Presentations -

'Thinking about Dementia Care and Ethics through Cultural Representations in Post-War Japan'

SAKO Katsura and Sarah Falcus

Ageing in Changing Times: Challenges and Future Prospects, 44th Annual BSG Conference 2015 (Newcastle upon Tyne, UK) , 

2015.07

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British Society of Gerontology

‘Dementia in Children’s Books’

Sarah Falcus and Katsura Sako

Aging and Age Studies: Foundations and Formations, Inaugural Research Conference of the North American Network in Aging Studies (NANAS) (Miami University, OH) , 

2015.05

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Oral presentation (general)

'Dementia and the Narrative of Detection’

SAKO Katsura

Aging and Age Studies: Foundations and Formations, Inaugural Research Conference of the North American Network in Aging Studies (NANAS) (Miami University, OH, US) , 

2015.05

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Oral presentation (general)

'Dementia Time in Contemporary Fiction'

SAKO Katsura

University of Leicester School of English Research Seminar (University of Leicester) , 

2015.03

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Oral presentation (invited, special), School of English, University of Leicester

'Representing dementia and care in post-war Japan: The Twighlight Years, Memoires of Tomorrow and Pecoross' Mother and Her Days'

Sarah Falcus and SAKO Katsura

University of Huddersfield English Literature and Creative Writing Research Seminar (University of Huddersfield) , 

2014.12

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Oral presentation (invited, special), School of Music, Humanities and Media, University of Huddersfield

'Representing Growing Old in the Contemporary World: Margaret Drabble’s The Pure Gold Baby (2013)'

SAKO Katsura

'Contemporary Women's Writing and Environments', The Fifth Biennial International Conference of Contemporary Women's Writing Association (State Library of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia) , 

2014.07

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Oral presentation (general), RMIT, Monash and Deakin Universities

Representing dementia and care in post-war Japan: The Twighlight Years, Memoires of Tomorrow and Pecoross' Mother and Her Days

Sarah Falcus and SAKO Katsura

'Meaning and Culture(s): Exploring the Life Course', The Second Conference of European Network in Aging Studies (National University of Ireland, Galway) , 

2014.04

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Oral presentation (general)

Travels to Italy: Women, Ageing and the Body in Liminal Space

Katsura Sako and Sarah Falcus

'(Wo)Man and the Body', The Fourth Biennial International Conference of the Contemporary Women's Writing Association (Taipei, Taiwan) , 

2012.07

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Oral presentation (general), Contemporary Women's Writing Association

'The Body, Memory and the Old Spirit in A. S. Byatt’s "The Pink Ribbon"'

SAKO Katsura

'Theorizing Age: Challenging the Disciplines', The European Network in Aging Studies Inaugural Conference (Maastricht, The Netherlands) , 

2011.10

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Oral presentation (general)

'Resisting Fatalism and the Decline Narrative: Margaret Drabble’s The Seven Sisters (2002)'

SAKO Katsura

New Cultures of Ageing Conference (University of Brunel, UK) , 

2011.04

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Oral presentation (general)

'Global Possibilities for Local Language Literature?: A Case of Contemporary Japanese Language Literature' (a revised version of the paper presented in the Global Imaginaries conference (2009))

SAKO Katsura

The Third Global Studies Conferencein (The paper was presented in the co-organised colloquium, 'The Fall of the Japanese Language?: Literary Anxiety in the Age of English') (Pusan National University, Busan, South Korea) , 

2010.06

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Oral presentation (general)

'Global Possibilities for Local Language Literature?: A Case of Contemporary Japanese Language Literature'

SAKO Katsura

Glocal Imaginaries: Writing/Migration/Place (University of Lancaster, UK) , 

2009.09

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Oral presentation (general)

'Can Women’s Diaspora Writing Resist Being Domesticated and Settled?'

SAKO Katsura

'Unsettling Women: Contemporary Women’s Writing and Diaspora', Contemporary Women's Writing Network (University of Leicester) , 

2008.07

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Oral presentation (general), Contemporary Women’s Writing Network

'The Matter of Metamorphosis in A. S. Byatt’s Fiction'

SAKO Katsura

Real Things: Matter, Materiality, Representation, 1880 to the Present (University of York) , 

2007.07

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Oral presentation (general)

'A Portrait of A. S. Byatt, an Academic, Critic and Novelist: The Synthesis of Imaginative and Critical Minds'

SAKO Katsura

'For Love or Money?: Contemporary Women’s Fiction in the Marketplace', The Inaugural Conference of Contemporary Women's Writing Network (University of Wales, Bangor) , 

2006.04

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Oral presentation (general), Contemporary Women’s Writing Network

'The Postscript of A. S. Byatt’s Possession: “the Real” of the Past for the Sense of an Ending'

SAKO Katsura

The 36th Northeast Modern Language Association Annual Convention (Boston, US) , 

2005.04

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Oral presentation (general), NEMLA

'"Her Voice Is Her Own?": Female Voice and the Re-Creation of the Victorian Age in Possession: A Romance and The French Lieutenant’s Woman

SAKO Katsura

The 35th Northeast Modern Language Association Annual Convention (Pittsburgh, US) , 

2004.03

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Oral presentation (general), NEMLA

「言葉の可能性探求と時代表象 —— A. S. Byattの The Virgin in the Garden と Still Life」

SAKO Katsura

第75回日本英文学会全国大会 (成蹊大学) , 

2003.05

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Oral presentation (general), 日本英文学会