South Central Renaissance Conference

SCRC 2023

Program
Registration
Lodging
Transportation

April 27-29
UC Berkeley

This year, we will meet in-person at the University of California-Berkeley in historic Berkeley, California.

VENUE

Registration, panels, and plenaries will occur in the iconic International House: an historic “experiment” built in Spanish “Moorish” style in 1930. The building has a rich history: it advanced agendas for gender, racial, ethnic, and cultural diversity.

  • Classic view over Berkeley campus and town towards the Golden Gate Bridge and Marin.
  • The Cesar Chavez Student Center, at the south entrance to campus (and north entrance to Telegraph Avenue).
  • Sproul Plaza, staging area for free speech and protest.
  • The Hearst Mining Building
  • The BART station in downtown Berkeley provides easy connection to Oakland, San Jose, San Fransisco, and the entire Easy Bay.
  • The Class of 1877 Sundial.
  • Tudor-era architecture of the Normandy Village (aka Thornburg Village).
  • The Hargrove Music Building.
  • Vitality in motion at the Spice of Life Festival.
  • Berkeley is Berkeley.
  • Shucking garlic at Chez Panisse, a Michellin-starred originator of organic veggie-focused California cuisine.
  • First Peet’s Coffee location, on Vine St.; first store selling imported coffee beans; the ur-Starbucks.
  • Expanse of produce at the legendary Berkeley Bowl.
  • Another extraordinary pizza of the day served up at the Cheese Board Collective.
  • Mural including “The Diggers’ Song” in storied People’s Park.
  • The Free Speech Movement Café, connected to the Moffitt Library.
  • Sather Gate, opening to Sproul Plaza.
  • A view across north campus toward the stadium (right) and Berkeley Hills.
  • Lake Anza, Berkeley’s Tilden Park.
  • Sunset across Wildcat Canyon and Tilden Park, with Mount Tamalpais across the bay.
  • San Francisco, quickly and easily accessed from Berkeley by the BART rail.
    View from Potrero Hill – San Francisco, CA
  • Inside the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAMPFA).
  • Strawberry Creek, which rambles through the Berkeley campus.
  • Vendors along historic Telegraph Avenue.
  • Wheeler Hall, home of the Department of English.
  • The Berkeley Rose Garden, a public works project from the Great Depression era, adjacent to Cordonices Park.
  • Flora in the Africa region of the University of California Botanical Garden.
  • Within UC Berkeley’s spacious and ambient eucalyptus grove.
  • The Bancroft Library, UC Berkeley’s rare books library.
  • UC Berkeley’s Doe Library, home to 13.5 million books.
  • Students gathered in North Field facing the Doe Library.
  • A tyrannosaurus skeleton in the Life Sciences Building; inspired the T-Rex stairway scene in Jurassic Park.
  • An Archaeopteryx fossil in the Life Sciences Building.
  • The North Reading Room in UC Berkeley’s Doe Library.

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