Inquiry at UST

Inquiry at UST poster session

Posters for the humanities:
Poster sessions are new to the humanities, but this is changing as more and more disciplines have poster sessions at conferences.

The purpose of a poster is to gather the audience who is really interested in your work so that you can discuss it and get their feedback on a one-to-one basis. Unlike an oral presentation, where only part of the audience really wants to hear everything you have to say, a poster session is good at capturing that audience who really does.

Some ideas about how the humanities can do posters:

• If you are an English major and wrote a work of literature or a poem, post the poem or an excerpt of the literature you produced.
• If you are a foreign language major and did a work of translation, post a sample of it, problem words, how you translated it, the spirit of the work that you tried to capture, etc.
• A Philosophy or Theology student could have a poster that had a title "The Problem of Evil", short statements of past scholars' interpretations, and the student's basic arguments about why their interpretation is better.
• An Art History student could post photos of the works they are interpreting, their key points of interpretation, and suggestions for future studies.

Remember that what you want on your poster is enough to stimulate discussion from passersby, which is what posters are all about. You do not put all of your work down, just enough to capture the interested audience