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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,…
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An Ode to Spring Reading: The Shelves of Signum Part II
By Bronwyn Rivera The season of reading is in full bloom here at Signum University, and we are thrilled to present you with the second installation of the Shelves of Signum series. From hopepunk and environmental science to quests for freedom and unconventional fairytales, the following book recommendations are offered by our staff members. Some…
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A World of Pure Collaboration: a Look Inside the Signum Collaboratory
By Bronwyn Rivera Officially launched on December 9, 2023, the Signum Collaboratory is an experimental platform that allows content-makers to publish their academic and artistic creations online. Yet it’s more than an outlet into the virtual void. Members of the Collaboratory can rest assured they will receive their hard-earned dues. Signum’s Director of Commerce, Robbie…
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October Showcase in SPACE!
Saturday, October 28th on Zoom Signum’s Portals for Adult Continuing Ed have been blasting off for two years! To celebrate our one-month-no-credit modules of learning and fun, the SPACE folks present a Showcase of half-hour learning capsules in an unrecorded, FREE event open to everyone on the internet. Our Capsule sessions are 30-minute samples of…
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New Adventures in the Unexplored and Unexpected: (Re)Introducing “Literary Copernicus: The Cosmic Fiction of H.P. Lovecraft”
By Bronwyn Rivera Have you ever wondered what Cthulhu, Stranger Things, and the Elder Scrolls have in common? Or how to approach problematic authors who wrote beloved texts? Or perhaps, in an age of unrest and unpredictability, you want to know how characters cope with circumstances far beyond themselves. If so, please consider joining us…
Open Events
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2025.01.24-26 OzMoot, 24-26 January, 2025
The Music of Words: Language, Poetry, and Music in Tolkien’s Works Signum University and the Mythgard Institute, in partnership with Hern Ennorath, invite you to join us in Melbourne for OzMoot 2025. For our first trip to Melbourne and third trip to Australia, we invite you to contemplate The Music of Words: Language, Poetry, and…
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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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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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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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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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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.