Talks

Talks

Invited Talks

  1. Salvatore V. De Sando. "Early South Asian and South Asian American Students at the University of Illinois". Spurlock Museum. March 21, 2019. [www][Instagram]
  2. Salvatore De Sando. "Early Latin American and Latinx Cultural Organizations at the University of Illinois". Lunch @ La Casa Lecture Series. La Casa Cultural Latina. April 12, 2018. [www][Twitter]
  3. Salvatore Victor De Sando. "Early Asian and Asian American Pacific Islander Students at the University of Illinois". Food for Thought Lecture Series. Asian American Cultural Center. February 13, 2018. [www]
  4. Salvatore V. De Sando. "Early Polish Students at the University of Illinois". Wigilia and Cultural Showcase. (Christmas Eve Dinner). Zagloba Polish Club. December 2, 2017.
  5. Salvatore V. De Sando. "Early Turkish Students at the University of Illinois". Cumhuriyet Bayramı. (Republic Day). Turkish Student Association. October 28, 2017.
  6. Salvatore Victor De Sando. "Early Latin American and Latinx Students at the University of Illinois". Lunch @ La Casa Lecture Series. La Casa Cultural Latina. September 28, 2017. [www][Facebook]
  7. Salvatore V. De Sando. "Creating Bibliographic Resources: The Albert Howe Lybyer Papers and the University of Illinois' Middle East Collection". Center for South Asian and Middle Eastern Studies. October 13, 2014. [www][Facebook][Twitter]

Panel Presentations and Talks

  1. Terry Vaughan III, Xiuying "Sophy" Cai, Issac Akande, Salvatore V. De Sando, HeyJin Tina Yeo, Rashid V. Robinson, Autumn A. Griffin, Jessica Harless, and Meghan A. Kessler. "Updates on the Educational Theory Pre-Conference Workshop". 8th Annual College of Education Graduate Student Conference: Education, Public Values, and Privatization. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Champaign, Illinois. March 31, 2017.
  2. Salvatore V. De Sando. "Internationalizing Illini: International Students in the News at the University of Illinois, 1867-1967". Educational Theory Pre-conference Workshop.8th Annual College of Education Graduate Student Conference: Education, Public Values, and Privatization. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Champaign, Illinois. March 30, 2017.
  3. Salvatore V. De Sando. "Integrating and Disintegrating: East European Student Cultural Organizations of the University of Illinois, 1867 to 1967." Graduate Student Conference in Slavic Studies: Decentering Russia: Challenging the Boundaries. April 15-16, 2016. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. April 16, 2016.
  4. "Through the Glass: A New UIC Writing Center Publication”. Spring 2009 Writing Day. University of Illinois at Chicago. Chicago, Illinois. April 9, 2009.

Poster Presentations

  1. Salvatore V. De Sando. “Peer-Based Tutoring: A Cultural Practice of an Academic Workplace Community”. Midwest Undergraduate Anthropology Research Symposium. Northwestern University. Evanston, Illinois. April 17, 2009.
  2. Salvatore V. De Sando. “Defining the Writing Center Community”. Research Proposal. Midwest Undergraduate Anthropology Research Symposium. Northwestern University. Evanston, Illinois. May 19, 2008.

Public Performance

  1. Audrius V. Plioplys, Luka Saparnis, and Sam De Sando (Narrators). "Exile Letters". Hope and Spirit. Curated by Audrius V. Plioplys, MD. Balzekas Museum of Lithuanian Culture. January 21, 2012. This was a public reading of historic correspondence from Lithuanian deportees living in Siberia, as a special event of the temporary museum exhibit Hope and Spirit. Following an impressive positive reception from attendees, the exhibit curator produced a documentary in which my fellow narrators and I were able to read again. The 60-minute-long documentary is available online. [YouTube]

Workshops

  1. Beth Godbee, Manisha Pathak-Shelat, Priscilla Lizasuain, and Salvatore De Sando. “Acting Out: Antiracism and Boal’s Theatre of the Oppressed”. Wisconsin Council for Teachers of English Convention. Milwaukee, Wisconsin. October 23, 2009.
  2. Cynthia White, Sal De Sando, Ash Kini, Kimberly Norris, and Priscilla Lizasuain. “Anti-Oppressive Tutoring”. 2009 East Central Writing Centers Association. West Lafayette, Indiana. Purdue University. April 3 to April 4, 2009. [pdf]
  3. Beth Godbee, Frankie Condon, Moira Ozias, Priscilla Lizasuain, Kristy Rieger, Ashvin Kini, Kimberly Norris, Cynthia White, and Sal De Sando. "Antiracist Activism: Discussion about what writing centers and other organizations can do to make these institutions more critical and conscious, and more anti-racist". October 31, 2008. [pdf]
    1. This was cited multiple times in: Mandy Suhr-Sytsma and Shan-Estelle Brown. “Theory in/to Practice: Addressing the Everyday Language of Oppression in the Writing Center.” The Writing Center Journal Volume 31. Number 2. Pages 13–49. 2011. [www]