Barnard’s Center for Engaged Pedagogy is pleased to announce the 2026 Bold Conference: “Pedagogies of Connection and Friction.” This year’s Bold conference explores the relationships between two terms that appear at first as opposites: Connection and Friction. The roundtables, pedagogy circles, and workshops that make up this year’s conference invite us to consider how teaching and learning require both. We imagine these terms broadly: connecting with other people, connecting ideas to broader networks, coming up against productive resistance in our learning environments, and experiencing moments where this friction becomes so kinetic that it threatens to stall learning, among others. This year, we will explore how the processes of calibrating connection and friction makes learning and knowledge production possible.
View the conference program and registration information on the Center for Engaged Pedagogy’s website.
This annual event is open to students, faculty and staff from across the Barnard community. If you have any questions related to the Bold Conference, please email pedagogy@barnard.edu.
