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Academic Appointments

Umberto Eco1961-4     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

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

1972        Visiting Professor Northwestern University

1975 -.     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

1985 - Doctor Honoris Causa, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium.
1986 - Doctor Honoris Causa, Odense University, Denmark.

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

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 -...   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

1989 - Doctor Honoris Causa, Université de Paris, Sorbonne Nouvelle.
1989 - Doctor Honoris Causa, Université de Liège.
1990 - Doctor Honoris Causa, Sofia University, Sofia, Bulgaria.
1990 - Doctor Honoris Causa, University of Glasgow.
1990 - Doctor Honoris Causa, Unversidad Complutense de Madrid.

1990        Tanner Lecturer, Cambridge University.

1992 - Doctor Honoris Causa, University of Kent at Canterbury.

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

1992/93   Norton Lecturer, Harvard University.

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

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 of Tartu, Estonia.

1996        Professeur étranger, Ecole Normale Superieure, Paris

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

1997 - Doctor Honoris Causa, Institut d'études politiques 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

1998        Goggio Lecturer, University of Toronto.

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

2000 - Doctor Honoris Causa, Université du Québec à Montréal, Quebec.

2002        Weidenfeld Lecturer, Oxford University

2002 -      President of the Istituto Italiano di Scienze Umane

2002 - Doctor Honoris Causa, Hebrew University, Jerusalem.
2002 - Doctor Honoris Causa, University of Siena, Siena.
2007 - Doctor Honoris Causa, University of Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia.
2008 - Doctor Honoris Causa, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden.