Several participants brought the Berks into the twenty-first century by live-tweeting sessions, using the hash tags #Berks2011 and #bigberks. Cliotropic has archived his tweets from the session “Teaching the Archives” and the “Feminist Legal History” roundtable. Daily updates and final wrap ups were posted by Scattered & Random, Jliedl (Thursday and Saturday), Tenured Radical (Friday and Sunday), and Knitting Clio (Friday and a post-conference wrap up). Although Historiann herself was very unfortunately not able to attend, her reliable correspondent, Classy Claude, filed a report on her behalf. Classy Claude and Another Damned Medievalist issue pleas for better time management.

And, too late for 2011 but keep in mind for 2014, check out Tenure Radical’s “What to do, what do see, what to wear.”

This space is dedicated to sharing new perspectives stirred by the Berks “Generations” conference that have the potential to change our practices as thinkers, scholars, students, teachers, and activists.

What did you learn from your conference experience? Will it lead you to teach differently? To see the world in new ways?  To act in the world differently?

Please share your conference and post-conference experiences with the Berks community by posting a comment in the comment box below.  We imagine this as the beginning of an ongoing conversation that will take us from this Big Berks conference to the next. Depending on the volume, we will post all responses in the order they are received.  Posts can be identified by first name only if you wish.