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“Ageing, Walking and Home in Walking Memoirs”
Katsura Sako
[International presentation] Ageing and Space (Downing College, University of Cambridge) ,
2025.12,Oral presentation (general)
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"Kinship, the Generational Relationship and the Future in Contemporary Speculative Fiction"
Katsura Sako
Literature, Film, and the Desirability of Life Extension (University of Oxford) ,
2025.12,Oral presentation (invited, special)
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"Ageing and Narratives of Walking"
Katsura Sako
The Lifespan: Perspectives on Ageing and the Life Course from the Medical Humanities, the Health Sciences and Age Studies,
2025.06,Oral presentation (general)
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'Ageing and Walking a Path'
Katsura Sako
[International presentation] European Network in Aging Studies (Lleida) ,
2025.04,Oral presentation (general), University of Lleida
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"Gardens, Age and Generation in Children’s Picturebooks"
Katsura Sako
Ageing and Literature (Keio University) ,
2024.04,Symposium, workshop panel (public)
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“Gardens, Age and Generation in Children’s Picturebooks”
Sarah Falcus and Katsura Sako
[International presentation] Within and Without: Representations of Ageing: International Symposium III: Special Issue (Online) ,
2024.01,Oral presentation (invited, special), University of Lisbon Centre for English Studies
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Ageing, Care and Death in Children’s Picturebooks from Japan and the UK
Katsura Sako and Sarah Falcus
[International presentation] Age and Care Graz 2023: Aging in a Caring Society? Theories in Conversation (University of Graz, Austria) ,
2023.09,Oral presentation (general)
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“The Family, Generations and the Posthuman Future in 'Years and Years'"
Katsura Sako and Maricel Oró-Piqueras
[International presentation] "Recent Approaches to the Posthuman: Cultural Reflections on the (Post-)Human Condition: 18th International Conference on Contemporary Narratives in English" (Zaragoza) ,
2023.05,Oral presentation (general), University of Zaragoza
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“Intergenerationality, Age, and Environment in Children’s Picturebooks”
Katsura Sako and Sarah Falcus
[International presentation] European Network in Aging Studies and North American Network in Aging Studies Joint Conference (Bucharest, Romania (online)) ,
2022.09-2022.10,Oral presentation (general)
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"Children, care and the posthuman future in Klara and the Sun"
Sarah Falcus and Katsura Sako
[International presentation] 16th Conference of European Society for the Study of English (Mainz, Germany) ,
2022.08-2022.09,Oral presentation (general)
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UK Children’s Picturebooks: Care, Kinship and Masculinity
Sarah Falcus and Katsura Sako
[International presentation] Masculinities Aging Between Cultures: Methods and Concepts in Dialogue (University of Rostock, Germany (online)) ,
2021.04,Oral presentation (general)
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Late-life Friendship in Grace and Frankie: Changing Relationship Paradigms in Old Age?
Maricel Oró Piqueras & Katsura Sako
Discourses of Fictional (Digital) TV Series Conference (University of Valencia (online)) ,
2020.11 -
Care and the child-grandparent relationship in children’s picturebooks in Japan
Katsura Sako and Sara Falcus
[International presentation] 9th International Health Humanities Conference (St Luke's International University) ,
2020.10,Oral presentation (general), St Luke's International University & Health Humanities Study Group
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"Dementia, familial care and the politics of nostalgia in Japanese cinemative narratives"
Katsura Sako
[International presentation] Ageing, Illness, Care in Literary and Cultural Narratives (University of Huddersfield, UK) ,
2019.09,Oral presentation (general)
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Family and Nostalgia in Contemporary Japanese film about Dementia
Katsura Sako
[International presentation] North American Network in Aging Studies (Peterborough, Canada) ,
2019.05,Oral presentation (general), Trent University
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‘Dementia in Japanese Children’s Picturebooks’
SAKO Katsura
'Writing Wrongs', Contemporary Women's Writing Association Conference (University of Northumbria, UK) ,
2018.09,Oral presentation (general), Contemporary Women's Writing Association
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'Dementia in Children's Picturebooks'
SAKO Katsura
[International presentation] Dementia and Cultural Narrative (Aston University) ,
2017.12,Oral presentation (general), Aston University and University of Huddersfield
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'Reimagining Flânerie in The Walworth Beauty'
Sarah Falcus and Katsura SAKO
[International presentation] Reading Michèle Roberts (Łódź, Poland) ,
2017.09,Oral presentation (general), Department of British Literature and Culture, University of Lodz, Poland
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'Dementia and Generational Time in Contemporary Fiction in English'
Sarah Falcus and SAKO Katsura
[International presentation] The Third Conference of European Network in Aging Studies,
2017.04,Oral presentation (general)
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‘Dementia and Generational Time in Kirsty Wark’s The Legacy of Elizabeth Pringle (2014) and Adele Parks’ Whatever It Takes (2012)’
Sarah Falcus and SAKO Katsura
[International presentation] The 13th Conference of the European Society for the Study of English (Galway, Ireland) ,
2016.08,Oral presentation (general)
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Round Table: Dementia in Literature
SAKO Katsura and Sarah Falcus
[International presentation] Ageing, Embodiment and the Self (Coventry) ,
2016.03,Symposium, workshop panel (nominated), Elizabeth Barry, University of Warwick
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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,Oral presentation (general), BAS
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'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,Oral presentation (general), Contemporary Women's Writing Association
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'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,British Society of Gerontology
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‘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,Oral presentation (general)
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'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,Oral presentation (general)
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'Dementia Time in Contemporary Fiction'
SAKO Katsura
[International presentation] University of Leicester School of English Research Seminar (University of Leicester) ,
2015.03,Oral presentation (invited, special), School of English, University of Leicester
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'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,Oral presentation (invited, special), School of Music, Humanities and Media, University of Huddersfield
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'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,Oral presentation (general), RMIT, Monash and Deakin Universities
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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,Oral presentation (general)
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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,Oral presentation (general), Contemporary Women's Writing Association
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'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,Oral presentation (general)
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'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,Oral presentation (general)
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'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,Oral presentation (general)
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'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,Oral presentation (general)
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'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,Oral presentation (general), Contemporary Women’s Writing Network
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'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,Oral presentation (general)
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'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,Oral presentation (general), Contemporary Women’s Writing Network
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'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,Oral presentation (general), NEMLA
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'"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,Oral presentation (general), NEMLA
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「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
[Domestic presentation] 第75回日本英文学会全国大会 (成蹊大学) ,
2003.05,Oral presentation (general), 日本英文学会
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