ABSTRACT
More than any other curriculum conference held in Canada, the Provoking Curriculum (Studies) conference has created openings for intellectual experimentation and curriculum counter-culture through inviting spaces and plurality and generating intensities and charges. Drawing on a conversation with those responsible for provoking curriculum studies by way of the conference, this chapter traces the intellectual genealogy and memories of encounters of this biennial conference, this from its inception in 2003, and before. We interpolate quotes from our interlocutors and co-authors, tracing the conference’s antecedents in the Curriculum Canada symposia and the reconceptualization movement, its Aokian-provoking character and spirit, its contributions to enlivening the field of curriculum studies, and its genealogical legacy and future.
