Tech emotionographer Pamela Pavliscak hosts an 8-month Interintellect Salon series while writing her new book #Feels: How Technology is Changing Our Emotional Life for the Better. Have you ever wondered why we feel compelled to note and name every new variation of sadness online? Or what you call that emotional hangover you can get after scrolling social…
Join Yatharth and Brooke Bowman in a conversation about friendships, scenes, and growth. So many scenes die before they are born, as dreams. What does it look like to take those…
Visual artist turned medical educator Alexa Miller (on twitter here) will host this salon centering experiences with visual art as a catalyst for expansion, innovation, connection, bias awareness, and shameless enjoyment. Experience a session of close looking at art using the Visual Thinking Strategies (VTS) methodology, a facilitation method originally created for K-12 learners and increasingly…
Recent studies have shown that plants are capable of learning, forming memories, recognizing their own kin, talking to one another as well as other organisms, and tell time among other things. Your host, Alex Criddle, has more in common with plants than you might initially realize! If plants can recognize family, communicate, and learn how,…
Join linguist Colin Gorrie in the first in a series of salons investigating language for an exploration of the thorny relationship between language and thought. Does language affect, constrain, or merely represent thought? How would we even go about finding out? Sometimes known as the Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis, the idea that we might be limited in…
In this salon, Jennifer A. Frey, associate professor of philosophy at the University of South Carolina, will discuss these questions in light of her recent essay on this topic in The…
Host Linus Lu concludes his series on classical music by zooming out talking about what classical music means, and what our own personal approaches to classical music are, can be, and should be. Join this open-ended salon to chat about all the ways that classical music can contribute to the richness of our lives, how…
In this salon, Ben Fleming discusses the ways we are trying to make the human body obsolete. Is it ethical? Is it even possible? And why do we want to escape our physical bodies? As a personal trainer I have spent a lot of time invested in the human body. I regularly train my body…
Host Training Journey In this host training series, ii Camp Curiosity host Helena Ng will walk with you on the journey of hosting your own ii salons through the lens of the Hero's Journey. The discussion will be co-hosted by Bryan Kam who has a decade worth of experience in hosting conversations. Helena is the…
Progress writer Jason Crawford is writing a book about the modern world and how it was invented. In a series of salons, we will explore this content together, chapter by chapter, and get an inside look at the author’s creative process. Behind the world of our daily lives, there is a hidden world, one that keeps our world…
Interintellect host and mentor Visakan Veerasamy hosts a fireside chat about marketing. Hi, Visa here! In a previous life I used to be a professional marketer at a software company, and before that I used to do promotions for music events, and from time to time I still do marketing consulting to pay the bills. Is…
Daniel Golliher presents a discussion about two of modern America's most profound thinkers, with all of their sharp similarities and differences. She fled the rise of totalitarianism in Europe in the early twentieth century, and, after coming to America, she settled in Manhattan. Her work and her personality were a force, and in between cigarettes…
