Little Berks 2025

Start time 2025-05-29 06:00
Finished Time 2025-06-01 10:00
Address 1710 Orrington Ave, Evanston, IL 60201
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Little Berks 2025 Schedule 

Hilton Orrington Hotel

Evanston, Illinois

May 29-June 1, 2025

 

Our weekend will include evening talks, a graduate student and early career scholar writing workshop, and open discussions of issues facing the organization and profession. Thursday current and former officers and trustees will meet to discuss the organization’s past and future planning, then members of the Berks will join Friday afternoon for a weekend of friendship, scholarship and connection. Saturday evening we will hear from Jeanne Theoharis about her new book, King of the North, a biography of Martin Luther King, Jr.

Thursday, May 29
6:00 p.m. CT – Welcome Reception
7:00 p.m. CT – Dinner
9:00 p.m. CT – Games & Social Time

Friday, May 30
8:00–9:30 a.m. CT– Breakfast
9:30 a.m.–12:00 p.m.CT – Meeting with Facilitators (James Room, 9th Floor and Hybrid)
12:00–2:00 p.m. CT– Lunch (on your own)
2:00–4:30 p.m. CT– Meeting with Facilitators (James Room, 9th Floor and Hybrid)
6:00 p.m. CT– Reception
7:00–9:00 p.m. CT– Dinner
9:00 p.m. CT – Games & Social Time

Saturday, May 31
8:30–10:00 a.m. CT– Breakfast
10:00 a.m.–12:00 p.m. CT– Breakout Groups (Meet in James Room; In-person only)

  • Big Berks: Rogers Room
  • Code of Conduct: Bonbright Room
  • Membership Drive, Online Presence and Community, and Fundraising: James Room
  • Institutional Programming: James Room
  • Early Career Scholars and Graduate Student Workshop: Marcy Board Room

12:00–2:00 p.m. CT– Lunch (on your own)
2:00–4:00 p.m. CT– Business Meeting (James Room, 9th Floor and Hybrid)

6:00–7:00 p.m. CT– Reception
7:00 p.m. CT– Dinner featuring Guest Speaker Jeanne Theoharis (In-person only)
9:00 p.m. CT– Games & Social Time

Sunday, June 1
7:00–8:00 a.m. CT– Trillium Walk
8:00–10:00 a.m. CT– Breakfast

**All receptions, meals, and social events will occur in the Hinman Room, 9th Floor***

 

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If you’d like to attend in person, please complete the registration form. Registration fees are $300 for fully employed folks and $150 for graduate students, contingent faculty and those on a fixed income. (Please note that the discounted hotel rate is no longer available.)

If you’d like to attend but can only join virtually (facilitated discussions and the business meeting), please register for Zoom access here.

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Saturday Evening Guest Speaker Bio:

Image of Dr. Jeanne Theoharis holding a copy of her book, King of the North: Martin Luther King Jr.'s Struggle Outside the South. Theoharis poses in a gallery with bright paintings in the background set against light colored walls. She is wearing glasses, a pink scarf, and black and white shirt with circular designs. Jeanne Theoharis is the author or co-author of thirteen books and numerous articles on the civil rights and Black Power movements and the contemporary politics of race in the United States. Her new book (coming out March 25, 2025) is King of the North: Martin Luther King Jr’s. Life of Struggle Outside the South.  Her biography The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks won a 2014 NAACP Image Award and the Letitia Woods Brown Award from the Association of Black Women Historians. The book was turned into a documentary directed by Johanna Hamilton and Yoruba Richen and executive produced by Soledad O’Brien now streaming on Peacock where she served as a consulting producer. The documentary was awarded a 2023 Peabody Award and a Television Academy Honor Award. Her book A More Beautiful and Terrible History: The Uses and Misuses of Civil Rights History won the 2018 Brooklyn Public Library Literary Prize for Nonfiction. Her work has appeared in the New York Times, Washington Post, MSNBC, The Nation, The Atlantic, The Intercept, Boston Review, and The Chronicle of Higher Education.