Limarys Caraballo of Teachers College, Columbia University, will invite participants to reflect on the self-in-context and consider how relational approaches to education can foster critical hope, collective agency, and stronger connections across educational communities.


CTP Coffee & Conversation

Tuesday, November 17, 2026
3:00 - 4:15 PM CST
225 Peabody Hall

Join us for our next Coffee & Conversation, featuring Dr. Tamara Empson and Dr. Mahannah El-Farrah.

In this session, our speakers will share their dissertation research, exploring students' experiences with late-identified dyslexia and elementary preservice teachers' understanding of number theory concepts. This is a wonderful opportunity to learn about their work, exchange ideas, and engage in meaningful conversations with our CTP community.

Everyone is welcome, so feel free to join us and invite a friend or colleague who may be interested.


Author Book Talk with Scott Goldstein

Tuesday, November 17, 2026
5:00 - 6:30 PM CST
1270 Huey P. Long Field House

Human-Centered Schools: A Roadmap to Sustainable School Progress

What makes school improvement sustainable? Join educator, advocate, and education policy expert Scott Goldstein for a conversation about the importance of human relationships in creating lasting change in education. Drawing on twenty years of classroom teaching and policy work, Goldstein will discuss how stronger connections among teachers, students, families, and communities can support meaningful school progress. A Q&A session will follow the talk.


Call for Papers, Bank Street Occasional Paper Series #58
Submissions Due: December 1, 2026

“Freedom is a Daily Practice"

Guest Editors: Mayida Zaal, Patricia Krueger-Henney, and Carla Shalaby

We are now accepting submissions for Issue #58 of the Bank Street Occasional Paper Series. This issue, "Freedom is a Daily Practice," invites educators, researchers, artists, caregivers, activists, students, and community members to explore how people cultivate and sustain freedom through everyday acts of care, creativity, resistance, healing, and collective learning.

Inspired by critical human geographer Ruthie Gilmore's assertion that "freedom is a place that means we make it, and we make it again," this special issue seeks contributions that examine the small but intentional practices through which individuals and communities nurture belonging, preserve cultural knowledge, support one another, and imagine more just futures.

Through this theme, we hope to highlight the everyday practices through which people and communities preserve cultural knowledge, support one another, and imagine more livable futures. We welcome a wide range of submissions—including narratives, essays, research, photo essays, audio essays, short films, and creative works—that document, reflect on, analyze, or represent these everyday acts of possibility and collective care.

Call for Proposals - Motherscholars of Color on Knowledge, Care, and Creating Otherwise

We invite proposals that center the brilliance, care, and leadership of motherscholars of color across disciplines and communities. Together we are building a table where our knowledge, care, and futures thrive 

Abstracts Due: December 15, 2026

Spring 2027

Curriculum Camp 2027

February 19 - 20


Call for Papers - Society for the Study of Curriculum History

April 13 - 14, 2027
Toronto, CAN

Curriculum Camp is organized by the Curriculum Theory Project and Curriculum Theory Graduate Student Collaborative. Curriculum Camp is designed to showcase the work of graduate students in the broad fields of curriculum theory, curriculum studies, and education. Each year, Curriculum Camp features papers and round tables/panels presented by graduate students on a range of topics: curriculum theory, gender, race, culture, higher education research (K-20), policy analysis, political and/or intellectual thought (including but not limited to narrative inquiry, feminism, postmodernism and poststructuralism, queer theory, new materialism, chaos theory & complexity theory, etc).

Proposal Submission Guidelines

Proposal submissions consist of a 500-word maximum summary on a host of subjects, such as, curriculum theory; gender, race & culture studies; human resource management; higher education research; policy analysis; political and/or intellectual thought (including but not limited to narrative inquiry and feminism, post-colonialism, poststructuralism, postmodernism, posthumanism, new materialism, queer theory, chaos & complexity theory, and content-area specific research). Submission of a proposal is a professional commitment to present at the conference.

Potential Submission can be:

  • Complete Research for panels
  • Concept Papers
  • Data Gathering Stage
  • Paper Proposals
  • Emerging Ideas/Work in Progress
  • Conceptualizing Research
  • Research in Progress
  • Theoretical Papers

Priority submissions will be considered when submitted by January 24, 2027. Kindly ensure that your proposal is submitted by January 31, 2027 to be considered for regular submission. To submit your proposal, please click on the following link: https://forms.gle/ZypKXNnuzvrKLMCp8  

Notifications regarding proposal acceptance will be sent via email by February 5, 2027. Additionally, all participants are requested to register for the conference by February 12, 2027. ​

 

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