Umberto Eco, Italian scholar and author, will come to Emory University this
October 5th to 7th to present three original lectures. There will also be a reading and book signing on the third evening.

All events are free and open to the public. Tickets are not required.

Umberto Eco:
Confessions of a Young Novelist

Event Schedule, October 5-7, 2008: 

Sunday, October 5th, 2008
4:00-5:00 pm: Lecture: “How I Write”, Emerson Hall, Schwartz Center
for the Performing Arts
5:00-6:00 pm: Public Reception, Patterson Green, Goizueta Business School

Monday, October 6th, 2008
8:15-9:15 pm: Lecture: "Author, Text, and Interpreters", Sanctuary,
Glenn Memorial Church

Tuesday, October 7th, 2008
4:00-5:00 pm: Lecture: “On the Advantages of Fiction for Life
and Death”, Emerson Hall, Schwartz Center
8:15-9:05 pm: A Reading by Umberto Eco, Emerson Hall
9:15-10:30 pm: Book signing by Umberto Eco, Emerson Hall

All events are free and open to the public. Tickets are not required.

Please note: all events occur on the south side of Emory University's main campus. Click here for directions to Emory; click here to be taken to the interactive Campus Map.

Source: www.emory.edu

The renowned Italian author Umberto Eco, born in Alessandria in 1932 and educated at the University of Turin, comes to his Ellmann Lectures as one of the true polymaths of our time: medievalist and Renaissance man, contemporary novelist and essayist, literary and cultural critic, philosopher and theoretician, columnist and editor, linguist and author of children’s books. As Professor of Semiotics at the University of Bologna since 1971, he has held distinguished academic appointments at numerous European and American Universities, including Oxford, Cambridge, Collège de France, Harvard, Yale, and Columbia.

As the author of best-selling novels, from The Name of the Rose (1983) and Foucault’s Pendulum (1989) to Baudolino (2002) and The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana (2005), he enjoys a world readership. His many works of non-fiction on semiotics, linguistics, aesthetics, and modern culture include A Theory of Semiotics (1976), Art and Beauty in the Middle Ages (1985), The Open Work (1989), The Middle Ages of James Joyce (1989), Kant and the Platypus (1999) and On Literature (2004).

For his multiform achievements in modern letters he has, in addition to receiving numerous honorary degrees, been elected to the Academy of Science in Bologna, the International Academy of the Philosophy of Art, the Académie Universelle des Cultures, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. His many literary awards include the Marshall McLuhan Award, the Officier de la Legion d’Honneur, the Cavaliere di Gran Croce al Merito della Repubblica Italiana, the Dagmar and Vaclav Havel Vision 97 Foundation Award, and the McKim Medal of the American Academy in Rome. Professor Eco is currently President of the Scuola Superiore di Studi Umanistici at the University of Bologna.