Festival of the Enlightener Prize

From November 9 to 12, 2017, the Enlightener Prize Festival will be held in Moscow. It will unite everyone who wants to know how people and the world around us work. The festival's lecturers will be finalists, laureates and jury members of the Enlightener Prize from different years, as well as experts in mathematics, history, biology, linguistics and economics. American historian and popularizer of science, founder of the Skeptics Society, Michael Shermer , will come especially to the festival to give a public lecture.

Most events are free. To participate, you must register on the festival website: www.festprosvet.ru

Preliminary festival program

November 9, Thursday

Lecture by Asya Kazantseva “Don’t stick your head into the socket! Can transcranial stimulation make us superhuman?”, 19:00.
Cultural and educational center "Arhe", Malaya Pirogovskaya st., 29/7.

Lecture by Alexey Vodovozov “13 signs of divorce for diagnosis”, 19:00.
Central City Youth Library named after. M. A. Svetlova, Bolshaya Sadovaya st., 1.

Lecture by Evgeniy Steiner “The Birth of Contemporary Art from the Spirit of Manga”, 19:00.
Moscow Museum of Modern Art, st. Petrovka, 25.

Stage reading based on the book “The Sign Will Not Be Erased,” 20:00. Theatre.doc, Maly Kazenny lane, 12.

November 10, Friday

Discussion “Crazy Friday in the Big City” with the participation of Daria Varlamova and Anton Zainiev , 19:00.
Moscow City Museum, Vysotka bar, Empire business complex, southern lobby, 56th floor, Presnenskaya embankment, 6, building 2.

Seminar by Dmitry Pobedinsky “How to become an educational blogger”, 19:00
Central city youth library named after M. A. Svetlov, Bolshaya Sadovaya st., 1

November 11, Saturday

Children's marathon “From dinosaur to compote”, 12:00.
Central Universal Scientific Library named after N. A. Nekrasov, Baumanskaya st., 58/25, building 14.

Excursion by Pavel Gnilorybov “From Torgsin to Berezka”, 12:00 and 16:00.
Meeting point - at the chapel on the corner of Stoleshnikov lane. and st. Petrovka .

Lecture by Sergei Shandarin “Giant Web of the Universe: Theory and Observations” , 13:00.
Cultural and educational center "Arhe", st. Malaya Pirogovskaya, 29/7.

Introduction to Andrey Baldin’s transmedia project “What is Bukvoskop”, 14:00.
Central Universal Scientific Library named after N. A. Nekrasov, Baumanskaya st., 58/25, building 14.

Excursions with Tim Skorenko. “Invented in Russia”, 14:00 and 16:00.
Open collections of the Polytechnic Museum, Volgogradsky Prospekt, 42, bldg. 5, 2nd floor.

Linguistic film screening “Artificial languages ​​in cinema: from Star Trek to the present day” with the participation of Alexander Piperski , 16:00.
Central Universal Scientific Library named after. N. A. Nekrasova, Baumanskaya st., 58/25, building 14.

Literary and culinary evening “China in Pieces” with Yuri and Ekaterina Ilyakhin, 18:00.
Cafe "House 12", Mansurovsky lane, 12.

Travel of Mikhail Kretschmar “Siberian Book”, 19:00.
Central city youth library named after M. A. Svetlov, Bolshaya Sadovaya st., 1.

November 12, Sunday

Bus tour “Soviet modernism in Moscow: achievements and failures”, 12:00.
Meeting place: conference hall of the Memorial Society, st. Karetny Ryad, 5/10.

Lecture by Daria Sargsyan “Diagnosis by UserPic”, 13:00.
Yandex headquarters, Extropolis hall, st. Lev Tolstoy, 16.

Lecture by Nelly Litvak and Andrei Raigorodsky “Who needs mathematics?”, 14:00.
Yandex headquarters, Extropolis hall, st. Lev Tolstoy, 16.

Excursion “How to become a member of the public” and lecture by Stanislav Drobyshevsky “Childhood in the Paleolithic”, 15:00.
State Biological Museum named after. K. A. Timiryazeva, Malaya Gruzinskaya st., 15.

Lecture by Alexander Krainov “AI without bullshit”, 16:00.
Yandex headquarters, Extropolis hall, st. Lev Tolstoy, 16.

Lecture by Michael Shermer (USA) “The Skeptical Approach”, 16:00.
Russian State Library, conference hall, st. Vozdvizhenka, 3/5.

Discussion by Yuri Brodsky and Elena Racheva “Today in Solovki, tomorrow in Russia”, 18:00.
Central Universal Scientific Library named after N. A. Nekrasov, Baumanskaya st., 58/25, building 14.

Lecture by Shaul Bassi “Shakespeare in the Venetian Ghetto”, 19:00.
Library-reading room named after. I. S. Turgeneva, Bobrov lane, 6, building 1.

EKATERINBURG

Lecture by Alexander Konstantinov “Radiation: why are we afraid of the wrong things?”, November 11, 19:00.
Yeltsin Center, st. Boris Yeltsin, 3.