On 2 April the third season of the Open Lecture Hall series of regular educational events will open in the New Holland Island Pavilion. For 2019, the project comprises 10 programmes: the Seance magazine film-club, the European University at St. Petersburg lectures, the philosophy programme, a series of lectures by the Garage Museum of Contemporary Art, lectures on architecture from Project Baltia magazine, social science lectures from the Higher School of Economics at St. Petersburg, lectures on science and technology from ITMO University, lectures on graphic design prepared by the New Holland Island design department, as well as a programme of lectures on contemporary theatre and performance theory and practice.
The objective of the Open Lecture Hall series is to promote high quality educational initiatives to a broad-based audience of visitors to New Holland Island. The disciplines covered by the lectures have been selected to appeal to people of all ages and walks of life. The lecture season on the island will continue until October.
Admission is free of charge, lectures are delivered in Russian. Attendees must register in advance, see details on lectures' individual pages.
August 1, 7:30 PM
Performance theory and practice lectures: Pavel Mitenko and Sasha Obukhova – The Policy of Performance. Actionism
August 6, 7:30 PM
ITMO University lectures: Olga Sorina — How to control your motivation? A scientific view
August 7, 7:30 PM
European University at St Petersburg lectures: Alexey Pavlovsky — Russian comics and cultural memory: comic art between nostalgia and trauma
August 8, 7:30 PM
New Holland Island Design Department lectures: Irina Korotich — Design for festivals and cultural projects
August 9, 7:30 PM
Contemporary theatre lectures: Vasily Berezin — Man is a theatrical animal. The theater of Vasily Berezin
August 10, 4 PM
Philosophy lectures: Alla Mitrofanova — Tactile Cinema
August 11, 4 PM
Séance magazine Film Club: Premiere and discussion of the film Tinnitus. Presented by director Daniil Zinchenko
August 12, 7:30 PM
Project Baltia magazine lectures: Sergey Choban – Urban Development. Observations based on experience in Berlin
August 14, 7:30 PM
Higher School of Economics lectures: Andrey Shevchuk — From factory to platform: how digitalization changes the labor market
August 15, 7:30 PM
Performance theory and practice lectures: Varvara Sklez and Valery Zolotukhin— Reenactment and memory: from the dramatization of early Soviet theater to contemporary art
August 17, 4 PM
New Holland Island Design Department lectures: Ilya Ruderman — Font Today
August 18, 4 PM
Séance magazine Film Club: Screening of short films and a discussion on How to get into the professional film industry with Cinema Platform Potential
August 19, 7:30 PM
Garage Museum of Contemporary Art lectures: Madina Tlostanova — Postcolonial status, decolonial choice and post-socialist mediation
August 20, 7:30 PM
Project Baltia magazine lectures: Andrey Ukhnalev — The Spatial Being of Peter's Petersburg
August 21, 7:30 PM
European University at St Petersburg lectures: Julia Safronova — Inconvenient anniversaries. Why doesn’t Russia need Alexander II?
August 23, 7:30 PM
Contemporary theatre lectures: Andrei Stadnikov talks with Elizaveta Spivakovskaya — How should we deal with the reality of the theater: a document, historical memory and performance
August 25, 4 PM
Philosophy lectures: Nina Savchenkova — Does cinema help others to think? The philosophy of intersubjectivity and cinema
August 27, 7:30 PM
ITMO University lectures: Vladimir Ulyantsev — Bioinformatics: how genomic data helps to study the origin of people and the mechanisms of disease development
August 28, 7:30 PM
Higher School of Economics lectures: Margarita Kuleva — Through dirty glass: what (dis)order, dirt and cleanliness tell us about the culture of Russia
August 29, 7:30 PM
Performance theory and practice lectures: Anastasia Proshutinskaya and Anna Kozonina — Dance and Performance: About connections and borders
