OPEN LECTURE HALL: APRIL

Open Lecture Hall aims to promote meaningful educational initiatives among the diverse audience of New Holland Island and make learning activities accessible and fun. Themes of the lectures are selected to reflect the interests of different ages and groups. It is a free student pass and an opportunity to learn from experts and scholars from a variety of fields in an informal setting.

Free admission. Places are limited. Please keep a safe distance, wear a mask for the duration of the lecture, and stay home if you feel sick.

Apri 1, 7:30 pm
Philosophy lectures: Tatiana Levina — Metaphysics and epistemology in feminist theory

April 4, 4pm
Seance Film Club: Zinaida Pronchenko — Alain Delon does speak French

April 5, 7:30 pm
Local Studies: Alexander Semenov — Dashing and replete: Urbanism of St. Petersburg 1990s - 2000s

April 6, 7:30 pm
ITMO University lectures: Elena Rybnikova — Stress. Should we fight it?

April 8, 7:30 pm
Theatre magazine lectures: Valeriy Zolotukhin — From the phonograph to the tape recorder: how the legendary performances of the Russian theatre were recorded and what was preserved from them

April 11, 4 pm
Seance Film Club: A true author stands the test of time. Discussion

April 12, 7:30 pm
Garage Museum of Contemporary Art lectures: Gleb Napreenko — The back of psychoanalysis or the unconscious is politics

April 13, 7:30 pm
Project Baltia magazine lectures: Evgeny Lobanov — An architect’s truth. Creative legacy of Boris Ustinov

April 14, 7:30 pm
Lectures on Academic Music: Georgy Kovalevsky — Why the complexity? A manual to understanding classical music

April 15, 7:30 pm
Lectures on Design: Irina Smirnova and Max Ilyinov — The secret life of the Cyrillic alphabet. Self-organising structures and neutrality

April 18, 4 pm
Seance Film Club: Vasily Stepanov — Seance № 78. Discussion about contemporary Russian cinema

April 19, 7:30 pm
Local Studies: Anna Sever — Inside a St.Petersburg tenement house

April 20, 7:30 pm
ITMO University lectures: Anton Barchuk — When epidemiology stopped to be a science about epidemics

April 22, 7:30 pm
Theatre magazine lectures: Sergey Konaev — Women's Emancipation: How Russian imperial theatres worked as a social lift

April 23, 7:30 pm
Lectures on Design: Alexander Kolobov — Graphic design of the late 20th century. The phenomenal launch and twilight of Alexander Kolobov's career in design and teaching

April 26, 7:30 pm
Garage Museum of Contemporary Art lectures: Boris Klyushnikov — A critical potential of science fiction in artists' projects

April 27, 7:30 pm
Project Baltia magazine lectures: Pavel Ignatyev — Portrait of an architect. A sculptor's view

April 29, 7:30 pm
Philosophy lectures: Yana Tstrlina, Dmitry Vyatkin — How the scene of modern philosophy is shaped?