Lecture Hall is a series of regular educational events taking place in the Pavilion of New Holland Island. The program spans six different areas of interest: from film lectures; lectures in the social sciences, in collaboration with the Higher School of Economics in St Petersburg; to architecture-related offerings, in collaboration with the magazine Project Baltia; a literary club; On the Borders of Art, a cycle of lectures on contemporary art; and lessons in urban gardening from the Dacha in the City initiative.
Admission to the events is free of charge, but the number of participants is limited. Advance registration is required. For more details see the events' pages.
July 3, 7:30 pm
Lecture on urban gardening: Nadezhda Kerimova, The living environment as recreation space
July 4, 7:30 pm
Lecture on architecture. Anton Smirnov, Architecture of progress
July 5, 7:30 pm
Lecture on social sciences. Natalya Samutina, Fandoms and fan cultures: what can we learn from them?
July 9, 16:00
Lecture on contemporary art. Alexandra Novozhenova, Art and Time
July 10 , 7:30 pm
Lecture on urban gardening. Olga Smerdova, Flowers at a height – greening your balcony
July 11, 7:30 pm
Literary club. Alexey Konakov, The prose works of Leon Bogdanov. The birth of post-critical aesthetics in Kupchino and on the Petrogradskaya Side.
July 12, 7:30 pm
Lecture on social sciences. Mikhail Sokolov, Between Remarque and Dontsova: what Big Data may tell us about the social origins of literary tastes in Russia
July 13, 7:30 pm
Film Club. Boris Nelepo presents Vivir en Sevilla, dir. Gonzalo García Pelayo, 1978. 18+
July 17, 7:30 pm
Lecture on urban gardening. Natalya Samoylenko, Decorative shrubbery for urban greening
July 18, 7:30 pm
Lecture on architecture. To be announced
July 19, 7:30 pm
Lecture on social sciences. Paula Guerra, Angels with dirty faces: popular music, growing old and DIY
July 22, 16:00
Lecture on contemporary art. Alexandra Novozhenova, Art and Media
July 24, 7:30 pm
Lecture on urban gardening. Natalya Chervinskaya, Trees. Planting and caring properly
July 25, 7:30 pm
Literary club. Lev Danilkin, book presentation: Lenin: The Pantocrator of Sun Dust
July 26, 7:30 pm
Lecture on social sciences. Ekaterina Kirsanova, The fight for walls: patriotic graffiti, national identity and creation of the new monumental propaganda
July 27, 7:30 pm
Flim Club, special screening with MIEFF. Christian von Borries presents his film Desert of the Real, 2017. 18+
July 31, 7:30 pm
Lecture on urban gardening. To be announced
