Discounted New Haven Conference Booking Deadline Approaching

The deadline for discounted booking at the upcoming SOF Conference in New Haven is approaching quickly. Anyone booking on or before August 17 will save $25 on the conference registration fee and even more than that on hotel rooms being held at the Omni, the conference venue.

(For a full update on SOF conference news, as of November 6, 2025, with the conference schedule, brochure, and other information, please click here.)

“It’s a real deadline,” said Conference Chair Don Rubin. “If people are waiting to the last minute, I hope they will think of Aug. 17 as exactly that. Yes, it may still be possible to book after that date but it will cost more and we really can’t guarantee that rooms will be available at all after that date.”

“The fact is we have to make guarantees to the hotel on August 17,” he continued, “so we offer that discount to encourage people to get their registrations in by then. The next day, the hotel takes back any rooms we haven’t booked. That means people will have to go to the hotel website and book at whatever the hotel’s higher regular rate is at that time.”

To register, click here: https://shakespeareoxfordfellowship.org/new-haven-conference-registration-now-open/

Conference-goers should also note that Day Rates for people only able to attend specific days will be available in early August on the registration site as will be booking for the conference Livestream which will be broadcasting each of the 20 or so conference papers.

The full conference schedule will be posted on the website about 1 August.

 

2025 Conference Presentations (an advance peek):

 

Thursday, 18 September. 1 to 5:30 p.m.

 

Bob Meyers and Rick Waugaman — “Prophets Without Honor” (by video)

Brent Evans — “Was Delia Bacon Mad?”

Sean Phillips — “Decrypting de Vere”

Matt Hutchinson — “Did Mary Sidney Suppress de Vere’s Authorship of Venus and Adonis?                                                                                                                                                         (video)

Joella Werlin — “Shake-speare Foolery: Mary Sidney Herbert and Mary Wroth”

Patricia Keeney — “Edward de Vere and the Mythical Mind”

 

Friday, 19 September. 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.

 

Shelly Maycock — “Charlotte Armstrong’s Solution to the Folio Epigram”

William S. Niederkorn — “Bombshells from Miranda to Mistress Quickly”

Rima Greenhill — “The Daughter of the Russian Empire”

Sky Gilbert — “Shakespeare and the Women of the Intronati”

Lisa Quattrocki-Knight — “Comedies, Political Context and Theory of Mind”

Michael Delahoyde — “Oxford’s Backwords”

 

Saturday, 20 September. 9 a.m. to 5:15 p.m.

 

Elizabeth Waugaman — “The Role of Women in 1 Henry VI (video)

Cheryl Eagan-Donovan — “Shakespeare and Transphobia”

Earl Showerman — “Parallel Lives of Shakespeare’s Helena and Oxford’s Anne”

Bonner Miller Cutting — “Is There A Southampton Problem?”

John Hamill — “Penelope Rich Exposed By Marston as the Dark Lady”

Nic Panagopoulos — “The Socratic Component of Hamlet”

Robert Prechter — “Determining the True Female Pioneers”

Margo Anderson — “Nicholas Hilliard’s Shake-speare Portrait”

Dorothy Dickerman — “Shakespeare’s Sister: Mary de Vere”

Roger Stritmatter — “Shakespeare’s Women in the Audley End Annotations”

 

The Annual General Meeting of the SOF will take place this year on Sunday, 21 September from 10 to noon and will be available to members by Zoom. Details will be announced shortly before the meeting.

 

Other special events taking place during the conference will include walking tours of Yale University, Yale’s Beinecke Rare Book Library and Yale’s Center for British Art; and two authorship-related performances – a reading by Ron Destro (and special guest actors), and a one-woman cabaret by New York actress Carla Kisssane.

 

The SOF’s Annual Awards luncheon will be held on Saturday, 20 September.

[originally published July 3, 2025; updated November 8, 2025]