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Be The Revolution! What: Cascade Moot ’23When: September 23, 2023.Where: Portland, OR. At the Portland English Language Academy in the Lloyd Center. Register Here Signum University and the Mythgard Institute invite you to join us on Saturday, September 23, 2023, for Cascade Moot 2023: Be The Revolution. This hybrid event will take place at PELA…

Perilous Realms & Haunted Spaces What: New England Moot 2023When: October 21, 2023Where: Derry, NH. Studio Lab. Address: 11 A St, Derry, NH 03038 Register Here Signum University and the Mythgard Institute invite you to join us on Saturday, October 21, 2023, for New England Moot 2023: Perilous Realms & Haunted Spaces. This hybrid event…

The warmest Canadian welcome from our hosts, the University of Toronto Tolkien Club. This lovely group of students has been eager to work with Signum University to bring a moot to Toronto. Their hard work with boots-on-the-ground helps to ensure the awesomeness of the day. Our First Annual Maple Moot, themed: Northern Spirit. Signum University…

Signum University and the Mythgard Institute, in collaboration with Hawkeye Community College, invite you to join us in Waterloo, IA, on Saturday, October 14, for Middle Moot 2023.  Our theme this year is “Tolkien and the Anthropocene.”  Our keynote speaker and guest-of-honor will be Janet Brennan Croft, editor of Mythlore, author of War and the…

Invented Languages, Invented Worlds Invented Languages, Invented WorldsHow the world around us shapes our speech, and how our speech shapes new worlds Signum University’s sixth Annual Texas Language and Literature Symposium (TexMoot) invites you to join us as we consider the what J.R.R. Tolkien called “the secret vice”, the invention of languages, specifically as it…

Welcome to Florida, friends! Leadership “A successful leader often combines courage, resolve, intelligence, intuition, persuasion, and physical ability. Often these qualities are accompanied by pride, entitlement, impetuousness, and a “fatal flaw” — yet a leader is also called to demonstrate humility, self-sacrifice, and regard for others. It’s a tall order. How are these qualities brought…

Join us for a party of special magnificence! We invite you to join us as we gather to celebrate the last episode of Season 1 of The Rings of Power with much fellowship and fun. This event is limited to in person attendance only due to the nature of the

The Mind of a Maker: Story Tellers and Secondary Worlds “What really happens is that the story-maker proves a successful ‘sub-creator’. He makes a Secondary World which your mind can enter. Inside it, what he relates is ‘true’: it accords with the laws of that world. You therefore believe it, while you are, as it…

Immersed in… We invite attendees and presenters to consider the many immersive experiences we encounter in art, literature, the study of language, and life.  When a character in a book is brought into a fully encompassing experience, how are they changed?  How can a work of art succeed or fail to wash over the participant?…

Subcreation: Blessed are the Legend-Makers The theme for SoCalMoot 2022 will be “Sub-Creation”, a topic which J.R.R. Tolkien explored both in his writings on Middle Earth (where the layers of creation stretch from Iluvatar to the Valar, to the mortal and immortal races), in the essay “On Fairy Stories”, and in his poem “Mythopoeia”, in…