ECO - CURRICULUM VITAE. (May 2011)

Born in Alessandria (Piemonte), Italy, January 5, 1932.

Academic Degrees

1954 - Laurea in Philosophy at the University of Torino.

1961 - Libero Docente in Aesthetics.

1975 - Ordinario di Semiotica at the University of Bologna.

1985 - Doctor Honoris Causa, Katolieke Universiteit, Leuven.

1986 - Doctor Honoris Causa, Odense University, Danmark.

1987 - Doctor Honoris Causa, Loyola University, Chicago.

1987 - Doctor Honoris Causa, State University of New York.

1987 - Doctor Honoris Causa, Royal College of Arts, London.

1988 - Doctor Honoris Causa, Brown University.

1989 - Doctor Honoris Causa, Université de Paris, Sorbonne Nouvelle.

1989 - Doctor Honoris Causa, Université de Liège.

1990 - Doctor Honoris Causa, University of Sofia.

1990 - Doctor Honoris Causa, University of Glasgow.

1990 - Doctor Honoris Causa, Universidad Complutense de Madrid.

1992 - Doctor Honoris Causa, Kent University, Canterbury

1993 - Doctor Honoris Causa, Indiana University.

1994 - Doctor Honoris Causa, University of Tel-Aviv.

1994 - Doctor Honoris Causa, University of Buenos Aires

1995 Doctor Honoris Causa, University of Athens

1995 - Doctor Honoris Causa, Laurentian University at Sudbury (Ontario)

1996 - Doctor Honoris Causa, Academy of Fine Arts, Warsaw

1996 Doctor Honoris Causa, University Ovidius, Constanta.

1996 Doctor Honoris Causa, University of Santa Clara (California)

1996 Doctor Honoris Causa, University of Tartu

1997 - Doctor Honoris Causa, Université de Grenoble

1997 - Doctor Honoris Causa, Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha.

1998 Doctor Honoris Causa, Lomonosov University of Moscow.

1998 Doctor Honoris Causa, Freie Universität, Berlin.

2000 Doctor Honoris Causa, Université du Quebec, Montreal

2001 Doctor Honoris Causa, Open University

2002 Doctor Honoris Causa, Rutgers University

2002 Doctor Honoris Causa, University of Jerusalem

2002 Doctor Honoris Causa, Università di Siena

2004 Doctor Honoris Causa, Université de Franche-Comté, Besançon

2005 UCLA Medal

2005 Doctor Honoris Causa Università Mediterranea, Reggio Calabria

2007 Doctor Honoris Causa, Univerza v Ljubljani

2008 Doctor Honoris Causa, University of Uppsala

2009 Doctor Honoris Causa Pontifical Institute, Toronto.

2010 Doctor Honoris Causa Universidad de Sevilla

2010 Doctor Honoris Causa Paris II

Academic Appointments

1961-4 Lecturer in Aesthetics at the University of Torino, Facoltà di Lettere e Filosofia and at the

Politecnico of Milano, Facoltà di Architettura.

1966-69: Associate Professor of Visual Communication, Facoltà di Architettura, University of Firenze.

1969-71 Associate Professor of Semiotics, Facoltà di Architettura, Politecnico di Milano.

1969 Visiting Professor New York University

1971 -. Editor of VS-Semiotic Studies.

1971-75 Associated Professor of Semiotics, Facoltà di Lettere e Filosofia, University of Bologna.

1972 Visiting Professor Northwestern University

1972-79 Secretary General of the IASS/AIS (International Association for Semiotic Studies);

1979-83 Vice-President of IASS/AIS. Now Honorary President.

1975 -2007 Full Professor of Semiotics, University of Bologna

1975 Visiting Professor UC-San Diego

1976 Visiting Professor New York University

1976-77, 1980-83: Director of the Istituto di Discipline della Comunicazione e dello Spettacolo, University

of Bologna.

1977 Visiting Professor Yale University

1978 Visiting Professor Columbia University

1980 Visiting Professor Yale University

1981 Visiting Professor Yale University

1983/88 Director of the Istituto di Discipline della Comunicazione, University of Bologna.

