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.
June 5, 7:30 pm
Lecture on urban gardening jointly organised with the Dacha in the city project: Natalya Chernykh, Garden in the city
June 6, 7:30 pm
Lecture on architecture from Project Baltiya magazine: Margarita Steiglitz, The industrial capital
June 7, 7:30 pm
Social sciences lecture jointly organised with the St Petersburg Higher School of Economics: Anisiya Khokhlova, The migrant as naïve ethnographer: how can the views of new arrivals enrich our understanding of the city?
June 8, 7:30 pm
The Hidden Film Club: Thomas Elsaesser, a viewing of the films Serious Games and Parallel, directed by Harun Farocki, Germany 2009-2014
June 9, 7:30 pm
The Hidden Film Club, special event: Thomas Elsaesser, presentation of the book Film Theory: An Introduction Through the Senses
June 11, 4:00 pm
Contemporary art lecture On the Fringes of Art: Boris Klyushnikov, Towards the materialistic dialectic of the Scene: modern art and subcultures
June 12, 7:30 pm
Lecture on urban gardening jointly organised with the Dacha in the city project: Anna Marsa, Eco-friendly urban gardening
June 14, 7:30 pm
Social sciences lecture jointly organised with the St Petersburg Higher School of Economics: Raisa Akifiyeva, An introduction to the psychology of the everyday: from anticipation to reality, or how our expectations determine the end result
June 15, 7:30 pm
The Hidden Film Club: Stanislav F. Rostotsky, a viewing and discussion of the the film Basket Case directed by Frank Henenlotter, USA, 1982
June 16, 7:30 pm
Literature club: Alexandra Petrova, discussion of the novel Appendix
June 19, 7:30 pm
Lecture on urban gardening jointly organised with the Dacha in the city project: Natalya Borisova, Plants for a shady garden
June 20, 7:30 pm
Lecture on architecture from Project Baltiya magazine: Alexey Levchuk, The Infrastructure of the Proletariat
June 22, 7:30 pm
The Hidden Film Club: Vassily Stepanov, a viewing and discussion of the film Sensuela directed by Teuvo Tulio, Finland, 1973
June 25, 4:00 pm
Contemporary art lecture On the Fringes of Art: The eeefff group (Dina Zhuk and Nikolay Spesivtsev), Art and the technological desire horizon
June 26, 7:30 pm
Lecture on urban gardening jointly organised with the Dacha in the city project: Anna Andreeva, Natural flowerbeds in the city
June 27, 7:30 pm
Literature club: Alexander Ilyanen, readings and discussion of excerpts from novels
June 28, 7:30 pm
Social sciences lecture jointly organised with the St Petersburg Higher School of Economics: Mikhail Sokolov, Between Remarque and Dontsova: what Big Data may tell us about the social originas of literary tastes in Russia
June 29, 7:30 pm
The Hidden Film Club: Mikhail Trofimenkov, a viewing and discusson of the film Confidential Agent, directed by Herman Shumlin, USA, 1945.