The 46th Comparative Literature Conference: Microfascisms was held on June 1, 2024, in collaboration with the Comparative Literature Association of the Republic of China (CLAROC). The keynote address, “The Blind Spot of Contemporary Literary Studies: (Micro)Fascisms, Neoliberalism, and Post-Criticism”, was delivered by Professor Chun-yen Chen of National Taiwan University. Throughout the one-day conference, thirty-five papers were presented by distinguished scholars from Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Japan, with over 100 participants registered for the event. A special issue featuring selected papers from the conference will be published in the Chung-Wai Literary Quarterly (THCI).

APLX 2023, the department's biennial linguistics-oriented conference, was held at TAIPEI TECH GIS Convention Center on October 11 through October 13, 2023 and was organized in collaboration with the English Teaching and Research Association and the Taiwan ESP Association. The main theme for APLX 2023 is “Advancing empowerment and resilience: Language, culture, policy and pedagogy.” The keynote speakers are

Over 100 papers were accepted and presented (73 oral presentations and 35 poster presentations). Over 200 people (from the US, Canada, Japan, Hong Kong, Spain, the Philippines, Taiwan, Singapore, and Thailand) attended the conference in person. For more information regarding the conference, please visit the APLX 2023 website.

Memory: The Captive and the Fugitive (Home | Memory (taipeitechlc2022)) was held on November 21–22, 2022. Professor David Hertz of Indiana University Bloomington gave the opening keynote address, “Proust, Cognition, and the Arts.” Professor Jonathan White of the University of Essex gave the second keynote speech, "Dilemmas of Memory in Literature of Slavery, the Holocaust, and other Cultural Trauma",  as the closing address of the first day. More than sixty papers were presented at the two-day conference, including thirty-nine presented by overseas scholars from the U.S., the UK, Canada, China, Hong Kong, Portugal, Poland, France, India, the Philippines, Romania, Singapore, India, Thailand, and Vietnam. Over 100 people registered in total. A special issue including selected papers presented at the conference will be published by The Wenshan Review: Literature and Culture (THCI) in 2025. 

APLX 2021, the department's biennial linguistics-oriented conference, was held at TAIPEI TECH GIS Convention Center on October 28 through October 29, 2021. The main theme for APLX 2021 is: “Language, culture & policy: foreign language learning and bilingualism.” The keynote speakers are:

• Dr. Ernesto Macaro (Emeritus Professor, Worcester College, the University of Oxford, UK) - "English Medium Instruction in HE: Student support and teacher professional development Issues"
• Dr. Ron I. Thomson (Professor, Brock University, Canada) - "The importance of perceptual training in second language pronunciation learning"
• Dr. Becky H. Huang (Associate Professor, University of Texas at San Antonio, USA) - "Assessing speaking proficiency in young bilingual/English as an additional language (EAL) learners"
• Dr. Andy Gao (Associate Professor, University of New South Wales, Australia) - "Identity constructions of ESP teachers"

45 papers were accepted and presented. Over 150 people (from the US, Canada, Japan, Vietnam, Australia, Taiwan, and UK) attended the conference in person or online. For more information regarding the conference, please visit the APLX 2021 website.

APLX 2019, the department's biennial linguistics-oriented conference, was held at TAIPEI TECH GIS Convention Center on October 31 through November 1, 2019. The main theme for APLX 2019 is: “Trends and Issues: Language, Culture, Translation and Bilingual Education.” Prof. Martha Bigelow from the University of Minnesota and Dr. Minako O'Hagan from the University of Auckland, New Zealand were invited to respectively give the keynote speeches "The intercultural and the interpersonal in world language teaching: Changing the world one class at a time" and “The Human and the Machine: The future of work for translators and linguists.” 45 papers from Hong Kong, Japan, Macau, Malaysia, the Philippines, Vietnam, Indonesia, Taiwan, the UK, and the United States of America were presented, and 332 participated. For more information regarding the conference, please visit the APLX 2019 website.

