GSEHD was tremendously represented by faculty, students, and alumni at the Journal of Curriculum Theorizing's 44th Annual Conference on Curriculum Theory and Classroom Practice at Bergamo.
- Dr. Sandra Vanderbilt presented a paper, "Won't You Be My Neighbor: Despair, Hope, and Fred Rogers," on a panel titled, Gratitude, Care, Community: dis/Ability Theorizing and Curricula of Presence. She also presented a paper titled, "Daisaku Ikeda and Poetics of Peace, Justice, and Value Creation as a Curriculum of Peacebuilding."
- In exciting news, Dr. Vanderbilt was nominated and selected as General Topics Editor for the Journal of Curriculum Theorizing.
- Dr. Brian Casemore was a respondent on two book panels: an all-conference panel titled, A Panel Discussion of Tom Poetter's book, Curriculum Fragments: A Currere Journey Through Life Processes (Routledge, 2025) and, along with GSEHD graduate Dr. James Burns, a panel titled, The Confessional and Sharing of Being in Curriculum Theorizing, focused on the recently published Curriculum as Confession: the Promise of Teaching for Selfhood and Truth (Routledge, 2025) by Christopher M. Cruz.
- Dr. Casemore also organized and facilitated a panel titled, Negotiating the Inner and Outer Dimensions of Dialogue in History, Theater, and Anti-racist Education, featuring the scholarship of alumni Liam Goff (master's, Curriculum and Instruction) and David Kongstvedt (master's, Curriculum and Instruction), and doctoral student Catherine Wigginton Greene (Curriculum and Instruction).
- Doctoral student Carola Goldenberg (Curriculum and Instruction) presented the paper, “The World Language Classroom as a Site of Exploration and Self-Formation: Subjective in the Encounter with Difficult Knowledge.”
- Alumnus Dr. Dowan McNair-Lee (Ed.D., Curriculum and Instruction) of the University of the District of Columbia presented two papers: “‘I Got on the 36 Bus with My Reglia On’: A Rumination on Place and Peace” and “Collective Black Feminist Currere as Experienced Through the Work of Salt-N-Pepa.”
- Alumna Dr. Rachel Talbert (Ed.D., Curriculum and Instruction) of Teachers College Columbia University presented the paper: “‘Manhatta is a Lenape Word’: Curricular Movement Toward and Away from Peace.”
- Dr. James Burns (Ed.D., Curriculum and Instruction) of the University of New Mexico presented the paper: “What Knowledge is of Most Worth? Reflection on Israel, Gaza, War, Truth, and the Banality of Evil.” Dr. Burns was also a respondent on an all-conference panel titled, Confabulating Complicated Conversation, A Panel Discussion of Susan Mayer’s Book: Practicing Pragmatism Through Progressive Pedagogies: A Philosophical Lens for Grounding Classroom Teaching and Research (Routledge, 2024).