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.
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Thursday, May 29 Friday, May 30 Saturday, May 31
12:00–2:00 p.m. CT– Lunch (on your own) 6:00–7:00 p.m. CT– Reception Sunday, June 1 **All receptions, meals, and social events will occur in the Hinman Room, 9th Floor*** |
Still need to register?
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.
Saturday Evening Guest Speaker Bio:
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.