Literary Fantasy and Its Discontents was held on November 23–24, 2018. Prof. Marysa Demoor of Ghent University gave the opening keynote address, “From Hellish Fantasy to British Discontent: Analyzing the Construction of Nationalism in the Nineteenth-century Fantastic.” Prof. Ackbar Abbas of the University of California, Irvine gave the Saturday keynote address, “Documentary As Fantasy; or, Documentary in the Era of Its Impossibility.” Dr. Thomas Wall, associate professor of Taipei Tech English department, gave a Saturday morning featured talk, “No One Ought to be Born: Morality, Fantasy, and Pessimism in the Thinking of David Benatar.” More than fifty papers were presented at the conference. Three-fourths of conference presenters came from abroad, with papers from scholars from the U.S., Taiwan, the UK, Australia, Canada, Belgium, China, Hong Kong, Japan, Norway, Germany, India, the Philippines, Poland, South Korea, Spain, and the Netherlands. Over 130 people registered in total.

The Department of English held its biennial linguistics-oriented conference, APLX 2017, at TAIPEI TECH GIS Convention Center from November 16-17, 2017. The main theme for APLX 2017 is: “Transformation and Development: Language, Culture, Pedagogy, and Translation.” In keeping with the conference theme, Honorary Professor Stephen J. Andrews from University of Hong Kong and Prof. Leo Tak-hung Chan from Lingnan University, Honk Kong were invited to respectively give the keynote speeches “Language Awareness and Teacher Development” and “English as Lingua Academica in the Chinese Context: A view from the Perspective of Translation.” 59 papers, poster presentations included, from Hong Kong, Japan, Macau, Malaysia, the Philippines, Tanzania, Taiwan, Thailand, the United Arab Emirates, the United States of America, and Vietnam were presented, and around two hundred participated. For more information regarding the conference, please visit the APLX 2017 website.

Forgotten Books and Cultural Memory was held on May 27–28, 2016. Dr. James Mussell of the University of Leeds gave the opening keynote address, “It Begins with the Printer: Memory, Books and the Library.” Dr. Rebecca Krug of the University of Minnesota gave the Saturday keynote address, “Lost and Found: Margery Kempe’s Book and 600 Years of History.” Dr. Eivind Røssaak, visiting professor at Taipei Tech from the National Library of Norway, gave a Saturday lunchtime talk, “Forgotten Books After the Digital.” There were fifty-six additional paper presentations from scholars working in multiple fields, including literature (in English, Chinese, and other languages), classics, and Asian studies. Among the many topics covered were archaeological discoveries and manuscript discoveries, global print culture, reception history and recovery, translation and dissemination, copyright and intellectual property issues, oral histories, libraries and archives, reading communities, and writing and reading technologies. Two-thirds of conference presenters came from abroad, with papers from scholars from the U.S., Taiwan, the UK, Italy, Australia, China, Hong Kong, Japan, Norway, Germany, India, Ireland, Israel, Lithuania, the Philippines, Poland, South Korea, Romania, Spain, and the Netherlands. Over 125 people registered in total, and a large number of BA and MA Taipei Tech students also attended.

APLX 2015, the department's biennial linguistics-oriented conference, was held on November 19 and 20, 2015. The keynote speakers were Prof. Alastair Pennycook from the University of Technology Sydney and Dr. Prue Holmes from the School of Education at Durham University, UK. The theme of the conference was “Global Communication and Beyond: Language, Culture, Pedagogy, and Translation,” and more than sixty papers, including poster presentations, from China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Japan, and the United Arab Emirates were presented, covering a wide range of topics including (but not limited to) discourse & culture, language teaching & technology, assessment, applied linguistics, sociolinguistics, and translation. The conference committee also invited industry partners to give several pre-conference workshops, giving insights in language assessments, digital English teaching, and board games in ESL classroom. More than 150 people participated in the two-day event. More information about the conference can be found on the APLX 2015 website.

