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New SPACE Launchpad!
Dr. Olsen and SPACE Director Rob Gosselin will be hosting a live discussion Thursday, December 12th at 8 PM Eastern about the new SPACE Launchpad. Please join us live or catch the recording following the event on either Youtube or Twitch.
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2025.03.15 SoCal Moot, 15 March, 2025
‘The Same Tale Still’: The Intersection of Personal Experience With History and Storytelling Signum University invites you to join us on 15 March for SoCal Moot 2025. This hybrid event will occur at the Carlsbad City Library in Carlsbad, CA. For our return to the West Coast, we invite you to join us in considering…
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2024.11.16 SPACE Showcase!
A day of free, fun, and friendly SPACE capsules in celebration of our 3-year mark of the SPACE program. Registration will remain open now through November 16th, but those who register by November 1st will be added into a draw for a FREE SPACE TOKEN! (1 token = 1 module’s tuition) The November Showcase will…
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2024.11.01 A Seedbed Of Darkness: M.R. James, Folk Horror, And 17th Century England — a Thesis Theatre by Jay Moses
ABSTRACT:M.R. James was recognized and acclaimed for his short stories of the macabre written at the turn of the twentieth century. In the 1970’s the new genre of Folk Horror arose, basing many of its stories within the England countryside, and claiming M.R. James as a significant foundation and forerunner. While setting most of his…
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2025.04.05 TexMoot, 5 April, 2025
Stagnation versus Adaptation: Toxic Traditionalism Signum University and the Mythgard Institute invite you to join us on 5 April for TexMoot 2025. This hybrid event will occur at the Hampton Inn & Suites Houston Heights I-10 in Houston, Texas. For our return to the Lone Star State, we invite you to contemplate the opposing forces…
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Words The You Were Saying: A Thesis Theatre with Sparrow F. Alden
On August 3, 2015, Sparrow F. Alden presented her work constructing a concordance of The Hobbit with lexical analysis with the support of her thesis director Corey Olsen. This project fulfills a small part of the requirement for a Master of Arts degree in Language and Literature from Signum University. Words were chosen for their…
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2024.09.28 Illuminating the Metrical Grammar of Germanic Alliterative Poetry — a Thesis Theater by Peter DeVault
AbstractModern metrical analysis of germanic alliterative poetry (GAP) has invariably proceeded fromedited texts in which the poem is represented visually as verses on a printed page or screen. Ofcourse, that is not how these poems came down to us. The manuscript form of a GA poem istypically indistinguishable from prose, the words (and abbreviations) inscribed…
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24.09.14 The Point of Intersection: A Thesis Theatre by Julia Stowe
The Point of Intersection: Time and Eternity in 8th-10th Century West Germanic Language and Literature Abstract: The concepts of time and eternity, and the words that are used to express them, have significant influence over a culture. This thesis examines how the understanding of these concepts changed in early Germanic culture with the introduction of…
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2025.01.24-26 OzMoot, 24-26 January, 2025
The Music of Words: Language, Poetry, and Music in Tolkien’s Works Signum University and the Mythgard Institute, in partnership with Hern Ennorath, invite you to join us in Melbourne for OzMoot 2025. For our first trip to Melbourne and third trip to Australia, we invite you to contemplate The Music of Words: Language, Poetry, and…
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Thesis Theatre for Robert Black
MONSTROUS HEROES: BEOWULF AS A CHRISTIAN CRITIQUE OF GERMANIC HEROISM This paper proposes to compare once again the heroes Beowulf and Böðvarr Bjarki, using linguistics and critiques of the heroes to build on the traditional approaches of comparison through folktale, etymological, and literary analysis to examine the degree to which Beowulf may be considered a…