December 2011 Qaisra Shahraz: “A Rainbow Feast: New Asian Short Stories” 

October 2011 Professor Margaret Doody (University of Notredame): “Bad Things Happen in Good Novels”

June 2011 Professor Brian McHale (Ohio State University) “Things then did not delay in turning curious”: Some Versions of Alice, 1966-2010 

June 2011 Professor Reed Dasenbrock (University of Hawaii) “Folds inthe Contemporary: How Far Apart Are the Post in Post-Modernism and the Post inPost-Colonial” 

June 2011 Professor Brian Richardson (University of Maryland) “Resituating the Present: Post modernism and the History of Unnatural Narratives” 

June 2011 Professor Ronald Schleifer (University of Oklahoma) “TheContemporary Humanities: Practical Reason and Practical Humanities Working withMedicine” 

June 2011 Professor Lisa Samuels (University of Auckland) “Contemporanullity and the Digitas”

June 2011 Professor Keith Hopper (Oxford University) “Truth is an odd number”: Flann O’Brien in his Centenary Year 

June 2011 Professor Ondřej Pilný (Charles University) “Did you put charcoal adroitly in the vent?”: Flann O’Brien and Pataphysics

June 2011 Professor Isaac Kerlow (Nanyang Technological University) “Sudden Nature: A Hybrid Contemporary Narrative”

June 2011 Professor Shirley Chew (University of Leeds / Nanyang Technological University) "All surface one moment […] all depth the next": Reading Contemporary, Reading Postcolonial 

June 2011 Professor Neil Murphy (Nanyang Technological University)Flann O’Brien’s The Hard Life: The Limits of the Real (The Contemporary)

April 2011 Dr. Sean Miller (University of London) “Breaking Writer’s Block”

April 2011 Suchen Christine Lim "Prose and Pancakes"

March 2011 Kathleene West: The Making of a Poet

February 2011 Nightjar Poetry Reading with Alvin Pang and Pooja Nansi

February 2011 Samuel Beckett Seminar by Professor Ellen Carol Jones

September 2010 Dr. Shelley Fisher Fishkin (Stanford University) "The Year of Mark Twain: Why His Legacy Continues"

March 2007 Dr Eric Caldwell (University of Virginia) "The Eros of Renaissance Subjectivity"

March 2006 Dr Bede Scott (University of Cambridge) "Partitioning Cities: Communal Violence , Minorities, and Urban Space"

February 2006 Ms Jini Kim Watson (Duke University) "The New Asian City: Postcolonial Modernity and the Aesthetics of Growth"

June 2005 Peter van de Kamp: "Joyce's Ulysses – a Bloomsday commentary." (held in Singapore Art Museum)

August 2005 Andy Williams: "A haughty disregard of costly things": femininity and consumer culture in Charles Dickens's Dombey and Son (1846-8).

August 2005 Francisco B. Benitez: "Comparative Literature, Figural Reading and Southeast Asian Literature: A Modest Proposal."