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Answering Lucy’s Mythmoot Questions
By Michael Raymond Astle Once upon a time, not so long ago, Sam was walking the hallowed halls of Signum University when he spied young Lucy. Knowing it was her first year, he thought he’d go chat with her. “Hey Lucy,” said Sam. “Hi,” Lucy replied. “Are you going to Mythmoot this year?” he asked.…
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A Fragmentary Mosaic
New in the Collaboratory Ordinary people facing an extraordinarily complex world. Christopher Bartlett‘s collection of short stories pull individual lives into focus during times of trouble and triumph. He will add one story each month until the collection is complete — choose this project room with your Collaboratory subscription to read his work and then…
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Year of the Novel
Is this the year for your novel? In the Creative Writing sector of SPACE, we conceive of our written work developmentally: Welcome to Launching Your Seedling Story, a series of three modules designed to support writers in the seedling stage of creating a novel. In June, it’s Character and Voice with Christopher Bartlett — click…
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The Storyweb Podcast
In this inaugural episode of the Storyweb series, Christopher Bartlett interviews Sparrow Alden about her history and process as a writer. They discuss A Flash of Wings, Sparrow’s anthology of flash fiction that appears in the Signum University Collaboratory. Link to Episode 1
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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…
Open 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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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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25-05-24 TOWARD A DIGITAL EDITION OF WIDSIĐ
Thesis Theatre for Sarah Monnier This thesis Theatre has passed. Enjoy the recording! 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…
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25-05-30 “Tolkien’s Gods: Divine Council Theology in J. R. R. Tolkien’s Middle-earth Legendarium”
A Thesis Theater by Fr. Andrew Damick This Thesis Theater has passed; enjoy the recording here: ABSTRACT: In J. R. R. Tolkien’s Middle-earth legendarium, particularly in The Silmarillion and related material, the reader encounters divine beings, including the Valar, who are called gods in the text and by Tolkien himself in his commentary. Multiple divine…
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25-06-04 Unveiling Hope: Do the Inhabitants of Arda Know How Their Own Story Ends?
A Thesis Theater by Jeffrey Wade Abstract:This thesis concerns itself with the question of whether the inhabitants of Tolkien’s Arda possess an awareness of their creation’s eschatological end. It is not a study of Christian doctrine, Tolkien, or outside analysis. It is a study of how myth carries the weight of a telos through music,…
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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…