More than 200 people have already signed up for the Shakespeare Oxford Fellowship’s next online symposium (announced Feb. 26). Join the fun! It’s free and open to anyone who registers. The four-hour Zoom webinar starts at 12:00 noon (Eastern Daylight Time) and will conclude with a special award presentation. Steven Sabel’s interview with Dr. Earl Showerman on the March 17 podcast episode of “Don’t Quill the Messenger” previews the exciting international cast of featured scholars.
You may go directly to the “Register” link below, but for full information we recommend that you check out the main symposium page. See also the related Spring Fundraising Appeal.
INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM
The Shakespeare Attribution: Information, Misinformation, and Changing Opinions
The symposium honors the April 12, 1550, birthday of Edward de Vere (Oxford), the man behind the mask of “Shakespeare.” Please note on your calendar that the symposium itself is on Saturday, April 10. Free Zoom software is necessary to participate.
The co-hosts are filmmaker Cheryl Eagan-Donovan, M.F.A., and SOF Secretary Earl Showerman, M.D. The unifying theme is the problematic reception of the authorship question by the academy and the public. As expressed by Michael Dudley: “The Shakespeare Authorship Question — the proposition that these plays and poems have for centuries been attributed to the wrong person — is treated with unique disapprobation in the academy, almost universally excluded from scholarly curricula and inquiry.”
Scheduled speakers, in order of appearance:
- Kevin Gilvary, Ph.D. (President of the U.K.’s De Vere Society and 2011 Oxfordian of the Year)
- James A. Warren (retired diplomat and 2020 Oxfordian of the Year)
- Michael Dudley, M.L.I.S., M.C.P. (Community Outreach Librarian at the University of Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada)
- Julia Cleave, M.A. (Oxford) (Trustee of the U.K.’s Shakespearean Authorship Trust and Fellow of the Temenos Academy)
- Professor Roger Stritmatter, Ph.D. (Shakespearean scholar and 2013 Oxfordian of the Year)
- Dorothea Dickerman, J.D. (retired attorney and Oxfordian researcher)
- Cheryl Eagan-Donovan, M.F.A. (film director, writer, lecturer, and 2019 Oxfordian of the Year)
Again, for full information, please go to the main symposium page. Information on all persons honored as Oxfordian of the Year is available here.
