Event Category: Online Event
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2026-05-13 It’s All in Plato: Bringing the Sophistic Critique into the Lewis-Plato Conversation
The scholarly conversation surrounding the relationship between C.S. Lewis andPlato is robust but does not yet include Plato’s critique of the sophists. Byconducting a series of close readings on Plato, the sophists, and Lewis’s Abolitionof Man, Last Battle, and Silver Chair, this paper concludes that Lewis’s argumentagainst subjectivism in Abolition reflects a distinctly Platonic stance,…
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2026-04-11 Thesis Theatre —The Old Swedish Bjärköarätten: an English Translation
The complete Bjärköarätten, the Trading Town Law, of medieval Sweden, exists only in one manuscript, written about 1345. Originally composed for Stockholm in the late 13th century, this version might be amended for the city of Lødose, or it may be a direct copy of the Stockholm law, of which there is no other extant…
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2026.08.29 Cascade Moot, Saturday, 29 August, 2026
Taking Craft Seriously: Tolkien (and You!) as Maker Signum University invites you to join us on Saturday, 29 August in Portland, OR, USA, for Cascade Moot. For our return to Portland, we will be gathering at Portland State University at Cramer Hall. Our theme this year revolves around a Portland tradition: crafting. Come to Cascade…
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2026.10.02-04 Euro Moot, Fri-Sun 2-4 October, 2026
The Great Music: Cosmology, Harmony, and Discord in Middle-earth and Beyond Signum University invites you to join us on 2-4 October, 2026 (Friday to Sunday) for Euro Moot 2026. This English-language hybrid event will occur at the Kampus Hybernská in Prague, Czechia. For our second Euro Moot, you are welcomed to listen and contribute your…
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2026.08.01 Helcaraxë Moot Saturday, 1 August, 2026
The Long Winter and the Unending Light: Endurance in Tolkien’s World and the North Signum University invites you to join us on Saturday, 1 August for Helcaraxë Moot. This hybrid event will occur at the Alaska Centennial Center for the Arts in Fairbanks, Alaska, USA. For our first foray into the frigid North, we will…
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Mythmoot XIII: June 25-28, 2026
Signum University invites you to join us at the National Conference Center in Leesburg, VA for our annual conference and retreat – Mythmoot! “The finest of pleasures are always the unexpected ones.” – The Night Circus, Erin Morgenstern Unexpected Company comes in many forms: guest, xenos, wizard, crone, lion, alien invaders, horrors from beyond and…
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2026.05.09 Mountain Moot, Saturday, 9 May, 2026
The Roads Not Travelled: ‘What If?’ in Middle-earth Signum University invites you to join us on Saturday, 9 May for Mountain Moot 2026. This hybrid event will take place at the Drury Inn & Suites Denver Near the Tech Center in Denver, CO, USA. Join us amidst the rugged beauty of Colorado to debate and discuss “The Roads Not…
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2026.03.07 Sunshine Moot, Saturday, 7 March, 2026
The Long Undoing: On the Transmission of Oral History Signum University invites you to join us on Saturday, 7 March for Sunshine Moot 2026. This hybrid event will take place at the Drury Plaza Hotel Orlando – Disney Springs Area in Orlando, FL, USA. For our return to the Sunshine State, we invite you to…
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2026.02.07 SoCal Moot: Saturday, February 7, 2026
Lux in Tenebris: The Dialectic of Light and Darkness in Tolkien’s Legendarium Signum University invites you to join us on 7 February for SoCal Moot 2026. This hybrid event will occur at the Carlsbad City Library in Carlsbad, California. This year, we invite you to contemplate the juxtaposition of light and darkness with our theme,…
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“I believe I made three whole steps”: Pilgrimage Narrative in Violet Evergarden
A Thesis Theatre by Bronwyn Rivera From psychology to film theory, ecocriticism to posthumanism, anime studies have flourished as scholars investigate the medium through a variety of interdisciplinary lenses. In particular, academics are examining relationships between pilgrimage and tourism to anime/anime-adjacent sites, how anime plotlines reflect or reject narrative archetypes, or how specific anime subgenres…