Sophomores interested in a PAID internship opportunity and paid summer on-campus housing for summer 2019?

Apply to be a 2019 McNair Scholar!

See the flyer below and be sure to submit your applications no later than February 15, 2019. More information can be found at https://mcnair.udel.edu/

Calling all Georgetown AAP students!
If you enjoy literature or writing, you are highly encouraged to sign up for the Peer Mentor conducted Flash Writing Contest in Georgetown!
On the weekend following Thanksgiving, a prompt will be emailed out with a theme which all submissions must contain. Students may contribute any piece of short fiction, however, poetry or flash fiction (short story) are highly suggested as a 25-line or 5 page length limit will be in place. You will get all weekend to write your story, and we will meet in the UD computer lab (room 182) during the common hour (4:00pm) on Monday, November 26 to discuss and share what we’ve written! Sharing during the open forum is not required, so don’t be shy!
All contests must have winners, so two pieces will be chosen and elected for publication on the UD AAP Blog/Website!

Interested in learning more or to sign up as a contestant, email Trevor Roe (trevoroe@udel.edu) prior to Black Friday (11/23) to secure a spot in the contest!
Also, please don’t hesitate to email Trevor if you have any questions, and LET’S GET READY TO WRITE!

Event Details

Saturday, October 20, 2018 | 10:00 a.m. – 2:30 p.m.

UD Downtown Center | 13 E 8th St., Wilmington, DE 19801 (8th and King Streets)

Cost: (Includes lunch)

$25 – General Admission

$10 – Delaware Teachers (show faculty ID at check-in)

$10 – Current Students (show student ID at check-in)

Getting There:

• Many DART buses stop at the corner of 8th and King Streets at the UD Downtown Center. The following lines serve that stop: Rts. 13, 16, 18, 20, 25, 31, 38, 45, 301.
• Covered parking is available under the Doubletree Hotel diagonally across King Street from the UD Downtown Center.

2018 marks the 50th anniversary of a year that changed our world. Join us on October 20 as we reflect on some of the events of that tumultuous year, the seismic cultural and political changes that made them possible, and the reverberations we feel to this day. Whether you remember 1968 personally or not, join us to hear and discuss these stimulating talks by UD faculty and alums:

Youth Activism in Wilmington, 1968. Simone Austin, UD MA History alum 

Wilmington was occupied by the National Guard for a record nine months after the unrest following Martin Luther King, Jr.’s assassination. This talk will focus on the role that youth, including University of Delaware and Delaware State University students, played leading up to the occupation of Wilmington. It will consider the grassroots efforts of the organization of the Wilmington Youth Emergency Action Council, while also connecting to a larger national movement of the Students for a Democratic Society.

Unsettling Images: Joseph Louw, Life Magazine, and the Assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr., Jason Hill, PhD, Assistant Professor and Associate Chair, Art History

The assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. was one of the most devastating events of 1968. This talk will consider this event’s photographic mediation as it unfolded in the pages of Life, the era’s most widely-read weekly photographic news magazine.  The sudden appearance of a set of photographs taken by the journalist Joseph Louw in the immediate aftermath of the crime necessitated a radical real-time restructuring (and fracturing) of the magazine itself.

Fifty Years of Fists and Knees: Connecting Black-Athlete Protest from 1968 to 2018, Drew Brown, PhD, Assistant Professor, Africana Studies

This talk will discuss the 50th anniversary of John Carlos and Tommie Smith raising their fists on the podium of the 1968 Mexico City Olympics and the impact it had on the current movement initiated by former NFL quarterback, Colin Kaepernick, who took a knee during the U.S. national anthem to protest the poor treatment of Black people in America.

The Music of ’68: People, Power, and Politics in a Pivotal Year, David Suisman, Associate Professor, History, and Coordinator, Hagley Program in the History of Capitalism, Technology, and Culture

From the Rolling Stones’ “Street Fighting Man” to James Brown’s “Say It Loud (I’m Black and I’m Proud)” to Aretha Franklin’s “Think,” popular music was an important social force in 1968. In a year known for its conflicts and divisions, music had great power to bring young people together and help them form a complex generational identity. While not all the music of 1968 was “revolutionary,” taken as a whole it gives voice the complex desire for change that so many people felt at the time. This talk analyzes the milestones, myths, and misconceptions about music in this fateful year.

SPECIAL NOTE: The University of Delaware may have photographers and videographers at this event. By attending this event, you grant the University of Delaware permission to publish or display photographic or video images of you. Images may be used in any promotional material, publications or other applications. Please let us know if you have any concerns.