South Central Renaissance Conference

SCRC 2023

LODGING

We are currently working to confirm conference lodging. Attendees are advised to wait to register until after our information is updated early the week of February 5. Thank you for your patience.

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.

Register now for SCRC 2023. ($20 late fee is added to registration after March 1.)
The city of Berkeley, with San Francisco across the Bay.
Sather Gate, opening to Sproul Plaza.
Alice Waters shucking garlic at Chez Panisse.
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.
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.
Sunset across the San Francisco Bay from Grizzly Peak in the Berkeley Hills; Golden Gate Bridge toward the right.
San Francisco, quickly and easily accessed from Berkeley by the BART rail.
View from Potrero Hill – San Francisco, CA
Swimming Pool within the Berkeley City Club, our lodging for the conference.
A courtyard at the Berkeley City Club.
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.
The International House, UC Berkeley.

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