The 12th Annual Shakespeare Authorship Studies 2008 Conference Agenda
Proceedings for the 12th Annual SASC will begin 4:00pm on Thursday, 3 April; the conference will close at 4:00pm on Sunday, 6 April.
The Awards Banquet will convene at 6:30pm on Saturday, 5 April at The University Club (1225 SW 6th Avenue).The banquet speaker will be the well-known Hollywood attorney and author, Bertram Fields, author of Players: The Mysterious Identity of William Shakespeare
Thursday
1:00 - 9:00 Registration packet pick-up for those who have registered in advance; walk-in registrations processed (if space is available); coffee and tea available in the Luther Hall auditorium lobby; used book sale in the Luther Hall auditorium lobby
4:00 - 4:45 “The Case of the Wrong Countess”; Bonner Miller Cutting, independent scholar; Houston, Texas
4:45 - 5:00 Welcome; Charles Schlimpert, Ph.D., President of Concordia University and Gary Withers, J.D., Executive Vice President of Concordia University; Portland, Oregon
5:00 - 5:45 "William Shakespeare: Can We Be Sure?" Ian Haste, retired educator; Mission, British Columbia
5:45 - 6:15 "...but not Shakespeare!" Alex McNeil, J.D., attorney; Boston, Massachusetts
6:15 - 7:00 "Some Odds on Life, Education and Other Anomalies of Elizabethan England: A Statistical Analysis of Stratfordian Data"; Prof Sam Saunders, Ph.D., Professor of Mathematics, Washington State University; Pullman, Washington
-break for coffee, tea and conversation-
7:15 - 9:00 "Hamlet Made Simple"; David Gontar, Ph.D., J.D.; attorney; Tustin, California
Friday
9:00 - 9:45 "'Fine word, "legitimate"!' Legitimizing Illegitimacy in Shakespeare", Prof Daniel Wright, Ph.D., Professor of English and Director of the Shakespeare Authorship Research Centre; Concordia University, Portland, Oregon
-break for coffee, tea and conversation-
10:00 - 11:00 "Edward de Vere's Hand in Titus Andronicus - Part One"; Prof Michael Delahoyde, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of English; Washington State University; Pullman, Washington
1100 - 12:00 "Edward de Vere's Hand in Titus Andronicus - Part Two"; Prof Ren Draya, Ph.D., Professor of English; Blackburn College, Carlinville, Illinois
Lunch 12:00 - 1:30
Keynote Address
1:30 - 2:30 "Shakespeare's Identity Crisis"; Charles Beauclerk; author; Hadleigh, England
-break for coffee, tea and conversation-
2:45 - 3:45 "All Is True - The First Part of the Contention: How a Playwright's Comic Speculation Turned Serious in the Writing of a New Play About the Life of Shakespeare"; Amy Freed, playwright and professor; Stanford University; Palo Alto, California
-break for coffee, tea and conversation-
4:00 - 5:00 "Evidence for Francis Bacon as Leader, Principal Poet and Editor-in-Chief of a Group of Poets Who Composed the 'Shake-scene' and Acknowledged Bacon as Their 'Shakespeare'"; Peter Dawkins, author; Upper Warwick, England
Saturday
9:00 - 10:00 "Wielding the Stylus: Authors, Books, Readers, and the Creation of Authoritative Texts in Antiquity"; Prof Michael Thomas, M.A., Assistant Professor of Classical Languages; Concordia University; Portland, Oregon
10:00 - 11:15 "Shakespeare’s ‘Greater Greek’: The Herculean Allusions"; Earl Showerman, M.D., independent scholar; Jacksonville, Oregon
-break for coffee, tea and conversation-
11:30 - 12:00 "Contextualizing the 'Ever-Living' Reference to Shakespeare in the Sonnets' Dedication"; Alan Nelson, Ph.D., Emeritus Professor of English, The University of California at Berkeley; Berkeley, California
Lunch 12:00 - 1:15
1:15- 2:00 "Is the 'Basse Elegy’ to the Shakespeare ‘Who Died in April 1616’ Valid Evidence for the Stratfordian Thesis?" Richard Whalen, author; Truro, Massachusetts
2:00 - 3:15 "A Lover's Complaint: The End of the Story is the Beginning of the Story"; Hank Whittemore, author; Upper Nyack, New York
-break for coffee, tea and conversation-
3:30 - 5:00 "Willobie His Avisa: Why Getting It Right Matters in the Authorship Debate"; William Boyle, librarian; Boston, Massachusetts
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Awards Banquet
The University Club (1225 SW 6th Avenue)
6:30 - 7:30 (drinks - cash bar)
7:30 - 10:00 (banquet)
Attendance at the banquet is exclusively reserved for those who register for it in advance. Reservations for the banquet cannot be processed after March 31, as registrants' menu selections must be submitted to the club chef by the Conference Director by April 1
The Speaker at this year's Awards Banquet will be
Bertram Fields, attorney and author
The conference's Award for Artistic Excellence will be presented to
Amy Freed, playwright; Stanford University; Palo Alto, California
The annual Award for Scholarly Excellence will be presented to two distinguished recipients this year
Peter Dawkins, author; UpperWarwick, England
and
Bertram Fields, attorney and author; Hollywood, California
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Sunday
9:00 - 9:30 "The Black Hole: Searching for Directorial Style in the Silence of Shakespeare's Biography"; Chris Coleman, Artistic Director, Portland Center Stage; Portland, Oregon
-break for coffee, tea and conversation-
9:45 - 11:30 "'Armed to do as sworn to do': Oathbreaking in Love's Labour's Lost"; Rima Greenhill, Ph.D., Senior Lecturer in Russian Language, Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, Stanford University; Palo Alto, California
Brunch 11:30 - 12:30
12:30 - 1:15 "Coriolanus and Edward de Vere: Another Good Reason to be an Oxfordian"; William Farina, author; Chicago, Illinois
1:15 - 1:45 " Author of Authors: Jonsonus Virbius and the Shakespearean Question"; Prof Roger Stritmatter, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of English; Coppin State College; Baltimore, Maryland
-break for coffee, tea and conversation-
2:00 - 3:45 Shakespeare Authorship Jeopardy - Quizmaster: Alex McNeil, J.D., attorney; Boston, Massachusetts
3:45 - 4:00 Announcements by Special Guests
4:00 Closing of the 12th Annual Conference
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Registration for the 12th Annual Shakespeare Authorship Studies Conference closes wth receipt of the first 175 paid conference registrations
Registration for the Awards Banquet close with the receipt of the first 100 paid banquet registrations
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