The results of the year have enlighteners

At the end of 2016, I conducted a survey of enlighteners about who gave how many lectures for a year, which audience liked the most and whether there were curious cases during performances.

Several enlighteners have previously talked about their results of the year on Facebook. So, Sergei Popov noted that he “got more than fifty scientific-pools for the year. Moscow, Peter, Vladimir, Nizhny, Saratov, Ufa, Yaroslavl. Plus, under 20 lectures in schools and at schools where you will not get “from the street”, as well as on several reads read. corporate lectures. "

Astrochemist Dmitry Vibe counted 22 lectures, read not only in Moscow, but also in Yaroslavl and Nizhny Novgorod, plus two semester course at Moscow State University. “It’s not enough, of course, but, alas, I won’t pull anymore. Yes, and it was hard. After all, what is interesting: they write to you in September: “You won’t give a lecture to us in December?” Yes, what are the problems, for December there are no plans yet! And then December crawls with the reports with a heavy tank (I did not know that they would have to be written!), Castens, some kind of meeting from meetings, tips, certificates ... “Dmitry, you will not be able to give a lecture on Thursday in the evening?” - “Yes, I can, just evening is free . ” And then the second call . “Dmitry, you promised to participate in our filming; it turns out that we can only on Thursday evening . ” Your Mother ! “You know, I have a lecture on Thursday evening ...” - “Oh, it’s not a problem, we have everything by the clock, we will let you go two hours before the lecture!” As a result, I run away from Ostankino half an hour before the lecture (well, at least that she was at VDNH) and it started, continuously wiping the sweat from the forehead. But as we were fed in Ostankino then ... mmm ... "

2016 Laureate of the Enlightener Award, Alexander Panchin, said that he had “more than 30 lectures, rather 40-50 (taking into account all summer schools).”

Biologist Yegor Zeroeev noted that "you can’t wrap so much from Krasnoyarsk, but if you take with master classes and short scientpop forms, then there are 25 pieces, and 15 more at the university." Astrophysicist Boris Stern counted 11 lectures in Moscow, Kazan, Voronezh, Lipetsk and Nizhny Novgorod.

The astronomer, laureate of the Enlightener Provenik Prize, Vladimir Surdin, to the question of the TRV-hunger, replied that he had read about 65 full-time (at Moscow State University, NSU and MPSU) and about 150 online. “And it’s hard to say about popular, I didn’t think. I think about a hundred. ”

Linguist Irina Levontina gave about 15 popular science lectures: “I liked the audience almost everywhere. Perhaps, especially in the summer in the museum: the summer cinema, a warm July evening, and a full house, people came to listen to a lecture - and for a long time they ask questions for a long time, do not let go. But there was also a curious case. One listener suddenly gets up and says: “Irochka! You are such a gorgeous woman, your dress is so beautiful. But it’s not a secret, how little is paid at the Academy of Sciences. What do you earn a living?”

Medical journalist Alexei Vodovozov noted that in a year he gave 32 lectures: 20 in Moscow, three-in St. Petersburg; In Ufa, Ulyanovsk, Rostov-on-Don, Krasnodar, Vologda, Samara, Togliatti, Kazan, Volgograd-one at one. “The coolest audience in the sense of preparedness was in Kazan. The questions were those that had to creak with brains and sweat to get out. The most comfortable, almost homely - at lectures at Hyperion. There were curves. In St. Petersburg, at a lecture in the “Bookwood”, one strange citizen served whether I had a medical education, although on the cover of my book that he was in my hands, it was written about this, and I started the lecture with a sufficiently detailed performance. There, in St. Petersburg, the former graduate of the Alma Mater, the Military Medical Academy, came to the same lecture-and now an active “alternative” practitioner. He bought the name of the book, I thought I was “my own”, and when I began to smash what he was doing, the ex-colleague was very quickly retreated. ”

Scientific journalist, laureate of the 2014 Enlightener Award Asya Kazantseva answered our questions as follows: “They began to invite me to go with lectures for a long time, immediately after the release of the first book, but this year they turned into main professional activities. The demand for wandering lecturers is completely giant, many times surpasses their physical capabilities; My 46 public lectures in 25 cities are about a third of the number of proposals that I received.

If, excluding summer schools, performances to students and corporate parties, but only lectures for the general public, then the geography of lectures is as follows: Moscow-9, St. Petersburg-6, Lviv-3, Kaliningrad, Minsk, Odessa, Perm, Saratov and Kharkov-2, Vladimir, Kyiv, Yekaterinburg, Kirov, Krasov, London, Nizhny Novgorod, Nizhny Novgorod, Nizhny Novgorod Norilsk, Tver, Togliatti, Tyumen, Samara, Surgut, Rostov-on-Don, Ulyanovsk-1.

The most important thing that happened this year is three trips to Ukraine with lectures in Kyiv, Kharkov, Odessa and Lviv. After all this political hell began, I was scary, it seemed to me that no cultural interaction between our countries was more impossible. To my amazement, this year it turned out that the inhabitants of Ukraine agree to invite me, come to my lectures and even translate my books into Ukrainian. This is great happiness, I am very happy and proud.

Another strong personal impression of this year was Petersburg. I grew up there, in 2010 I moved to Moscow and for a long time did not want to come there, it all the time irrationally seemed to me that he would take and drag me back. But when you still fly every week, it turns simply into another point on the map and at the same time favorably differs from all other points on the map by the presence of friends and bars. ”

Natalia Demina