An event later this week on the campus of Slippery Rock University will give students the chance to tell the world why studying the humanities is important.
The second annual “Shout Out for the Humanities” is planned for Thursday, Oct. 26 at 12:30 p.m. in the Smith Student Center. The humanities can be described as the study of how people process and document human experience using philosophy, literature, religion, art, music, history and language.
Submissions could include photographs, digital work, social media campaigns, posters, cartoons, short stories, poems, plays, interviews or other spoken pieces or performances. A panel of judges will choose the top three submissions and award prizes of $100, $75 and $50.
Thirty submissions were accepted last year with a video called “The Humanities Matter” by student Adam Riddle awarded first place. This event is sponsored and organized by the SRU Stone House Center for Public Humanities.
Written By: Ryan Saeler for the Butler Radio Network