Past Events

Steinbeck Spring Reading 2024

2023-2024 Steinbeck Fellows Francisco Gonzalez, Amanda Rizkalla, and Alexia Nader presented samples of their work on Tuesday, May 14th at 7 pm.

Steinbeck Fall Reading 2023

2023-2024 Steinbeck Fellows AJ Bermudez, Xueyou Wang, Itto Outini, and Mekiya Outini presented samples of their work on November 30, 2023 at 7pm.


Jane Fonda 2023 Steinbeck Award

On Wednesday, September 13 author and activist Jane Fonda received the 2023 Steinbeck Award during a Climate One program, live from the Herbst Theatre in San Francisco. Jane Fonda has spoken of the themes of Steinbeck’s Grapes of Wrath, and how they long ago instilled in her the need for justice, for freedom, for fairness, for equality. Steinbeck Award ceremony starts at 1 hour 4 minutes.


Woody is Just Woody Exhibit

This exhibit linked John Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath and its influence on folk singer Woody Guthrie. This interaction inspired a cultural revolution in American folk music during the 20th Century. The exhibit ran from April 22-August 25, 2023.


Steinbeck Spring Reading 2023

2022-2023 Steinbeck Fellows Vivian Ewing, Bobuq Sayed, and Reena Shah read on May 11, 2023.


Yves Lamson Presentation

On Monday, April 17, 2023 Author Yves Lamson visited the Steinbeck Center to discuss his novel Bodies of Water


"John Steinbeck in the 21st Century: Reading, Teaching, Translating"
San José State University, March 22-24, 2023

Three day international conference hosted by the Steinbeck Center that ran from Wednesday, March 22 to Friday, March 24.


Steinbeck Fall Reading 2022

2022-2023 Steinbeck Fellows Rose Annie Vy Trinh, Amanda Mei Kim, Meghana Mysore read on November 15, 2022.


2022 Steinbeck Award Recipient Jacqueline Woodson 

Together with the Martha Heasley Cox Center for Steinbeck Studies, the Center for Literary Arts was pleased to co-present the 2022 John Steinbeck "In the Souls of the People" Award on October 18, 2022. This year's honoree is acclaimed author Jacqueline Woodson, MacArthur "Genius" Fellow and author of Red at the Bone and Brown Girl Dreaming. During the event she will have an onstage conversation with Dr. Michele Elam, the William Robertson Coe Professor of Humanities in the English Department at Stanford University. The awards ceremony took place on Tuesday, October 18th at 7PM in the Student Union Theater.

 

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