UMBERTO ECO E IL NOME DELLE COSE

The Società Dante Alighieri and the Umberto Eco Foundation are organising an international conference and exhibition in Rome entitled Umberto Eco and the Names of Things. The initiative aims to explore the contemporary relevance of Eco’s thought through a dialogue between scholars, writers and leading figures in contemporary culture. At the heart of the programme are the themes that run through his work: the relationship between language and reality, the interpretation of signs, cultural memory, the Middle Ages and their ideological reinterpretations, communication, and the transformations of knowledge in the digital age. The exhibition, hosted at Palazzo Firenze, presents documents, books, audiovisual materials and testimonies that reconstruct the extraordinary intellectual journey of one of the greatest European thinkers of the twentieth century. The conference and exhibition thus offer an opportunity to re-examine Eco’s legacy and his reflections on the way in which human beings attribute meaning to the world through names, signs and narratives.
Special thanks go to Valeria Noli, head of the culture department at the Società Dante Alighieri.