About the show
Signum Symposia comprise a collection of conversations across a wide range of topics appealing to both fans and scholars of literature. Episodes include chats with members of Signum's world class faculty, presentations by students in our Masters program and interviews with some of the leading lights in academic and popular circles. With a rich variety of topics and speakers, there is bound to be something here for everyone.
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Episodes
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Thesis Theater: Peter DeVault, "Illuminating the Metrical Grammar of Germanic Alliterative Poetry"
October 14th, 2024 | 59 mins 35 secs
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Thesis Theater: Julia Stowe, "Time and Eternity in 8-10th c. West Germanic Language and Literature"
September 17th, 2024 | 1 hr 6 mins
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Thesis Theater: Robert Black, "Beowulf as a Christian Critique of Germanic Heroism"
August 16th, 2024 | 1 hr 1 min
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Thesis Theater: Celesta Clegg, "Original Sin: A Portrait of the Fall Through Germanic Texts”
July 22nd, 2024 | 1 hr 9 mins
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Thesis Theater: Shannon Choudhari, "Notion Club Papers and Tolkien’s Vision of Creative Mysticism"
May 14th, 2024 | 46 mins 27 secs
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Thesis Theater: Trevor Brierly, "Tolkien's Vision of Faërie in 'Smith of Wooton Major'"
May 14th, 2024 | 57 mins 7 secs
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Thesis Theater: Timothy Francis, "Administrative Art as Genre in Kafka, Tooker, and Ravn"
April 12th, 2024 | 1 hr 1 min
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Thesis Theater: Duane Watson, "Dominate or Preserve: Magic as a Means of Production in Middle-earth"
April 12th, 2024 | 59 mins 39 secs
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Thesis Theater: Laurel Stevens, "An Awareness of Debts: Dark Academia and its Source-Texts"
March 23rd, 2024 | 49 mins 38 secs
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State of the University Address, Fall 2023
December 11th, 2023 | 32 mins 52 secs
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Thesis Theater: Kira Tregoning, "The Semantic and Narrative Meaning in Homeric Epithets"
October 8th, 2023 | 1 hr 2 mins
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Thesis Theater: Gina Petrone, "'Let Me In!' Vampirism in Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights"
August 3rd, 2023 | 47 mins 21 secs
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Thesis Theater: Patrick Lyon, "The Familiar and the Strange in the Old English Rhyming Poem"
August 3rd, 2023 | 1 hr 6 mins
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Thesis Theater: Christoph Schabert, "Magus Saga Jarls: A Digital Edition"
August 3rd, 2023 | 57 mins 34 secs
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Summer Courses 2023
April 28th, 2023 | 1 hr 2 mins
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Thesis Theater: Jennifer Ewing, “The Promises to the Overcomer”
April 12th, 2023 | 51 mins 26 secs