On Wednesday, 26 November 2025, at the Sartorio Civic Museum in Trieste (Largo Papa Giovanni XXIII n.1), the sixth event of the ‘Storia in città’ (History in the City) series will take place. a series of university lectures open to the public organised by the Regional Institute for the History of the Resistance and Contemporary Age in Friuli Venezia Giulia (Irsrec FVG) in partnership with the Department of Political and Social Sciences of the University of Trieste.

The sixth event will feature Silvia Inaudi (University of Trieste - Irsrec FVG), with a lecture entitled “Did Mussolini do any good things? The social policies of fascism between propaganda and reality”.

All meetings will be held from 6 p.m. to 7 p.m. in the Costantinides Room, as well as live on Zoom. The series will continue until 17 December. 

The 2025 edition, entitled ‘A History of Lies: Fake News in the Contemporary Age’, investigates the role of lies, disinformation and propaganda in contemporary history. The common thread linking the various events is fake news as a tool of power, control and collective manipulation. The topics covered during the conferences will range from the political and military events of the 20th century to the most recent communication dynamics affecting the phenomenon of climate denialism. During the meetings, we will attempt to demonstrate how false news has always shaped public opinion, legitimising regimes, fuelling stereotypes and justifying political choices.

The series, organised by Irsrec and Units since 2013, has always been a great success with the public. Since its inception, the aim of the initiative has been to transfer part of its teaching activities outside the campus and, together with other prestigious scientific institutions in the city, to organise open, accessible and rigorous conversations on various topics in contemporary history. These are meetings with historians who combine rigour and clarity, designed to share up-to-date knowledge, fuel public debate and bring research, schools and communities closer together.

Organising committee: Giulia Caccamo, Patrick Karlsen, Gabriele Mastrolillo, Raoul Pupo.

Admission to the conferences is free.

The complete programme for the ‘History in the City 2025’ series can be found in the attachment below.

For further information: irsrec@irsrecfvg.eu; tel. 040 44004; www.irsrecfvg.eu