The Department sponsors regular lectures by scholars and artists from North Carolina and across the globe.
Creative Writing showcases the work of undergraduates as well as professional writers, including a yearly event to celebrate the Morgan Writer-In-Residence.
The Latina/o Speaker Series, the only of its kind at UNC-CH, hosts prominent creative artists and cultural critics in the field of Latina/o and ethnic studies.
The Department highlights the on-going work of faculty and visiting scholars in the study of literatures and languages through the Critical Speakers Series.
The comparative literature program sponsors the Furst Forum, a lecture series drawing on scholars from a variety of departments here at UNC.