September 26-29 | Denver, CO
The Shakespeare Oxford Fellowship will hold its 2024 Annual Conference in Denver, Colorado, 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. These prices will also apply to September 25. See full details on lodging.
The event meeting room we will be using for the conference presentations is smaller than ones we’ve used previously, so seating is limited and we will have to turn people away once we hit full capacity so don’t delay – register and book your lodging today.
The conference will be livestreamed. Livestream registration will be available soon.
REGISTER
REGISTER EARLY – SPACE IS LIMITED
Full conference registration includes attendance at all presentations.
SOF members – $250 if registering by August 26 (price goes up to $275 after that date)
Non-members – $275 if registering by August 26 (price goes up to $300 after that date)
We will not be offering daily rates until after August 26.
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.
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
(Subject to change)
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 9
Session One
11:30 – 1 SOF registration desk opens at Hyatt Centric French Quarter
1:00-1:10 Opening of Session. Host Don Rubin, Conference Chair
Overview and Announcements
Welcome: Earl Showerman, President
1:10-1:50 Tom Townsend: “Finding the True Shakespeare – a Historical Perspective”
An Authorship 101 Introduction
1:50-2:20 Paul Chambers: “Employing Mathematics to Identify the Real Shakespeare”
2:20-2:50 Ralph McDonald: “The Shakespeare Brand of 1623: Why a rose by any other name smells not as sweet”
2:50-3:30 Guy Sprung: “Shakespeare and the Theatre: An Actor Prepares”
Edited for this conference with a brief introduction by Don Rubin.
3:30 Break for City Tour and Dinner Cruise
4:00-6:30 City Tour Pick-up (drop off at dock at 6:30)
7:00-9:00 Jazz Dinner Cruise Reception on the Mississippi River
The group will board the paddle wheeler Creole Queen for a two-hour Mississippi River cruise. The cruise will feature a jazz band and an old-fashioned New Orleans Creole buffet dinner. Following the cruise, buses will return to the hotels.
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 10
Session Two
Host: Dorothea Dickerman
9:30- 9:35 Welcome and Announcements
9:35-10:10 Lyle Jennings Colombo: “Two First Folio Poems and Three Other Texts Encrypted by John Dee”
10:10-10:55 Gabriel Ready: “Ben Jonson’s Desk Fire in November 1623”
10:55-11:35 Keynote Speech
11:35-11:50 Refreshment Break
11:50-12:50 Don Rubin: Panel “Publishing on the Authorship: Real Life Experiences”
Panelists: Margo Anderson, Ros Barber, Jim Warren
12:50 to 1:10 Book signing for all authors of authorship books in NOLA
1:10-2:40 Buffet Lunch (included for all registrants)
Session Three
Host: Tom Woosnam
2:40-3:25 William Niederkorn: Venus and Adonis and the Authorship Question
3:25-4:00 James A. Warren: “Words, Words, Words: A More Accurate Understanding of Edward de Vere as Shakespeare”
4:00-4:45 Rima Greenhill: “Shakespeare, Elizabeth and Ivan: The Role of English-Russian Relations in Love’s Labours Lost”
4:45-5:00 Refreshment Break
5:00-5:45 John Hamill and John Shahan: ” “Challenging the Prince Tudor Theory”
James Warren has asserted that the Prince Tudor theory is the only explanation “weighty enough” to account for the long-term concealment of Oxfords’s authorship of the works of Shakespeare. Shahan and Hamill argue otherwise. James Warren will be given time to respond. An open-ended debate.
Dinner On Own
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 11
9:00-10:30 Annual General Meeting (SOF Members Only)
Session Four
Host: Bob Meyers
10:30-10:40 Earl Showerman: Informal report on the SOF Annual General Meeting
10:40-11:20 Cheryl Eagan-Donovan and Michael Delahoyde:”Music and Lyrics by E.O.”
11:20-12:05 Ros Barber: A Thousand Questions Reduced to One: How to Win the Authorship Argument ”
12:15-1:45 Lunch
Session Five
Host: Bonner Cutting
1:45-2:30 Delahoyde, Michael: “Slanders About Nothing in Much Ado”
2:30-3:00 Elisabeth P. Waugaman: “Shakespeare’s French Obsession:
How New Historicism Can Help Advance the Authorship Debate” (Video)
3:00-3:50 Robert Prechter: “Was the Earl of Oxford Bisexual?”
3:50- 4:05 Refreshment Break
4:05-4:55 Rick Waugaman: “The Origins of Modern Literary Theory in the Repudiation of Autobiographical Readings of Shakespeare’s Sonnets” (Video)
4:55-5:30 Earl Showerman: “Hamlet’s Book Revisited: The Identity of the ‘Satiric Rogue’ Revealed”
Dinner On Own
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 12
Session Six
Host: SOF President Earl Showerman
9:45-10:15 Michael Dudley: “By the Rule of That Philosophy: Validating the Oxfordian Thesis Using Theories of Knowledge,
Justification and Truth” (pre-recorded)
10:15- 11:00 Sky Gilbert: “Shakespeare’s Epistemology and the Problem of Truth”
11:00-11:40 Dorothea Dickerman: “Shakespeare in Sicily: The First Thing We Do, Let’s Convince All the Lawyers”
Part II of “Traveling Together Through Shakespeare’s Italy”
11:40-12:25 Roger Stritmatter: “From Literary Encryptions to Handwriting”
12:30 – 2:00 Closing Banquet (included for all registrants)
Awards: Oxfordian of Year. Announcements of 2024 conference
Please note, all times mentioned are tentative. A final conference program will be announced closer to the date.
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. These prices will also apply to September 25.
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.
