Latest News
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News From The Signum Collaboratory
Hello, friends, it’s time to check in at The Signum Collaboratory! The Collaboratory is dedicated to connecting users with creators. You’ll find a lot of content on the site and in various stages of development, so let’s talk about how this works! Getting Started The first step you will take is to create a Signum…
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Spring SPACE Showcase!
We are excited to share a Spring SPACE Showcase on Saturday, May 3rd in celebration of the continuing growth of the SPACE program. SPACE is Signum’s for-fun, no-credit, one month continuing ed classes for adults who want to learn what they love for the pure joy of it. The Spring Showcase will feature free 30-minute…
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Our Favorite Free Things at Signum
Signum University has many opportunities for learning and fun, and some of those are absolutely free. The Mythgard Institute is the Cool Free Stuff arm of the university, featuring some of the scholars and personalities of the university sharing what they love most. Many friends of the University have come to us through Mythgard —…
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Find Joy: Learn The Things That You Love
At Signum University there are myriad ways to learn what you love — Welcome to the 2024 Annual Fund Drive full of new programs, announcements, and opportunities. To continue provide our content and pay our staff, our 2024 Annual Fund Drive aims for $200,000 this year — will you be part of our university by…
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Anytime Audit Gift Certificate Holiday Promotion!
Anytime Audits are a bundle of recorded lectures, handouts, and a discussion group from our traditional graduate level courses here at Signum University — just for fun, no credit, for the simple Joy of Learning! With a Gift Certificate, your giftee can choose any one of our Anytime Audit courses. That’s right, from now until…
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Four Important Questions
What would it be like to study languages at Signum? If only we could get a glimpse into the minds of the Germanic Philology Department luminaries! With this in mind, I asked the Germanic Philology professors four very important questions: What’s your coolest story about being a polyglot? Paul Peterson, PhD., Deputy Chair of the…
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Fellowship of the Pen
– By Barbara L. Quaale “The fact is, creativity itself is a messy business.” Have you ever been enchanted by the idea of a story, a really long story, and decided that you would like to write one yourself? Did you look at your stockpile of notions and say, “But how? Where do I start?…
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What do you get when you fall in love?
I asked some language professors and preceptors, “How did you first fall in love with language learning?” And not one of them objected to the phrasing “fall in love.” Each of our language faculty have a full-on neural-net entanglement with languages that are beautiful relationships indeed. Dr. Paul Peterson reports that he first fell in…
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Call For Papers: Philology Anthology!
Greetings, all! Signum Press is pleased to announce a Call for Papers For a Philology Anthology. The attached PDF has all the details. For questions about and contributions to the project, please email [email protected]. We hope to collect the contributions over July, August, and September. Thanks!
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Mythmoot XI: Registration Open
Huzzah! After many and complex logistics have been negotiated, sorted, and pounded into shape, the Mythmoot XI registration is open! What is Mythmoot? It is Signum University’s Annual Speculative Literature Conference, bringing together all of our community from every niche of the University. Fans of the Mythgard Institute, Students from the Graduate School of Arts,…
Open Events
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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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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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2025.10.03-05 Euro Moot, 3-5 October, 2025
Land of Dragons: How Myth Shapes Our Reality Signum University invites you to join us from 3-5 October for Euro Moot 2025. This hybrid event will occur at the Pafiliwn Grange Pavilion in Cardiff, Wales, UK. For our very first Euro Moot, you are invited to join us in, and also consider, the “Land of…
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2025.10.18 New England Moot, 18 October, 2025
Mythic Resonances Signum University invites you to join us on 18 October for New England Moot 2025. This hybrid event will occur at Studio Lab in Derry, New Hampshire. This year, we invite you to listen and respond to Mythic Resonances. Register Here for New England Moot Price: $50 USD for in-person attendance, $25 USD…
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25-05-03 Spring SPACE Showcase
We are excited to share a Spring SPACE Showcase on Saturday, May 3rd in celebration of the continuing growth of the SPACE program. SPACE is Signum’s for-fun, no-credit, one month continuing ed classes for adults who want to learn what they love for the pure joy of it. The Spring Showcase will feature free 30-minute…
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25-05-07 Kimberly McKinney Thesis Theater
Ecology, Eucatastrophe, and Estel: Themes of Joy and Hope in J. R. R. Tolkien’s Use of Botanical Elements and Imagery Thesis abstract: J. R. R. Tolkien’s tales about Middle-earth were designed to provide a conceivable mythological history for the existing world. Due to this intentional connection, his secondary, fictional world reflects many familiar primary world experiences…
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25-05-24 Thesis Theatre for Sarah Monnier
TOWARD A DIGITAL EDITION OF WIDSIĐ Abstract: It is a truth universally acknowledged that the Classics, which generally means Greek and Latin language materials, are much more advanced in digital scholarship and resources than Germanic languages. While an enormous amount of material exists online to allow research into Biblical and Classical Greek text, for instance, there…
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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…