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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.

Rome, 23 June - Società Dante Alighieri

UMBERTO ECO E IL NOME DELLE COSE

SEGNI, REALTÀ E INTERPRETAZIONE

UMBERTO ECO E IL NOME DELLE COSE
Milan, 18 June 2026 – Lombardy Region

LOMBARDY READING

The Umberto Eco Foundation is delighted to be among the institutions invited to sign the 2026 Regional Pact for Reading.

LOMBARDY READING
Munich, 15 June 2026

"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.

"Two or three things I know about him"
Athens, 10 June 2026

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.

Italian intellectual
Manchester, 26 June 2026

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 in Britain
October – December 2026

The Island of the Day Before

Braidense National Library, Milan

The Island of the Day Before
International Center for Humanities “Umberto Eco”

Eco Conference 2026

Alma Mater Studiorum, University of Bologna

Eco Conference 2026
Alessandria, 13th – 14th March 2026

Umberto Eco alessandrino

Umberto Eco alessandrino
Live Event 12 p.m. 18/02/2026 - 12 p.m. 19/02/2026

Eco Eco Eco

A World-Wide Talk for Umberto

Eco Eco Eco
19th February, 2026

Umberto Eco Promenade

Umberto Eco Promenade