2007

'UK Network for Modern Fiction Studies Summer Research Seminar Series 2007 (UK)', 13th June; 27th June; 11th July; 25th July; 1st August, at The University of Westminster. Speakers included: Rebecca Mitchell (“Dorothy Parker and Ambrose Bierce: A Sardonic Tradition”), Grazia Ghellini (“Transcultural negotiations in Helena Frith-Powell’s Ciao Bella”), Gabriella Beckles (“Controlling Images of Mixed Race Women and the ‘New Racism), Dougal McNeill (“Realism at War: Pat Barker’s Regeneration Trilogy”), Kanika Batra (“Dollar Developmentalism: Post-colonised Nations, Feminism and Recent Caribbean Women’s Fiction”), Rossie Artemis (“The Sublime “Object” of Desire: Jeanette Winterson’s Written on the Body’), Mary Leonard, ("Djuna Barnes, Emily Brontë and the Yearning for a Hermetic Heaven."), Patrick Lawrence ("Holocaust Memoir, Paul de Man, and the Differend Between".), Magdalena Maczyska (“Postsecular London Fiction”), Brook Miller (“The New Age and American Culture).

2006

'UK Network for Modern Fiction Studies Summer Research Seminar Series 2006 (UK)', 14th June; 28th June; 12th July; 26th July; 4th September 2006, at The University of Westminster. The sessions were convened by: Steve Barfield, Fiona Talon and Ian Foakes. Speakers included: Rebecca Steinberger (“What is Gretta the Subject of? Mother Ireland in James Joyce’s ‘The Dead’”), Zachary Snider (“The Alternation of the Millennial Postmodern New York Social Fiction Novel”), Debbie Cutshaw (“Dust as a Signifier in Owen Wister’s The Virginian: A Horseman of the Plains), Nick Hubble (“From the Point of View of the Left: Iain Banks, Ken MacLeod and China Miéville.’), Fiona Tolan (“Postfeminism/Neo-Darwinism: Feminism and Science in Margaret Atwood’s Oryx and Crake”), Jessica Gildersleeve (“The Fragmented Feminine: Virginia Woolf’s Night and Day” ).

2005

'UK Network for Modern Fiction Studies Summer Research Seminar Series 2005(UK)', 29th June; 6th July; 13th July; 3rd August 2005, at The University of Westminster. The sessions were convened by: Andrew Eastham, Sonya Andermahr (University College Northampton), Philip Tew (Brunel), Steve Barfield (University of Westminster). Speakers included: Stephen Benson ("Something familiar": Reading Melody in James Hamilton-Paterson's Gerontius'); Andrew Eastham (“Inoperative Ironies: Jamesian Aestheticism in Alan Hollinghurst’s The Line of Beauty”), Laura Coffey (“The Mediation of Historical Loss Through Nostalgia in Evelyn Waugh's Brideshead Revisited'), Caryn M. Voskuil (‘Damned if She Does, Damned if She Doesn't:The Classical Structure of ‘The Feminine’ in Gone With the Wind’), Alex Murray (‘Between History and Language: Giorgio Agamben and Theorising the Impossible act of Writing’), Sonya Andermahr ( 'Woolf, Stevenson and Intertextuality: Jeanette Winterson's Lighthousekeeping'), and Sarah Dauncey ("The Islands are Very Quiet": Space and Silence in Conrad's Victory').

2004

'Criticism and Theory (UK)', various summer seminars with discussion topics on theory and philosophy, the interface of philosophy and literature, and theoretical readings of literature; 30th June; 14th July; 28th July; Aug 11th; Aug 25th 2004, The University of Westminster.

Teaching Contemporary British Fiction, Symposium, Saturday May 29th 2004, The University of Westminster. (Held jointly with the English Department of the University and in association with the British Council).

'Interpreting Myth in the Contemporary British Novel, or Understanding the Mythopoeic', double panel at North-Eastern Modern Languages Association Annual Conference, Pittsburgh, USA. Chairs: Lynn Wells and Philip Tew. Speakers included: Philip Tew, Lynn Wells (Regina Canada), Nancy Srebro (University of Pennsylvania), Dr. Brad Buchanan (Sacramento State University), Dr. Leigh Wilson (University of Westminster), Michelle Buchberger (Franklin University), Jared McGeough (Dalhousie University, Canada) Dr. Robert A. Morace. (Daemen College, Amherst NY).

