The 2026 AERA Annual Meeting theme—“Unforgetting Histories and Imagining Futures: Constructing a New Vision for Education Research”—“is an invitation to collectively reflect on how to leverage our disciplinary and methodological diversity in service of unforgetting histories.” Read AERA President Maisha T. Winn’s theme for the 2026 Annual Meeting here.

Site selection for the AERA Annual Meeting, which gathers more than 15,000 attendees each year, is undertaken with thorough consideration of multiple factors, including, but not limited to, geographic and cultural diversity, costs for attendees, available meeting space, and social justice record. Read more