March 2007

Presentation at 'Music of Japan Today 2007'

UMBC (University of Maryland, Baltimore County), Baltimore, USA

'Japanese Composers in the multicultural UK: identity tactics and self-exoticism'

July 2004

Presentation at 'Orality & Improvisation in East Asian Music'

9th International CHIME (European Society of Chinese Music) Meeting, University of Sorbonne, Paris

'The Oral Tradition of Japanese Blind Mediums, considering their calling of dead spirits as Musical Improvisation'

Attendance was supported by City University and Open University

April 2003

Presentation at 'Music of Japan Today 2003'

UMBC (University of Maryland, Baltimore County), Baltimore, USA

'Childminder of Takeda'

Attendance supported by City University

September 2001

Presentation at 'Music and Meaning in China and East Asia'

CHIME (European Society of Chinese Music), Venice, Italy'Lullaby as Worksong, Popular Song and Protest Song'

Attendance funded by AHRB