Location
Tim Cadbury / Music Room
Ageing and Space Symposium
11 December 2025, 9am-12.30pm
This event is organised as part of the “Reimagining Lifecourse” project at Keio University X Dignity Centre, Japan & Precarious Ageing Research Network at CRASSH, University of Cambridge. For inquires, please contact Katsura Sako.
The event is free and open to all, but places are limited. Please register via the Google Form before 9 December 2025 at 5pm (UK time).
Schedule
9.00am - 9.10am: Welcome
9.10am - 10.30am:
- Katsura Sako (Keio University/Downing College), “Ageing, Walking and Home in Walking Memoirs”
- Aagje Swinnen (Maastricht University), "Human Forever (2023) and Ben jij bij mij/Are You With Me (2021): Dutch Dementia Documentaries against Dehumanization“
- Iza Kavedžija (University of Cambridge), “Creating ibasho: Community Spaces for Aging with Dignity in Japan”
10.30am - 11am: Break
11am - 12.20pm:
- Elizabeth Barry (University of Warwick), '"Only touch me, for my hand is tender”: Ageing, Space and Touch in the Work of Charles Dickens”
- Heike Hartung (Potsdam University), “Literature at the End of Life: Challenges to Genre and the Writer’s Identity in the Case of Jenny Diski”
- Sarah Falcus (Independent Scholar), “Between the Wild and the Domestic: Gardens, Age and Generation in Children’s Picturebooks”