Umberto Eco in Tartu

World-famous semiotician, philosopher and novelist Umberto Eco will be visiting Estonia at the invitation of the Estonian Center of Excellence for Research in Cultural Theory.

[[{"type":"media","view_mode":"media_large","fid":"41069","attributes":{"alt":"","title":"","class":"media-image","typeof":"foaf:Image","wysiwyg":1}}]]On 6 May Eco’s honorary doctorate inauguration ceremony will take place in the UT Assembly Hall, followed by a public lecture and meeting with researchers and students from the UT Department of Semiotics.

On 7 May Umberto Eco will participate in the literary festival Prima Vista as an honorary guest. At the festival, he will deliver a public lecture entitled “Going backwards?” and meet with publishers and translators.

Eco’s Estonian visit will continue on 8 May in Tallinn, where he will visit the personal archive and library of Juri Lotman and Zara Mints and participate in a seminar organized by the Center for Research in Cultural Theory.

Umberto Eco is a professor at the University of Bologna. His book "A Theory of Semiotics" (1976) belongs to the classics in the field, and the same holds true for his novel "The Name of the Rose". Eight of Eco’s books have been published in Estonian.


Additional information: prof Kalevi Kull, Head of the Department of Semiotics, +372 737 5933, kalevi.kull@ut.ee