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.
SCHEDULE
May 10, 7:30 pm
Lectures in the Social Sciences, in collaboration with the Higher School of Economics in St Petersburg: Senior Research Fellow Oksana Zaporozhets, So Similar and yet so Different: Metropolitans of Moscow and Saint Petersburg in Everyday City Life
May 11, 7:30 pm
Hidden, Film Club: Film critic Vasily Koretsky presents the film Oro, Plata, Mata (dir. Peque Gallaga, Philippines, 1982)
May 13, 12:00 pm – 6:00 pm
Lectures on Urban Gardening from Dacha in the City: Pushkin Leningrad State University professor Irina Iorescu leads Urban Flowers, a workshop on gardening in courtyards
May 16, 7:30 pm
Hidden, Film Club: British film critic Neil Young presents the film Artemis 81 (dir. Alistair Reid, United Kingdom, 1981)
May 17, 7:30 pm
Lectures in the Social Sciences, in collaboration with the Higher School of Economics in St Petersburg: Social anthropologist Alexandra Kasatkina, What can you say in Six Hundred Square Meters? Or, Everyday Life in Russia, as seen through the Mirror of Dacha Culture
May 22, 7:30 pm
Lectures on Urban Gardening from Dacha in the City: Landscape designer and experienced urban gardener Olga Kazakina, How to Plan, Coordinate and Plant a Garden in Your Own Courtyard
May 23, 7:30 pm
Architecture Lectures from Project Baltia: Architecture professor from the Tallin University of Applied Sciences, Vilen Künnapu, New Architecture for the New Human
May 24, 7:30 pm
Lectures in the Social Sciences, in collaboration with the Higher School of Economics in St Petersburg: Anthropology PhD scholar from Stanford University, Nikolai Ssorin-Chaikov, The Anthropology of Memory: Post-Soviet Narratives about the Soviet Past
May 25, 7:30 pm
Hidden, Film Club: Film critic Alexey Artamonov presents the film Behindert (dir. Stephan Dwoskin, Germany, 1974)
May 28, 4:00 pm
On the Borders of Art, Lectures on Contemporary Art: Art critic Gleb Napreenko, Art as Encounter, the Image as a Struggle
May 29, 7:30 pm
Lectures on Urban Gardening from Dacha in the City: Director of the laboratory Zimnyi Sad (“Winter Garden”), at the Pushkin Leningrad State University, Elena Voropaeva, The Urban Winter Garden
May 30, 7:30 pm
Literary Club: St Petersburg poet, writer and translator Alexander Skidan, discusses the book Putovoditel’ po N (Guidebook for N)
May 31, 7:30 pm
Lectures in the Social Sciences, in collaboration with the Higher School of Economics in St Petersburg: Director of the Center for Youth Studies and professor at the Higher School of Economics Elena Omelshenko, Where to find the young generation? The anti-cafes, courtyards, and secret hangouts of Makhachkala, Ulyanovsk, Kazan and St Petersburg
