Events

 

Jack London Speaker Series at Jack London State Historic Park

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Jack London's Medicine Case: The Drugs He Used in His Life and Literature

Speaker: Richard Rocco

Thursday, August 6, 2026

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Jack London and Japan: Connections Across the Pacific

Speakers: Kagoshima Univerity Professors Takaharu Mori, Nagako Muto, and Kaoru Nishihara

Sunday, September 6, 2026

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Past events

Jack London Through the Eyes of His Great-Granddaughter Tarnel Abbott

Tarnel Abbott was interviewed by Gail Yamamoto Seymour

Saturday, June 13, 2026

Oh, Captain!
The Sea Captains That Inspired Jack London’s Writing and Wanderings

Talk by Aleta George
Friday, March 27, 2026

These events are co-hosted by Jack London Park Partners and the Jack London Society, honoring the 150th anniversary of Jack London’s birth. 

I conceived of and helped to collaborate the speaker series.

 

Past featured speaker presentations 

Association for Mormon Letters Annual Conference 2019; Berkeley Bird Festival; Berkeley Breakfast Club; Berkeley Historical Society (walk and talk); Berkeley Path Wanderers Association (walk); Book Club of California; Books Inc., Berkeley; Book Passage, San Francisco; California Questers; California Writers Club, Berkeley and Fremont; California Native Plant Society: East Bay, Milo-Baker, San Francisco, and Santa Cruz,; Huntington Library, San Marino; Jack London State Park; Jack London Symposium 2016; Ina Coolbrith Circle (ICC), 2008, 2010; ICC Poetry Contest Banquet 2015; Laurel Books; Lincoln Poetry Group; Litquake 2015 (group poetry reading of Coolbrith's poems); Mechanics Institute; McCune Rare Book and Art Collection; Oakland Museum of California; Oakland Public Library; Pardee House; Rianda House; San Francisco Browning Society; San Francisco History Association; San Francisco Museum & Historical Society; San Francisco Public Library, Main and Merced Branches; St. Helena Public Library; Shaping San Francisco; Society of California Pioneers Auxiliary; Swan's Books; Solano County Public Library; Solano County Library Assn., Writing Women Back into History Luncheon; Women's Museum of California, San Diego; and Zamorano Club, Los Angeles.

To book Aleta George as a speaker, contact her at aleta.george<at>gmail.com