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 register in advance. Please keep a safe distance, wear a mask for the duration of the lecture, and stay home if you feel sick.
September 2, 7:30 pm
Theatre magazine lectures: Marina Israilova — Feminist epistemologies in theater
September 6, 7:30 pm
Garage Museum of Contemporary Art lectures: Roman Osminkin — Poetry as contemporary art
September 7, 7:30 pm
Project Baltia magazine lectures: Pyotr Ivanov — Urbanists' collective stigma
September 8, 19:30
Lectures on Academic Music: Konstantin Uchitel — Concert hall: the meaning of space and rules of conduct
September 9, 19:30
Lectures on Design: Arseniy Brodach — On methods of creating objects and Delo brand ethos
September 12, 4 pm
Seance Film Club: Victor Mazin — Telephone noir. The technique of a dark film
September 13, 7:30 pm
Local Studies: Aleksandr Minakov — Elite Millionnaya, depressive Obvodny, emerging Okhta: where's the best real estate in St. Petersburg?
September 14, 7:30 pm
ITMO University lectures: Pyotr Tischenko — Artificial intelligence in the service of archives
September 15, 7:30 pm
Takie Dela lectures: Alienated adults: should we be helping HIV-positive people, drug and alcohol addicts, prison inmates and how to do it the right way
September 20, 7:30 pm
Garage Museum of Contemporary Art lectures: Darya Yuriychuk — Cynical dreamers, politics of dependency and unpaid labour
September 21, 7:30 pm
Project Baltia magazine lectures: Mikhail Belov — The heroic aspect of overcoming the viral attack of modernism on traditional culture through a step-by-step vaccination with historicism
September 23, 7:30 pm
Philosophy lectures: Maria Rakhmaninova — Cultural politics of the body
September 26, 4 pm
Lectures on Design: Svyat Vishnyakov — Versus
September 27, 7:30 pm
Local Studies: Dmitriy Gusarov — Apartment blocks of Leningrad: the housing of tomorrow
September 28, 7:30 pm
ITMO University lectures: Andrey Filchenkov — Do androids have erotic dreams?
September 30, 7:30 pm
Theatre magazine lectures: Dmitriy Renanskiy — The rules of operatic performance
