Paul E. J. Hammer, professor of history at the University of Colorado, Boulder, presents on the effect of the death of the Earl of Essex on King James I's reign.

Robert Frost, Burnett Fletcher Chair of History at the University of Aberdeen, presents on the transfer of power between the death of Queen Elizabeth I and King James VI.

Nicholas Popper, associate professor of history at the College of William and Mary, presents on the reign of James VI's effect on future Jacobean ideals.