The Signum Scene
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.
- Update frequency
- every 16 days
- Average duration
- 66 minutes
- Episodes
- 137
- Years Active
- 2014 - 2025
Thesis Theatre: Aaron Masters and Dan Kinney, with Sarah Brown and Sørina Higgins (2016-09-17)
Dr. Corey Olsen Blinks with His Take on Doctor Who
As part of the Signum University Annual Fund Campaign in the fall of 2015, in this Mythgard Academy mini-class, Signum University President Dr. Corey Olsen discussed the story and themes of the episo…
Talking Adaptation with Jim Butcher
Stars and stones! Crows and furies! SilmFilm co-hosts Corey Olsen, Trish Lambert and Dave Kale went all fan, all the time as they spent time with author Jim Butcher (The Dresden Files, Codex Alera, …
Dr. Dimitra Fimi: Halloween in Literature
As part of the Signum University Annual Fund Campaign Halloween Extravaganza in the fall of 2015, fantasy scholar and Signum lecturer Dr. Dimitra Fimi discussed Halloween customs and rites in literat…
Mythgard Academy: The Father Christmas Letters, by J.R.R. Tolkien
The Mythgard Academy lecture series focuses on novel-length books, with a weekly lecture over eight to ten weeks. However, as part of the Signum University Annual Fund Campaign the Halloween Extravag…
Sparrow Alden & Dave Kale: Fun with Words in The Hobbit
As part of the Signum University Annual Fund Campaign in the fall of 2015, Signum Master’s Program participant and resident Spreadsheet Queen Sparrow Alden and "should be an advisor to The Big Bang T…
Guest Lecture Series Malcolm Guite – The Truth of Imagination in the Writings of Lewis and Tolkien
<p style="text-align: center;">This free online lecture is part of the <a href="http://mythgard.org/academy/guest-lecture-series/">Mythgard Academy Guest Lecture Series</a>.</p>
<img …Guest Lecture Series Tom Shippey – Myth in Modern Fantasy
<p style="text-align: center">This free online lecture is part of the <a href="http://mythgard.org/academy/guest-lecture-series/">Mythgard Academy Guest Lecture Series</a>.</p>
<img c…Guest Lecture Series Amy H. Sturgis – The Jedi, the Cowboy, and Thomas Edison? Pulp Science Fiction and Star Wars
<p style="padding-left: 30px">This free online lecture is part of the <a href="http://mythgard.org/academy/guest-lecture-series/">Mythgard Academy Guest Lecture Series</a>.</p>
[cap…Guest Lecture Series David Brin – Can Science Fiction Change The World?
<h3>David Brin</h3>
<h4><b>Can Science Fiction Change the World?</b></h4>
<a href="http://mythgard.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/15/2015/08/dbrin.jpg"><img class=" size-medium …Guest Lecture Series Matthew Dickerson – Tolkien as Early Environmentalist
<h3>Matthew Dickerson</h3>
<h4><b>Tolkien as Early Environmentalist</b></h4>
<a href="http://mythgard.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/15/2015/08/shapeimage_4.png"><img class=" si…Guest Lecture Series Michael Drout – Lexonomic Analysis of Beowulf
<h3>Michael D. C. Drout</h3>
<h4><b>Lexomic Analysis of Beowulf and J.R.R. Tolkien’s Scholarship on the Poem: A Confluence</b></h4>
<a href="http://mythgard.org/wp-content/upl…Faculty Chat Professor Sørina Higgins – The Heraldry of Heaven
C. S. Lewis used the German term <em>sehnsucht</em> to describe an inconsolable yearning, <span style="font-family: Andalus,serif">"</span>an unsatisfied desire which is itself more desirable…