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Signum Academy Presents: Hobbit Day
Signum Academy’s Writer’s Club invites you to our Hobbit Day celebration! Hobbit Day is on September 22, the date of that most memorable birthday party, and the shared birthdays of Bilbo and Frodo Baggins, and Signum Academy invites you to our Hobbit Day celebration, where you can experience a taste of the instruction and knowledge…
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Writer’s Forge: The Shape of Story
The Wordsmiths of the Writer’s Forge bring you the first in a short series of Tools for the Toolbox. Friday the 16th at 6pm Eastern, The Shape of Story. Plenty of folks will tell you they have the One True Method of plotting out a story. But what if each form is valid and strong…
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Thesis Theater: Nadia Schafer, “One Strange (s)Elf: Deep Ecology, Decolonization, and the Radical Hope of Legolas Greenleaf”
Join us on September 5th at 7pm ET for a Thesis Theater to explore issues that concern us today, and were ahead of their time in Tolkien’s writings.
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Fall Courses 2022 Preview
Join us at 12pm Eastern on the 25th of August for this preview of the new courses in the Signum University MA Program.
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Meet the Spanish Conversation Club at Signum Academy!
Come check out Spanish Conversation Club with Pilar Barrera on Tuesday, June 21st, at 4:00pm Eastern Time. Pilar will be introducing her Spanish Conversation Club, which is an interactive club that meets online twice a week to support kids and teens who want to develop their Spanish conversational skills. Spanish Conversation Club focuses on conversational…
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Mountain Moot 2022
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…
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New England Moot 2022
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?…
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Thesis Theater: Jacob R. Schreiner, “The Logos of Faith: Sub-creation through Speech-Acts in Tolkien’s Legendarium”
Join us on June 1st at 12pm (noon) ET for a Thesis Theater to explore J.R.R. Tolkien’s powerful concept of Sub-Creation and further ways to understand and perhaps, once explored, make use of it.
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Thesis Theater: Miriam Davidson, “The Sword Not for its Sharpness: Nonviolent Countercurrents in Tolkien’s Epic of War”
Join us on May 26th at 3pm ET for a Thesis Theater to explore the relevant description and surprising complexity of war in Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings; a timely topic.
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Virtual Open House with Signum Academy!
Whether you have high school, middle school, or elementary kids in your life who like writing or reading books, want to learn Spanish or learn Old Norse, Signum has a group for them to develop their skills. To introduce you to the concept of virtual clubs and to meet the preceptors who lead these groups,…