1984 Visiting Professor Columbia University

1986/02 Director of the PhD Program in Semiotics, University of Bologna.

1989 -... President of the International Center for Semiotic and Cognitive studies, University of San Marino.

1989-95 Member of the CSEO (Executive Scientific Committee) of the University of San Marino

1990 Tanner Lecturer, Cambridge University.

1992/93 Professeur étranger, Collège de France, Paris.

1993 Norton Lecturer, Harvard University.

1993-98: Chair of Corso di Laurea in Scienze della Comunicazione, University of Bologna.

1996 Professeur étranger, Ecole Normale Superieure, Paris

1996 Visiting Fellow of The Italian Academy, Columbia University, New York.

1998 Goggio Lecturer, University of Toronto.

1999 - President of the Scuola Superiore di Studi Umanistici, University of Bologna.

2002 Weidenfeld Lecturer, Oxford University

2002-05 President of the Consiglio Scientifico of the Istituto Italiano di Scienze Umane

2006-2010 President of the Comitato dei Garanti of the Istituto Italiano di Scienze Umane

2008 Professor Emeritus, University of Bologna

2008 Richard Ellmann Lecturer, Emory University

Memberships

1965.... Honorary Trustee of the James Joyce Association.

1994 -. Honorary President of the IASS/AIS

1991 - . Honorary Fellow, Rewley House I (now Kellogg College), Oxford.

1992 Member of the International Forum of Unesco

1992 - Member of the Académie Universelle des Cultures, Paris.

1994 - Member of the Academy of Sciences of Bologna.

1998 - Member of the Academia Europea de Yuste

1998 - Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters

2002 Honorary Fellow, St: Anne’s College, Oxford.

2003…… Member of the Council of Advisors of the Bibliotheca Alexandrina

2006 Foreign Member of the Polish Academy of Arts and Sciences

2011 Member of Accademia dei Lincei

2011 Membre Associé de l’Académie Royale de Beligique

2011 Foreign member of the Russia Academy of Literature

Member of the editorial board of Semiotica, Poetics Today, Degrès, Structuralist Review, Text, Communication, Problemi dell'informazione, Word & Images, etc.

Awards

1981: Premio Strega, Premio Anghiari, Premio Il Libro dell'anno (Italy).

1982: Prix Medicis Etranger (France) .

1983: Columbus Award of the Rotary Club, Florence.

1985: Marshall McLuhan Award - Unesco Canada and Teleglobe.

1989: Premio Bancarella (Italy)

1992: René Wellek Prize by American Comparative Literature Association

1999 Crystal Award, World Economic Forum, Davos.

2000 Premio Principe de Asturias, Oviedo

2000 Dagmar and Vaclav Havel Vision 97 Foundation Award

2002 Austrian State Award for European Literature

2002 Prix Mediterranée Etranger (France)

2004 Gran Gagliaudo d'Oro della Città di Alessandria

2005 Kenyon Review Award (U.S.A.)

2007 Prize 2007 of the City of Budapest

2007 Premio Internazionale Diritti Umani Città di Orvieto

2007 Premio Letterario Giorgio Calcagno, Almese

2007 McKim Medal of The American Academy in Rome

2011 Cesare Pavese Award, Santo Stefano Belbo

Decorations.

1981: Honorary Citizen of Monte Cerignone

1985: Commandeur de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettre (France)

1993: Chevalier de la Legion d'Honneur (France).

1995: Golden Cross of the Dodecannese, Patmos (Greece).

1996 Cavaliere di Gran Croce al Merito della Repubblica Italiana

1999 Orden pour le Merite für Wissenschaften und Künste (Germany)

2001 Transcendent Satrape du Collège de Pataphysique

2003 Officier de la Legion d'Honneur (France)

2009 Grosse Verdienstkreuz mit Stern des Verdiensrordens des Bundesrepublik Deutschland

2010 Honorary Citizen of Nizza Monferrato

2011 Honorary Citizen of San Leo