By encouraging complicated conversations, connections across differences, and crossings of borders, we make efforts to form a curriculum community in which dissent from the conventional and contestation with one's own perspectives are necessary for releasing creative imagination. We invite debates, dialogues, and diverse discourses, respecting alterity in all its forms and advocating for a nonviolent relationality.

From its beginning, the Bergamo Conference has carved out spaces for introducing youthful, alternative perspectives, nurturing the breaking of silenced voices, and generating fresh meanings. To move this important intellectual tradition forward, the conference invites you to participate in exploring new pathways, searching for new landscapes, and inviting new critical voices. Theorists/practitioners and practitioners/theorists, including teachers, students, scholars, administrators, cultural workers, from various standpoints and all walks of life, are invited to join in these dialogical encounters to bring vital energy into the educational life we share, in the spirit of dissensus and the ethos of becoming.

Engaging a curriculum of dissent and creativity, the conference features three keynotes speakers, with respondents, from divergent perspectives. The conference will also feature three diverse and dynamic conference sessions, nightly social and cultural events, paper sessions in languages other than English, and professional development opportunities for graduate students.