(5 January 2017) On 26 and 27 January in L.A. there will be a symposium dedicated to the writer, critic, philosopher, and Italian semiologist Umberto Eco, the Middle Ages, and “The Name of the Rose” (1986, 130’) by J. Jacques Annaud. Semiologist Paolo Fabbri is also expected to attend. The event was organised by the University of California Los Angeles Centre for Medieval and Renaissance Studies (UCLA CMRS) in collaboration with the Italian Cultural Institute with the support of Armand Hammer Endowment for UCLA CMRS. On January 26 at 17:30 there will be a film screening and the Symposium will take place on January 27 from 9:00 to 17:00. (Red)