by Maximiliano Crocamo
Interview: Trieste Giorgio Rossi, Councilor for Culture and Tourism; Paolo Pronuzzi, tenured associate professor of Applied Geology at the University of Udine
The Municipality of Trieste and the Società per la Preistoria e la Protostoria della Regione Friuli Venezia Giulia – Odv have announced a joint public lecture series titled Preistoria 2026, set to run throughout the year with the aim of promoting prehistoric and protohistoric archaeology across the region.
The program features eight free lectures, each delivered by leading academics and museum researchers, primarily from universities and institutions in Friuli Venezia Giulia and neighboring regions, including Veneto, Trentino-Alto Adige, Lombardia, and Slovenia. All sessions will be held at the Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Trieste (Via dei Tominz 4) and will begin at 5:00 p.m. Admission is free, subject to seat availability.
The full schedule of lectures is as follows:
- March 25, 2026 — Paolo Paronuzzi (University of Udine), The Castellieri of Carlo Marchesetti, One Hundred Years after His Death
- April 15, 2026 — Boštjan Laharnar (National Museum of Slovenia, Ljubljana), Between Ocra and Albion: Tracing Roman Conquerors and Indigenous Populations in Southwestern Slovenia
- May 13, 2026 — Annaluisa Pedrotti (University of Trento), Men and Women in Stone, 5,000 Years Ago: The Phenomenon of Statue-Stelae in Trentino-Alto Adige
- June 10, 2026 — Roberto Micheli (Superintendency of Archaeology, Fine Arts and Landscape, FVG), Trieste Before Tergeste: New Archaeological Investigations on the Hill of San Giusto
- September 16, 2026 — Paolo Rondini (University of Pavia), Valle Camonica: A UNESCO Site in Pre-Protohistory
- October 14, 2026 — Peter Turk (National Museum of Slovenia, Ljubljana), Carlo Marchesetti and the Protohistory of San Canziano del Timavo between the 19th and 21st Centuries
- November 11, 2026 — Margherita Tirelli (formerly of the National Archaeological Museum of Altino), The Sanctuary of the God Altino: Strangers and Wolves
- December 16, 2026 — Federico Bernardini (University of Venice), Three Years of Research at the Tina Jama Cave: Results and Prospects
Alongside the lecture series, the Society plans to develop a dedicated website and expand its specialist library, which currently holds more than 5,000 volumes cataloged within the Giulian Library System. Guided visits to key archaeological sites in the Karst region, as well as neighboring areas of Slovenia and Croatia, are also planned as part of the broader program.
