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2024.07.13 Thesis Theatre: Celesta Clegg
“Original Sin: A Portrait of the Fall Through Germanic Texts” Germanic reworkings of Genesis material present a glimpse into the Christian doctrine and societal understandings of the medieval culture in which the texts were composed. This thesis serves as an analysis and synthesis of the topic of original sin as found in a selection of…
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2025.04.26 Willow Moot, 26 April, 2025
How Culture Influences Our Creation and Interpretation of Fiction Signum University invites you to join us on 26 April for Willow Moot 2025. This English-language hybrid event will occur at the Collegium Veteranorum at Maria Theresa College in Leuven, Belgium. For our first appearance in Belgium, we invite you to contemplate How Culture Influences Our…
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2024.10.26 Middle Moot, October 26, 2024
Consolation, Recovery, & Hope in Faerie Signum University and the Mythgard Institute invite you to join us on Saturday, October 26, 2024, for Middle Moot 2024. This hybrid event will occur at the National World War I Museum and Memorial in Kansas City, MO. For our return to the Midwest, our theme is “Consolation, Recovery,…
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2024.05.10 Thesis Theatre: Shannon Choudhari
“I wonder what you’ve been up to?”: The Notion Club Papers and Tolkien’s Vision of Creative Mysticism Since it’s publication in 1992, Tolkien’s unfinished time-travel story The Notion Club Papers has received relatively infrequent critical attention for its depiction of time and time-travel, as well as for its representation of Tolkien’s Númenor legend. This thesis…
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2025.02.22 Sunshine Moot, February 22, 2025
The Muppet Lord of the Rings Signum University and the Mythgard Institute invite you to join us on Saturday, February 22, 2025, for Sunshine Moot 2025. This hybrid event will occur at the Drury Inn & Suites – Universal Orlando Resort in Orlando, FL. For our return to the Sunshine State, our theme this year…
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2024.09.20-22 Ranger Moot September 20-22, 2024
Signum University and the Mythgard Institute, along with our friends at the Middle-earth Reenactment Society, invite you to join us Friday to Sunday, September 20-22, 2024, for Ranger Moot 2024. This unique, outdoor, hybrid event will take place at Camp Friedlander in Loveland, OH. Unlike our other Regional Moots, we are not offering a theme…
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2024.08.31 Cascade Moot, August 31, 2024
From the Fringe: The Importance of Secondary and Tertiary Characters Signum University and the Mythgard Institute invite you to join us on Saturday, August 31, 2024, for Cascade Moot 2024. This hybrid event will occur in Maple Hall at the University of Washington in Seattle, WA. For our second journey to the Pacific Northwest, our…
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2024.05.07 Thesis Theatre: N. Trevor Brierly
N. Trevor Brierly: Tolkien’s “Vision of Faërie” in “Smith of Wootton Major” Abstract:Tolkien’s story “Smith of Wootton Major”, written in 1965, and an accompanying essay written at the same time, provide a rich understanding of Tolkien’s “Vision of Faërie” that goes significantly beyond earlier critical works such “On Fairy-stories” and “Mythopoeia”. A close reading and…
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Thesis Theater: Timothy Francis, “Administrative Art as Genre in Kafka, Tooker, and Ravn”
Join us on April 11 at 1pm ET for a Thesis Theater that explores bureaucracy in literature and art!
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2024.04.05 Thesis Theater: Duane Watson
The Power to Dominate or Preserve: Magic as a Means of Production in Middle-earth Abstract J. R. R. Tolkien’s Middle-earth has long been praised for its sense of depth, but Tolkien’s creation has often been criticized, especially by Marxist critics, for its lack in depicting economic realities and for providing a reactionary fantasy to soothe…