The 2014 literature-oriented conference on comedy explored the nature, history, and structure of comedy in its varied manifestations across time, aesthetic genres and academic disciplines. The conference took place on November 28 and 29, 2014. The keynote speeches were “Tricks to Catch the Old One: Comics, Agelastes and Misanthropes” delivered by Prof. Jeremy Tambling, retired Professor of Literature at Manchester University, and “Comedy Loves Irony: Framing Devices and Reflexivity in Cinema” by Prof. Eivind Røssaak, Associate Professor at the Division of Film and Media in the National Library of Norway. Papers from India, Hong Kong, and Taiwan were presented in the two-day event, and more than eighty participated. More information about the conference can be found on the 2014 comedy conference website.

APLX 2013 was held on November 14 and 15, 2013 and had the theme “Applied Linguistics on Global Fronts: Culture, Pedagogy, Translation, and Communication.” The keynote speeches were “Corrective Feedback: Pedagogical and Theoretical Perspectives” by Prof. Rod Ellis of the University of Auckland and “Ethnographic approaches to researching academic writing” by Prof. Sue Starfield of the University of New South Wales. Fifty-three papers from the Philippines, the US, the UK, Australia, France, Japan, Hong Kong, China, and Taiwan were presented in the two-day event, and more than one hundred participated.

The Aesthetics of Suffering conference was a literature-oriented conference held on November 23 and 24, 2012. The conference invited papers to explore compelling questions about the limits of artistic representations, the paradoxical generation of beauty from pain, or any other aspect of the aesthetics of suffering. The guest speakers were Profs. Laura Quinney and William Flesch of Brandeis University. In the two-day event, twenty-three papers from Singapore, Japan, Hong Kong, and Taiwan were presented and more than eighty participated.

NTUTAPPLINGX 2011 continued the success of the applied linguistics-oriented NTUTAPPLINGX 2009 conference and explorered the diversity and innovation of applied linguistics and language learning. It was held on November 3 and 4, 2011. The invited guests were Prof. Susan M. Gass of Michigan State University and Prof. Michael Hoey of the University of Liverpool. Prof. Gass's keynote speech was on “Applied Linguistics, Language Learning, and Language Teaching: Creating a Research Link” and Prof. Hoey's on “How a right knowledge of Chinese might be used to help in the learning of English (and how a wrong knowledge won’t help at all)”. The two-day event saw forty-four papers from Thailand, Iran, Australia, China, and Taiwan and had more than ninety participants. The presented papers were reviewed and later published in the special issue of Taiwan Journal of Linguistics.

The Silent and Ineffable conference was held on November 26 and 27, 2010. The conference was literature-oriented conference and invited papers to reflect on the aesthetics of the unsaid, and, from the metaphor, imagination, and philosophy in literature, to listen to the unsaid in this noisy world. Prof. Gabriele M. Schwab from UC Irvine was invited as the keynote speaker. There were forty-two papers from the UK, Hong Kong, China, and Taiwan presented in the two-day event, and more than seventy participated. The presented papers were reviewed and later published in Issue 26 of the NTU Studies in Language and Literature. There is also an online version of the issue with some articles authorized for download.

NTUTAPPLINGX 2009 was the first applied linguistics-oriented international conference held by the Department. It took place on November 6 and 7, 2009. The keynotes were “Is there a fundamental difference between foreign language learning and native language development?” given by Prof. Robert Bley-Vroman of the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa and “Language of the individual and the group: a corpus-based approach” by Prof. Michael Barlow of the University of Auckland. There were eighty-four papers from Japan, China, and Taiwan presented in this conference, and more than one hundred participated. The presented papers were later reviewed and published as Conference Proceedings for NTUTAPPLINGX 2009 by Crane Publishing.

The System, Norm and the Societal conference was a translation studies-oriented conference that was co-organized by the study group of Theo Hermans's Translation in Systems and the Department. The conference was held on April 19 and 20, 2008 and focused on the topic of translation studies as a science. There were fourteen papers presented in the two-day event, and more than forty participated.

The Sustainability and the Literary Imagination conference was literature-oriented and was the Department's first major international conference. The conference was held on November 17 and 18, 2006. The guest speakers were Prof. Greg Garrard of Bath Spa University and Prof. Ursula Heise of Stanford University.