The Department's public engagement activities consist mainly of:

• popular publications and events on topics such as language differences and varieties, human mobility, literary knowledge, civic education, socially relevant phenomena
• participation of lecturers in local, national or international radio and television broadcasts
• participation in public meetings organised by other parties (libraries, archives, museums, associations)
• organisation of cycles of informative cultural meetings (conferences, presentation of publications, series of readings)
• organisation of concerts, exhibitions and other events of public interest
• initiatives in collaboration with local and national authorities aimed at urban development or promoting knowledge and appreciation of the territory