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To sum up Umberto Eco in a few words is an impossible task:
it would be like pursuing a salmon while reading Proust from a plane over Texas.
This section collects some of the projects and initiatives that, day after day,
and across the globe, continue to arise around him.
The Island of the Day Before
Braidense National Library, Milan
Umberto Eco in Britain
A special public event at the Anthony Burgess Foundation in Manchester, exploring the relationship between Umberto Eco and British culture.
UMBERTO ECO E IL NOME DELLE COSE
SEGNI, REALTÀ E INTERPRETAZIONE
LOMBARDY READING
The Umberto Eco Foundation is delighted to be among the institutions invited to sign the 2026 Regional Pact for Reading.
"Two or three things I know about him"
Paola Barbon, a literary scholar, offers us a very personal portrait of the writer and thinker Umberto Eco.
Italian intellectual
Ten years after Umberto Eco’s death, the Michalis Kakogiannis Foundation hosted the first major international symposium in Greece dedicated to his work, held in Athens.
Sion, 2 June 2026
The Fondation Fellini pour le cinéma and the Archives de l’État du Valais paid tribute to the tenth anniversary of Umberto Eco’s death with an exhibition dedicated to The Name of the Rose.
Eco Conference 2026
Alma Mater Studiorum, University of Bologna
Eco Eco Eco
A World-Wide Talk for Umberto
