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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Dr. Dimitra Fimi: Halloween in Literature
December 20th, 2015 | 1 hr 30 mins
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Mythgard Academy: The Father Christmas Letters, by J.R.R. Tolkien
December 20th, 2015 | 1 hr 38 mins
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Sparrow Alden & Dave Kale: Fun with Words in The Hobbit
December 20th, 2015 | 1 hr 58 mins
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Guest Lecture Series Malcolm Guite – The Truth of Imagination in the Writings of Lewis and Tolkien
October 26th, 2015 | 1 hr 17 mins
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Guest Lecture Series Tom Shippey – Myth in Modern Fantasy
September 9th, 2015 | 1 hr 21 mins
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Guest Lecture Series Amy H. Sturgis – The Jedi, the Cowboy, and Thomas Edison? Pulp Science Fiction and Star Wars
August 14th, 2015 | 1 hr 25 mins
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Thesis Chat Sparrow Alden – Words That You Were Saying
August 13th, 2015 | 1 hr 28 mins
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Guest Lecture Series David Brin – Can Science Fiction Change The World?
July 24th, 2015 | 1 hr 7 mins
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Guest Lecture Series Matthew Dickerson – Tolkien as Early Environmentalist
June 16th, 2015 | 1 hr 28 mins
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Guest Lecture Series Michael Drout – Lexonomic Analysis of Beowulf
March 22nd, 2015 | 1 hr 29 mins
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Faculty Chat Professor Sørina Higgins – The Heraldry of Heaven
October 6th, 2014 | 1 hr 16 mins