2003

'Re-reading the Ruins: Samuel Beckett's Short Drama, Prose & Other Fragments II', Colloquium, Saturday May 31st 2003, University of Westminster. (Held jointly with the English Department of the University).

'Radicality, Criticism and Reality, Considering the Past, the Present and the Future of Challenging Critiques', a one-day conference, Saturday September 27th 2003, The Centre for Critical Practice, School of English, University of Central England, Birmingham.

2002

Dr. Richard Lane convened a seminar series / reading group at the Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, on Heidegger and the relationship of his work to theory, literature and culture.

'Death and the Metaphysics of Finitude in Contemporary British Fiction' panel at North-Eastern Modern Languages Association Annual Conference, Toronto, Canada. Speakers included Philip Tew, Richard Lane and Steve Barfield.

2001

'Beckett's Three Dialogues: A Critical Reappraisal', Conference, South Bank University, 10th November 2001, featuring Professor Andrew Gibson (Royal Holloway).

The proceedings of the "Beckett's Three Dialogues: A Critical Reappraisal" conference were published in the refereed journal Samuel Beckett Today /Aujourd'hui, Vol. 13. 'Three Dialogues Revisited / Les Trois dialogues revisités', edited Marius Buning, Matthijs Engelberts, Sjef Houppermans, Danièle de Ruyter-tognotti (Amsterdam & Atlanta: Rodopi, 2003). (ISSN Hb: 90-420-0808-3/ Pb: 90-420-1197-1).

Seminar and Lecture series at the University of Debrecen, Hungary in 2001 (following 5 dates):

• March: Dr. Rod Mengham, Director of Studies in English, Jesus College, Cambridge - guest lectures and creative writing seminar.
• March: Steve Barfield, Senior Lecturer in English, University of Westminster, seminar on psychoanalysis and contemporary British Fiction - Pat Barker's, The Ghost Road.
• April: Dr. Richard Lane, Senior Lecturer in English and Postcolonial Literatures, South Bank University - MA level teaching programme on travel writing of the 1930s (supported by British Council, Budapest).
• April: Dr. Wendy Wheeler, Reader in English, University of North London, visiting scholar programme - PhD teaching programme on Modernism/ Postmodernism.
• May: Novelist Jonathan Coe - visiting author programme: seminars and readings at Szeged and Debrecen Universities; this also supported research into B. S. Johnson with Hungarian academics and publishers including Budapest University (ELTE), Szeged University and Corvino Publishing House.

2000

'Coming of Age: New Voicing in Contemporary British Fiction 1979 - 2000', Colloquium, 27th January 2000, Jesus College, Cambridge University.

'One Culture? The Thematics of Art, Science and Change in the Twenty-First Century', Conference, 27th May 2000, University of North London, featuring Professor Chris Norris (Cardiff) and Professor Patricia Waugh (Durham).

The proceedings of the 'One Culture?' conference were published as a special edition of the refereed journal New Formations: A Journal of Culture / Theory / Politics, Number 49, Spring 2003, 'Complex Figures', guest editors Dr. Philip Tew and Dr. Wendy Wheeler. (ISSN: 0 950 2378).

'The Remains of the Day: Theorizing Archival Marginalia' Conference, 1st June 2000, South Bank University.

1999

'Contemporary British Fiction' 2nd June 1999, British Library Conference Centre featuring A. L. Kennedy, Iain Sinclair, Will Self, Professor Simon Critchley (Essex University), and Professor James Diedrick (Albion College, Michigan)

'"The Capital of Ruins": Beckett's Prose Fragments', Conference, 3rd June 1999 South Bank University featuring Professor Mary Bryden, Professor Stanley Gontarski (Florida State University) and Professor Lois Oppenheim (Montclair State University).

'Forgotten Voices of the Twentieth Century' Colloquium, 5th June 1999, University of Westminster, featuring Professor Philip Goldstein (University of Delaware), Dr. Tamas Benyei (University of Debrecen), and Professor Jeremy Green (University of Colorado). (This was also part of the University of Westminster, English Literature Colloquia series.)

The proceedings of the 'Forgotten Voices' conference were published as a special edition of a refereed journal, HJEAS: The Hungarian Journal of English and American Studies, 'Forgotten Voices', 5 (2) Autumn/ Winter 1999 (ISSN 1218-7364), edited jointly by Dr. Philip Tew and Dr. Tamas Benyei (University of Debrecen).