The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill will celebrate its Seventeenth First Amendment Day on Wednesday, October 7, 2026.
This campus-wide, daylong series of events is designed to both celebrate the First Amendment and explore its role in the lives of Carolina students. Students and other members of the university community read from banned books and discuss the public university’s special role as a marketplace of ideas and the need to be tolerant when others exercise their rights.
CITAP is represented throughout First Amendment Day. Thank you Skylar Bandoly for doing brilliant organizing!
- AI and MidTerm Elections featuring Sourojit Ghosh, Vivianne Ito, Daniel Kreiss, and Shannon McGregor
- The Daily Tar Heel's April Fools’ Edition: Satire, Institutional Response and the First Amendment featuring Meredith D. Clark
- Keynote: The Shifting Frontiers of Academic Freedom featuring Tressie McMillan Cottom
We hope to see you all there.