::  The Department of Comparative Literature has had a continuously running lectures series for over twenty years. The object of our lecture series is to further the interdisciplinarity of the department and give students and faculty alike a chance to meet important people in the profession. We have welcomed scholars including Jacques Derrida, Paul de Man, J. Hillis Miller, Richard Macksey, Jean-Luc Nancy, Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe, Samuel Weber, Cynthia Chase, Jonathan Culler, Werner Hamacher, Avital Ronell, Paule Thevenin, and Claude Imbert among many others. The lecture series seeks to complement what is offered at UB, while making up for any thematic or methodological deficiencies of the Comparative Literature program.

We have also held fourteen annual conferences in conjunction with the college of Arts and Sciences and other departments. Recent conferences have been "Borges and Philosphy," "At the Heart of Jean-Luc Nancy's L'intrus," "Heidegger," "Fascisms," "Homotextualities," "Walter Benjamin, 1892-1992," and "A Feast of Paradigms."