2026 - 2027
Fall 2026 Cornerstone Student Contest 
Cornerstone Presents Reading Together
Cornerstone Presents Reading Allowed: A Holiday Story!
The Cornerstone Institute for Civic Thought Presents Reading Allowed: Civics Style
Purdue Reflects: Celebrations of America at 250 from Purdue Galleries' Permanent Collection
The Cornerstone Institute for Civic Thought Presents Reading Allowed: Civics Style - for alumni
The Cornerstone Institute for Civic Thought Presents Reading Allowed: Civics Style
The Cornerstone Institute for Civic Thought presents presents Othello (1995)
Cornerstone presents Pride and Prejudice (2005)
Cornerstone Presents "Love, Jealousy, and Deception: Entering the World of Othello" The Cornerstone Pre-Performance Lecture
Constitution Day 2026
Cornerstone Indianapolis and The Cornerstone Institute for Civic Thought presents Reading Allowed: Civics Style
The Cornerstone Institute for Civic Thought presents To Begin the World Over Again: The Life of Thomas Paine (2016)
The Cornerstone Institute for Civic Thought presents Reading Allowed: Civics Style
2025 - 2026
Winners of the Fall 2025 Cornerstone for Business Contest
Winners of the Fall 2025 Cornerstone Contest 
Spring 2026 Cornerstone Student Contest
Cornerstone presents Great Expectations (1998)
Cornerstone presents Persuasion (2022)
Cornerstone presents Into the Wild (2007)
Cornerstone Presents Reading Allowed: Storytime with Cornerstone
Fall 2025 Cornerstone Student Contest
Fall 2025 Cornerstone for Business Student Contest
Winners of the Spring 2025 Cornerstone Contest 
Cornerstone Presents "Mirror Up to Nature": The Cornerstone Pre-Performance Lecture
Cornerstone presents Hamlet (2000)
Spring 2025 Cornerstone Student Contest 
Winners of the Fall 2024 Cornerstone Contest
Volunteers Needed: Mary Shelley Presents: Frankenstein
Cornerstone presents Frankenstein Film Fest
Fall 2024 Cornerstone Student Contest
Winners of the Spring 2024 Cornerstone Contest 
Cornerstone screening of A Midsummer Night's Dream (1999)
Spring 2024 Cornerstone Student Contest 
Winners of the Fall 2023 Cornerstone Contest
Winners of the Spring 2023 Cornerstone Contest
Cornerstone screening of Romeo + Juliet (1996)
Spring 2023 Cornerstone Student Contest
Winners of the Fall 2022 Cornerstone Contest
Cornerstone screening of Pride + Prejudice + Zombies (2016)
When: October 31 (Halloween!)
Where: SC 239, 7:00 – 9:30 pm
Who: students in SCLA 101 & 102
Based on the 2009 novel, Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, this film seeks to parody Jane Austen’s novel by adding the undead. It combines horror, action, romance, and comedy.
Cornerstone screening of Pride and Prejudice (2005)
September 27, 2022- Loeb Theatre, 7:00 to 9:30 pm
For all Students in SCLA 101 or 102 and Cornerstone faculty
In 2005 Working Title film produced the first feature film adaptation of Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice (1813) since the American 1940 version, starring Greer Garson and Sir Laurence Olivier. With Kiera Knightly as Elizabeth Bennett (already made famous by Pirates of the Caribbean), this film combines elements of Romanticism and realism and adapts Austen’s novel about love, marriage, misconceptions, and self-awareness for a modern audience.
Fall 2022 Cornerstone Student Contest
This fall Cornerstone is seeking writings, artworks, videos, and poetry inspired by our discussions and readings in Transformative Texts, SCLA 101 and 102.
Our theme is Adaptations. Maybe your favorite book has been made into a feature film. Or your favorite film is also a famous book. Perhaps a video game you play is based on a book or a film. Or a song you sing was inspired by a poem. There are many kinds of adaptations and we can create our own as well.
In your own creative way, please share with us your favorite adaptation, depicting or describing what you liked about it or even where it fell short. You can also create your own adaptation, imagining how a book you love could be adapted to a film or game. For contest details
see flier here.
Winners of the Spring 2022 Cornerstone Contest
Spring 2022 Cornerstone Contest
This spring the Cornerstone contest is seeking writings and artworks as well as other forms of creativity including videos and poetry inspired by our readings in Transformative Texts (SCLA 101 or 102).
Our theme is Reading Voyages. Transformative texts can propel us through time and space while always returning us home and to ourselves once again, often with a new sense of self. We learn about other people and other times; we learn that they have loved and laughed, suffered and cried as we do; we learn of our common humanity, but mostly we learn about ourselves. What reading voyages have you taken?
This contest asks students to reflect back on all the books they have loved since childhood to the books they have read in SCLA 101 and 102, and speak to how one (or more) inspires them. For contest details
see the flier here.
Winners of the Fall 2021 Cornerstone Contest 
Fall 2021 Cornerstone Contest
This fall the Cornerstone contest is seeking writings and artworks as well as other forms of creativity including videos and poetry inspired by our readings in Transformative Texts (SCLA 101 or 102).
Our theme is chance encounter. Reading is a form of encountering; to read is to fill our minds with voices that are not our own and to fill our hearts with emotions that we might never experience otherwise. Your SCLA classes encourage you to read outside of your comfort zones, to explore a new topic, listen to a new voice, and appreciate a new perspective. We are forever changed by the story and by the author.
Encountering a good book is only one example of such a transformative encounter. In your own creative way, please share with us your experience with one chance encounter—with a person, a place, a text, a hobby, a form of art, an alternative perspective, etc.—that enchanted and changed you. You can also portray an imaginary chance encounter that challenges and transforms your fictional characters. For contest details see
the flier here.
Winners of the Spring 2021 Cornerstone Contest 
Spring 2021 Cornerstone Contest
This Spring Semester, Purdue’s Cornerstone program is celebrating “the book” with a contest for our students.
Books take us on journeys; they open our eyes to new vistas and ideas; they can change our lives, become our companions, even our mentors and spiritual guides. Books challenge us, inform us, infuriate us, and transform us. We can write in them, display them, use them for doorstops; and hide love letters and press fall leaves in them. They can hold our secrets. What do books mean to you?
Our Spring 2021 contest seeks artwork as well as other forms of creativity including videos and poetry based on our readings in Transformative Texts (SCLA 101 or 102). Winning artwork entries will be considered for exhibition in the new Cornerstone Reading Room in HSSE Library (grand opening Fall 2021) and all entries will be considered for publication in the
Cornerstone Review. For contest details see
the flier here
Winners of the Fall 2020 Cornerstone Contest
Fall 2020 Cornerstone Contest
The COVID pandemic continues to reshape our world. How has the pandemic transformed your vision of yourself and your future? And, how have your readings in Transformative Texts this Fall Semester helped you think about your new life in this new world? Is there a poem, a character in a novel, or simply a few lines in one of your readings that resonates with you now more than ever?
Student can choose to write a short reflective essay or short story or give a speech or create one long poem, a series of short poems or series of artwork inspired by your experiences in our transformed world and by your readings in SCLA 101/102. Please write/speak/create from the heart. This is about your vision. For contest details see the flier here.
