Your submission to this contest should answer such questions as: Why is studying the humanities–e.g., history, literature, languages, philosophy, art history, media history, and culture–important to you? To society? How would you convince your parents, an employer, a politician, or others that there is value in learning the humanities?
Who: Enter if you are an undergraduate or graduate student, an individual or team, from any nation.
What: Your submission will be judged by an international panel of distinguished judges for message, quality, and impact no matter your medium or format. Possible submissions include: essay (less than 2,000 words), video, digital work, poster, cartoon, song, art, short story, interview. See our Contest Kit for ideas, resources, and tools.
Instructors and Educational Leaders: Want to organize a “creativity workshop” to incubate submissions by your students? See Workshops and Contest Kit for ideas. 4Humanities.org will create an online showcase specifically for your students’ work.
When: Submissions by March 1, 2016.
Prizes: Winners will receive the following awards, and will be published on the 4Humanities.org site:
- Undergraduate Students: 1st US$1,000 — 2nd US$700 — 3rd US$300
- Graduate Students: 1st US$1,000 — 2nd US$700 — 3rd US$300
Get the Poster or Flyer!
Download and print the contest flyer: Letter size · A4 size · Poster size
Request a printed contest poster (11.5 x 17 inches): contest@4humanities.org
Get the Press Release!
Hello,
Is this contest taking place in 2017?
Thank you,
Emily
The contest took place last year, but you can read about our winners and their work here: https://4humanities.org/contest/contest-winners-announced-june-2016/