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'Ageing and Walking a Path'
Katsura Sako
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
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
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
"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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
'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
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
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
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
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
'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
'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
'(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
'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
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
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
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
'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
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
'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
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
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
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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