The Signum Scene podcast covers Signum University news, Signum Symposia, and creator chats from Signum Plaza—engaging talks on literature for fans and scholars. Featuring event updates, faculty chats, MA student thesis presentations, and interviews with leading academics and creators, it offers something for everyone.
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This recording from August 1, 2026. Signum University presents Thesis Theater with Galen Miller-Atkins, "Early Runic Meter: Word-Foot Theory and the Early Runic Language." Several early runic inscriptions exhibit alliterative patterns, broadly reminiscent of later alliterative verse patterns; however, previous work has failed to definitively conclude whether these inscriptions are poetry,…
This recording from May 13, 2026. Signum University presents Thesis Theater with J. Michael Southards, "It's All in Plato: Bringing the Sophistic Critique into the Lewis-Plato Conversation." The scholarly conversation surrounding the relationship between C.S. Lewis and Plato is robust but does not yet include Plato’s critique of the sophists. By conducting a series of close readings on Plato, the…
This recording from April 11, 2026. Signum University presents Thesis Theater with Tamara Bootsma, "The Old Swedish Bjärköarätten: an English Translation." The complete Bjärköarätten, the Trading Town Law, of medieval Sweden, exists only in one manuscript, written about 1345. Originally composed for Stockholm in the late 13th century, this version might be amended for the city of Lødose, or it may…
This recording from December 13, 2025. Signum University presents Thesis Theater with Elizabeth (Libby) Lyon on Saturday, December 13, 2025 at 11am ET. This thesis explores Chaucer’s perplexing conclusion to his Canterbury Tales, reflecting particularly on parallels between the Parson’s Prologue and Chaucer’s Retraction in order to discover ways these final elements influence the collection as a…
Now Corey Olsen delivers the 2025 State of the University Address, to discuss the exciting future of Signum University! Thank you all for your support for Signum University. https://signumuniversity.org/news/annual-fundraising-campaign-2025/ https://signumuniversity.org/support/ https://signumuniversity.org/support/donate/ To know more about us, Signum University, visit…
This episode contains my conversation with Stacy Aannestad about her novel: Flight: the Den-Aronel Chronicles in the Signum University Collaboratory. I also report on two new works that have entered the fiction sector since the last episode.
This recording from September 1, 2025. Signum University presents Thesis Theater with Bronwyn Rivera on Monday, September 1, 2025 at 11 am ET. From psychology to film theory, ecocriticism to posthumanism, anime studies have flourished as scholars investigate the medium through a variety of interdisciplinary lenses. In particular, academics are examining relationships between pilgrimage and tourism…
This recording from August 13, 2025. Signum University presents Thesis Theater with Grace Bennett on Wednesday, August 13, 2025 at 3pm ET. This thesis challenges the reductionistic narrative that C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien were anti-technology and anti-science. It examines technological examples from the works of Lewis and Tolkien that show their varying degrees of comfort and caution…
This recording from August 6, 2025 Signum University presents Thesis Theater with Sarah Shahan Polo on Wednesday, August 6, 2025 at 1pm ET. This thesis explores the complex relationship between J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings and the literary and cultural movements of modernism and postmodern counterculture. Though Tolkien personally distanced himself from modernist and postmodern…
This episode contains an interview with author and Academic Submissions Coordinator Dr Julian Barr. Julian has a middle grade novel called Rebel Seers: Beyond the Ashlands up in the collaboratory and several works published outside Signum University. There is also a brief reminder about the new Signum Tutorials program as announced at Mythmoot XII.
