Archives: Events
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2025.09.06 Cascade Moot, 6 September, 2025
Fantasy is for Everyone Signum University invites you to join us on 6 September for Cascade Moot 2025. This hybrid event will take place at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada. For our return to the Pacific Northwest, this year we cordially invite one and all with our theme, “Fantasy is for Everyone”.…
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Mythmoot XII June 19-22, 2025
Drawn to the Edge Signum University invites you to join us at the National Conference Center in Leesburg, VA. “The Quest stands upon the edge of a knife. Stray but a little, and it will fail, to the ruin of all.” Galadriel in Peter Jackson’s The Fellowship of the Ring “Drawn to the Edge” can…
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2025.05.31 Mountain Moot, 31 May, 2025
Tolkien and the Green: The Environment of Middle-earth Signum University invites you to join us on 31 May for Mountain Moot 2025. This hybrid event will occur at the Drury Inn & Suites Denver Near the Tech Center in Denver, CO. For our return to the Rockies, we invite you to join us in considering…
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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
This Thesis Theatre has passed; please enjoy the recording: 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…
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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…