On Wednesday, March 4, 2026, at 4:30 p.m., the conference "Shipbuilding and the City. The Monfalcone "Construction Site" from the 19th Century to Today" will take place in the Conference Room of the Monfalcone Cultural Consortium (Piazza Unità d'Italia 24), Ronchi dei Legionari.

This is the third event in the series of educational seminars entitled Porti, popolazioni, società in un'area di frontiera, promoted by the Department of Humanities (DiSU) with the scientific coordination of professor Tullia Catalan.

The meeting aims to retrace the history of the relationship between the shipyard and the city from the Habsburg period to the present. Through the history of labor, the history of the changes in urban spaces associated with the shipyard (the factory town), and the history of migration, the stages of Monfalcone's transformation into a modern-day laboratory of the globalization of labor will be reconstructed.

The speakers scheduled will be Massimo Degrassi (UniTS), Giuseppe Grimaldi (UniTS), Giulio Mellinato (University of Milan-Bicocca) and Tullia Catalan (UniTS).