Presentations -

Round Table: Dementia in Literature

SAKO Katsura and Sarah Falcus

[International presentation]  Ageing, Embodiment and the Self (Coventry) , 

2016.03

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Symposium, workshop panel (nominated), Elizabeth Barry, University of Warwick

Dementia in Children's Picture Books

SAKO Katsura and Sarah Falcus

[International presentation]  BAS Ageing, Body and Society Study Group Conference 2016: Ageing and Culture (Manchester) , 

2016.02

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Oral presentation (general), BAS

'Dementia and Detective Fiction'

SAKO Katsura

[International presentation]  'Legacies and Lifespans: Contemporary Women's Writing in the 21st Century', The 10th Anniversary Conference of Contemporary Women's Writing Association (University of Brighton, Brighton, UK) , 

2015.10

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

'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

[International presentation]  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

[International presentation]  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

[International presentation]  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

[International presentation]  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

[International presentation]  '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

[International presentation]  '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

[International presentation]  '(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

[International presentation]  '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

[International presentation]  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

[International presentation]  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

[International presentation]  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

[International presentation]  '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

[International presentation]  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

[International presentation]  '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

[International presentation]  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

[International presentation]  The 35th Northeast Modern Language Association Annual Convention (Pittsburgh, US) , 

2004.03

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Oral presentation (general), NEMLA