September 26-29 | Denver, CO
The Shakespeare Oxford Fellowship held its 2024 Annual Conference in Denver, Colorado, at the Hyatt Centric Hotel. All presentation sessions were livestreamed internationally.
We look forward to seeing you in New Haven, CT in September 2025!
REGISTER
In-person registration is closed.
We have reached capacity for in-person attendance in Denver. Please join us via Livestream!
Cancellation policy: We have committed to paying the hotel a minimum fee for booked rooms, food and catering and we will be assessed a penalty if we don’t meet that minimum. In order to best anticipate avoiding a penalty we will issue a full refund up to and including Aug 26. After Aug 26 we will issue a refund of whatever a registrant paid minus $99. That $99 will be applied to the Livestream so you will still be able to enjoy the event.
HAMLET
TICKETS
The Denver Center for the Performing Arts is putting on a production of Hamlet during our 2024 conference. The production is being directed by Chris Coleman, a signatory of the Shakespeare Authorship Coalition’s “Declaration of Reasonable Doubt.” Coleman, artistic director of the Denver Center for the Performing Arts’ acclaimed theatre company, will join our conference for a discussion the day after we see the show.
NOTE: Tickets for Hamlet can be booked on the SOF website only through August 28. After that date, bookings will have to be made through the theater itself (if tickets are still available). For more information and to purchase tickets, visit the DCPA website.
LIVESTREAM
Attend virtually! Watch the conference live on your computer or phone. Join us virtually from the comfort of your home (or wherever!).
The livestream registration fee is just $99 for the entire four-day event. Everyone purchasing the Livestream (as well as anyone attending in person) will be able to watch the presentations not only as they happen but for a period of 30 days afterward. So if you miss a paper or want to hear it again, you can just go back in!
SCHEDULE
Download the official program here, with abstracts & speaker bios!
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 26
11:30 – 1:00 SOF Registration desk opens at the Denver Hyatt Centric
1:00 Welcome: Conference Chair Tom Woosnam and President Earl Showerman
1:15 Tom Townsend – An Authorship 101 Presentation: “Finding Shakespeare from an Historical Perspective”
2:00 Shelly Maycock – “The 1604 Question” and more
2:30 Ron Roffel – “How the Physical Construction of the First Folio Provides Clues to the Identity of the Real Author of the Plays” (Video)
3:00 Refreshment Break
3:20 Lisa Quattrocki Knight – “A Theory of Mind Approach To Understanding The Sonnets”
4:05 David W. Richardson – “The Literary Battle In the First Published Works of Shakespeare”
4:50 Matt Hutchinson – “Penelope Rich as the Central Muse of the Elizabethan Sonnet Sequence” (Video)
6 – 7:30 Welcome Reception
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 27
9:45 Christopher Carolan – “A Comparable Pair” (Video)
10:30 Bonner Cutting – “Hiding in Plain Sight: Ben Jonson and the Editors of Shakespeare’s First Folio” (Video)
11:15 Refreshment Break
11:35 Roger Stritmatter – “Introducing the new Brief Chronicles Volume on Ben Jonson”
11:55 Daniel Cowan – “Edward de Vere and the Renaissance Art of Memory”
12:40 Lunch (on own)
2:40 Oxfordian Jeopardy! Host: Alex McNeil
3:10 Michael Dudley – “Something ‘Wicked’ This Way Comes: Towards a Meta-understanding of the Shakespeare Authorship Debate” (Video)
3:55 Jonathan S. Jackson — “The Moral and Spiritual Vision of Edward de Vere”
4:40 Sky Gilbert – “Shakespeare at Palazzo Te”
7:00 Hamlet at the Denver Performing Arts Center (tickets extra)
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 28
8:30 Annual Meeting of SOF (members only)
9:45 Refreshment Break
10:05 Dorothea Dickerman – “Upholding and Raising the Ancient and Most Honorable House: Elizabeth Trentham and What She Tells Us About Shakespeare”
10:50 Earl Showerman – “From Horestes to Hamlet: Topical Allegories Relevant to the Abdication and Execution of Mary, Queen of Scots”
11:35 “The Denver Hamlet:” A panel discussion about the production with Chris Coleman (director), Leann Torske (dramaturg) and Brian Vaughn (Claudius). Moderator: Don Rubin
12:35 Lunch (on own)
2:30 William S. Niederkorn – “Discoveries in A Secular Tour of The Tempest”
3:15 Rima Greenhill – “Oxford: His Russia”
4:00 Katherine Chiljan – “Oxford’s Religious Portraits”
4:45 Phoebe Nir – “Who is Michael Drayton’s Unnamed ‘vertuous friend’?”
SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 29
9:00 Ralph McDonald – “Bacon’s Hand, Oxford’s Drama”
9:30 Robert Prechter — “What Pieces, If Any, Did the Earl of Oxford Contribute to the Christopher Marlowe Canon?”
10:05 Cheryl Eagan-Donovan – “Katharine Eggar: A Forgotten Heroine”
10:45 Coffee break
11:05 Michael Delahoyde – “Nothing” (Video)
11:50 Roger Stritmatter – “Theatres and Theatricality in the Audley End Annotations”
12:35 Awards and Announcements
–Earl Showerman will announce the Tom Regnier Veritas Award
— Cheryl Eagan-Donovan will announce the 2024 Oxfordian of Year
— Bob Meyers will announce the location of the 2025 conference
1:00 Closing Banquet
End of Conference
LODGING
The conference will take place at the Hyatt Centric Hotel located at 1776 Champa St. in downtown Denver.
SOF has secured rooms for $239 per night plus tax for single and double occupancy. The special hotel rates are offered for up to two days before and/or after the conference
Click on this link to make reservations: SOF Annual Conference (hyatt.com)
SUPPORT
We are grateful for the sustained and faithful generosity of our members and donors. Please continue to support the work of the SOF! Donations are always welcome.
