In this special Salon fellow Interintellects Thomas Arnold and Isabela Granic lead a discussion about the poem "Aubade" by Philip Larkin. In this salon we start not with a set theme or topic, but with an activity-- reading and reflecting on a single poem, finding out where it takes us. We will start with Philip…
Interintellect hosts Isabela Granic and Thomas Arnold invite you to their next poetry reading salon, this time with "Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird" by Wallace Stevens. "Among twenty snowy mountains, The only moving thing Was the eye of the blackbird. " Whether you've never read it or have considerable history with the poem…
Join Isabela Granic as we consider radical social transformations developing across the globe, and how the science and practice of belonging helps us navigate the implications of those changes. Many of us have felt our most profound moments of loneliness in the last several years. Although the pandemic surely has played a major role, signs…
Join Isabela Granic and her co-host, Amir Hajizamani as we consider radical economic and social transformations developing across the globe, and their impact on how we think about, show up…
Joining our community and friends, author and Washington Post columnist Christine Emba discusses her much-awaited new book Rethinking Sex with psychology professor Dr. Isabela Granic. In her vibrant new book, aptly subtitled "A Provocation," the journalist Christine Emba investigates whether the current state of sexual liberation is founded on the right ethics: does our current…
Teens have straight, important questions, but few adults ever give straight answers… until now. Andrew and Isabela are teaming up to share wisdom and demystify the world for teens in…
Join Isabela Granic – parent of two 16-year old boys and developmental psychologist studying tech and wellbeing – as we consider the marvelous and mysterious world of parenting in our digital age. In this third salon in the Our Hybrid Lives series, we'll focus on both millenia-old and completely novel parenting challenges that are top-of-mind…
Join hosts Isabela Granic and Thomas Arnold as we read Louise Glück's title poem from her remarkable 1982 volume "The Wild Iris." What kind of a flower narrates a poem? What is death, and what life? Where do we find ourselves in these verses? This salon will allow us the time to read, savor, and…
A salon on Creativity, Genius and The Gift & Market Economies, hosted by Bryan Kam, Nasos Papadopoulos, and Isabela Granic. Many of us have a deep need to do creative work which we believe in — but this kind of expression does not naturally pay the bills. In this wide-ranging salon, Bryan Kam, Nasos Papadopoulos,…
Join Isabela Granic for this special IRL gathering that will also double as an intimate, active and interactive, workshop. We will be considering the theory and practice of creative collectives and exploring how we can find our own small squad of like-hearted souls to help us thrive. Location: Liverpool Street. The exact address will be…
Starting in February, hosts Isabela Granic and Nastasia Griffioen are launching a reading group for Iain McGilchrist's magnum opus, The Matter with Things. The first session will be on February 8th and we'll continue to have them once a month on every second Wednesday of the month at 18:00 CET / 12:00 EST. For the…
Join Isabela Granic, developmental psychologist, as she and participants explore how philosophy and psychology can be put into practice to change the way we think, collaborate, and create. This salon…
