The Centre hosts regular conferences; for further details of conferences which have taken place, please see the list below.
- ‘Alone Together: Changing Forms of Sociability from the Rise of Modernism to the Digital Age’ (17–18 September 2020)
- ‘Métamorphoses d’Apollinaire’ (22-23 October 2018)
- Play, Recreation and Experiement (9 December 2017)
- The West-Eastern Lyric Modernt Poetry between Asia and Europe (17 November 2017)
- Samuel Beckett and World Literature (4-5 May 2016)
- ‘What Commitment? Reshaping Impegno in Contemporary Italy’ (5-6 June 2015)
- ‘Art, Language, Poetry: From Kant to Heidegger’ (10-11 September 2014)
- Identity, Memory, Place: Amélie Nothomb – Past, Present and Future (15-16 May 2014)
- Suhrkamp and European Literature (13-14 March 2014)
- Paris-Tokyo-Paris: Responses to Japan in French Art, Culture and Theory since 1945 (6-7 September 2013)
- ‘Material Meanings’: Third Biannual Conference of the European Network for Avant-Garde and Modernism Studies (7-9 September 2012)
- Contemporary Women’s Representations of Wounded Bodies and Minds (18-19 November 2011)
- Modernist Eroticisms (19-20 May 2011)
- Influence: Shifting Perspectives (14-16 April 2011)
- L’autobiographie en langue française au 21ème siècle (11 December 2010)
- Archive: The British Comparative Literature Association XIIth International Conference (5-8 July 2010)
- ‘The Plastic Expression the Fruitful Sphere’: European Poets and Sculptors in the 20th Century (20 November 2009)
- Ambiguities: Destabilising Preconceptions – Skepsi Postgraduate Conference (22-23 May 2009)
- Jean Améry: Literatur zwischen Erinnerung, Politik und Selbstsuche (22-24 January 2009)