Five Ways to Prepare for Convention
Dear 2018 Convention Attendees: The Sigma Tau Delta 2018 International Convention in Cincinnati, OH, is just around the corner and as everyone makes final preparations to embark on this annual pilgrimage, here are five last-minute…
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Countdown to the 2018 Convention: Last-Minute Tips
Convention! It's the biggest event Sigma Tau Delta hosts during the school year. This year, convention is March 21-24 in none other than the Queen City, Cincinnati, OH! [caption id="attachment_799" align="aligncenter" width="823"] 2017-2018 Student Leaders…
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Seek Your Freedom in our Escape Rooms!
Seeking Freedom Escape Room Friday, March 23, @ 8:30-11 p.m. Rookwood, 4 Escape Room Awards: 10:30 p.m. Sigma Tau Delta Student Leadership has the perfect event for this year's convention—as we all seek freedom mentally…
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Concurrent Sessions
Please pass this announcement along to anyone attending (or considering attending) the Sigma Tau Delta 2018 International Convention, March 21 – 24 in Cincinnati, OH. The convention schedule is now complete. Information for Presenters, Moderators,…
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Cincy Highlights
With the Sigma Tau Delta 2018 International Convention in Cincinnati, OH, only six weeks away, it's time to start getting excited by planning how you will spend some of your downtime and where you will…
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The Comma Queen Comes to Convention
Join us in Cincinnati, OH, at the Sigma Tau Delta 2018 International Convention for one of this year's featured speakers: Comma Queen Mary Norris. On Friday, March 23, from 9:30 to 10:45 a.m. during Concurrent…
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Plan on Joining Sigma Tau Delta in Cincinnati!
Our judges' decisions about the submissions for the Sigma Tau Delta 2018 International Convention have been made. You should have received an email from [email protected] yesterday (if you submitted and didn't receive an email, you…
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Why You Should Submit to Convention
The deadline to submit to the Sigma Tau Delta 2018 International Convention in Cincinnati, OH, is Monday, October, 30 at 5 p.m. Central Daylight Time (CDT). In this week’s blog, High Plains Student Representative Mercedes…
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Convention: No Zombie Speakers Here
We’ve all been there—stuck listening to a speaker who drones on and on, like a zombie, while we wish we could just escape before our brains are consumed by boredom. But, luckily, the Convention Committee…
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The Book of Unknown Americans Empowers, Connects Us
Introductory note: I wanted the first words on this year's Common Reader to come from the former student and Sigma Tau Delta member who first introduced me to this remarkable novel. Jose Alfredo Anaya graduated…
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Freedom. It’s a beautiful thing, a necessary thing, the thing without which nothing else matters—“needful to man as air,” as Robert Hayden writes in his poem “Frederick Douglass.” But, like air, how can you hold freedom in your hand, or even know for certain when you have it, or keep it in your tenuous grasp? We all are moved to this quest, from children seeking the freedom of adulthood, to people looking for refuge from natural disaster or any of the many kinds of disaster man wreaks, to those working to throw off oppression. As Sigma Tau Deltans, we know that language is a powerful tool of liberation. Words can change the real state of human being, can remake a person from a slave to a citizen. In Cincinnati, the landing stage of the promised land for travelers on the Underground Railroad and the home of Harriet Beecher Stowe, we meet to seek the freedom that only the realm of the imaginary made real through language can create. What is the story of your search for freedom, that “beautiful, needful thing”?
Sept. 25: Submissions Link Opens
Oct. 30: Submissions Deadline
Nov. 16: List of accepted roundtables posted
Dec. 18: List of accepted papers posted
Jan. 4: Early Registration Opens
