The Shakespeare Oxford Fellowship Spring 2021 International Online Symposium was presented over Zoom on April 10, 2021.
This video includes the full Symposium. Individual videos are also available for each of the main talks.
Welcome and Introduction by Cheryl Eagan-Donovan and Dr. Earl Showerman
Kevin Gilvary, Ph.D. (President of the U.K.’s De Vere Society and 2011 Oxfordian of the Year) — 21st Century Fictional Biographies of Shakespeare
James A. Warren (retired diplomat and 2020 Oxfordian of the Year) — The Oxfordian Movement and Academia
Michael Dudley, M.L.I.S., M.C.P. (Community Outreach Librarian at the University of Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada) — The Stratfordian Belief System, Epistemic Injustice, and Academic Freedom
Julia Cleave, M.A. (Oxford University) — “Excellent. I smell a device.” Shakespeare, in three of his comedies, makes sport with a colourful cast of Queen Elizabeth’s actual suitors: English, French, Spanish, German, and Swedish
Professor Roger Stritmatter, Ph.D. (Shakespearean scholar and 2013 Oxfordian of the Year) — Witty Numbers: Ben Jonson’s First Folio Jest in Context
Dorothea Dickerman, J.D. — The First Thing We Do, Let’s Convince All the Lawyers
Cheryl Eagan-Donovan, M.F.A. (film director, writer, lecturer, and 2019 Oxfordian of the Year), Professor Stritmatter, and Dr. Gilvary — Manuscript Circulation and the Band of Brothers — Eagan-Donovan, director of the acclaimed documentary Nothing Is Truer Than Truth (2018), leads a discussion on the circulation of manuscripts among Oxford’s literary circle.
Mr. Warren, Professor Stritmatter, and Dr. Gilvary — Oxfordian Publications Panel.
Conferral of the inaugural Tom Regnier Veritas Award by SOF Vice President Julie Sandys Bianchi
Concluding remarks by Ms. Eagan-Donovan and Dr. Showerman.
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