Ugliotics: An Hour in Eco's Secret World

Even in our increasingly inter-connected world, it isn't every day that an Italian intellectual billed as the "world's most famous medievalist and semiotician" delivers a cultural lecture on the subject of ugliness to a packed gymnasium in Mississauga while the event is webcast live around the globe . . . the University of Toronto Mississauga played host to Umberto Eco, the internationally renowned University of Bologna professor better known as the author of The Name of the Rose, Foucault's Pendulum, and other novels.