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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 episode "Blink" from Series 3 of Doctor Who. Later in the segment, he was joined by Signum students Katherine Sas and Curtis Weyant – of the Kat & Curt's TV Re-View podcast – to discuss how the episode...

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, and the brand new Cinder Spires series) about adaptation, from Jackson’s take on the The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings to his own experiences in the TV adaptation of The Dresden Files. Conversation r...

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 literature – including extracts from some unexpected pieces of literature that have a Halloween flavor. Faculty chats, Mythgard Academy courses, the Simarillion Film Project, and other free events and series...

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 Extravaganza in 2015, Dr. Corey Olsen conducted a lecture on one of Tolkien's shorter works: The Father Christmas Letters, a selection of letters Tolkien wrote to his children over a number of years. If you’ve...

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 Theory" Dave Kale talk about computational text analysis of The Hobbit. Sounds dry? You don’t know these two. With Corey Olsen chiming in from the sidelines and audience participation designed into the...

<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 class="size-medium wp-image-8824 alignright" src="http://mythgard.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/15/2015/08/img_3854-sepia-200x300-200x300.jpg" alt="Malcom Guite" width="200" height="300"...

<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 class=" size-medium wp-image-8877 alignleft" src="http://mythgard.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/15/2015/08/GLS_Tom_Shippey-300x225.jpg" alt="Tom Shippey" width="300" height="225" /> Bo...

<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> [caption id="attachment_1225" align="alignleft" width="180"]<a href="http://mythgard.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/15/2011/07/MI_AmySturgis.jpg"><img class="size-full wp-image-1225" src=...

<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 wp-image-8826 alignleft" src="http://mythgard.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/15/2015/08/dbrin-205x300.jpg" alt="David Brin" width="205" height="300" /></a><a href="h...

<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=" size-medium wp-image-8828 alignleft" src="http://mythgard.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/15/2015/08/shapeimage_4-223x300.png" alt="Matthew Dickerson" width="223" height="300" /><...

<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/uploads/sites/15/2015/02/NewDroutCoverPhoto.jpg"><img class=" size-medium wp-image-8142 alignleft" src="http://mythgard.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/15/2015/02/NewDroutCoverPhoto-200x...

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 than any other satisfaction.<span style="font-family: Andalus,serif">"</span> Mythgard faculty member Sørina Higgins offered observations about Lewis and <em>sehnsuch...