"These days, it feels to me like you make a devil's pact when you walk into this country." - Zadie Smith, White Teeth Join engineer and mathematician Meghan Kane (an American in Berlin) and Interintellect founder Anna Gát (a triple immigrant of Hungarian origin) as we wade through the many aspects of the immigrant experience,…
Autumnal read-aloud salons return with Interintellect host Catherine Woodiwiss! For millennia, as nights grow longer and the air gets colder, humans have gathered together to shelter and tell each other stories. The earliest stories were rooted in the natural world — finding lessons and meaning in the autumnal turn that brings us from light to…
Welcome to the third salon of a mini-series on all things community hosted by Lucia Asanache – she will explore, with support from wonderful guests, the power and potential of communities for improving our society. Inspired by her work building global communities around tech policy at the Tony Blair Institute, Lucia is keen to share but also to… Continue reading The Age of Community: (Unintentional) Impact
Empathetic leadership, work-life balance, team first approach... Join re:collect AI’s Alice Albrecht and Interintellect’s Anna Gát for an intimate salon on the lessons learned as a female or nonbinary founder and why they can be useful for everyone! Founding and running a startup can feel like alternating between Olympic sprints and marathons, and one way…
In his debut Salon, Jack Chong leads a discussion on how espionage is portrayed in movies and television series, and why it is portrayed the way it is. As a self-proclaimed nerd on espionage, these are the movies and television series (in English only, excluding Chinese and French-made works) that Jack has watched. If you have…
Eyal Shay read a story to his little girl, but as she dozed off to sleep, he stayed up contemplating its meaning and looking for the story behind the story. When Reddy heard about it, there was a burst of recognition, for this was the story whose plot he'd vaguely known all his life without…
Nudge, nudge, wink wink. In this Dead Economists Society Salon Bronwyn Williams and Peter Isztin discuss all things behavioural economics, and "libertarian" paternalism. "Smith is often remembered for the concept of an “invisible hand” that guides an overall economy to prosperity if each individual makes their own self-interested decisions—a key concept in classical and neoclassical…
This Salon with Alex Danco will be all about games. What is a "game", and what does it mean to "play"? What exactly constitutes a "Game", and what constitutes "Play", is one of the hardest questions to precisely answer. Puppies and kittens do it; kids do it; and grownups certainly do it too - although…
In this SuperSalon, writer Akash Kapur, author of Better to Have Gone: Love, Death, and the Quest for Utopia in Auroville, will join writers and Interintellect hosts Tanya Raj and Visakan Veerasamy to explore the pull of a perfect utopia: the pleasures and the losses, and the finding of eventual transcendence and acceptance, even in…
In this salon, Dominic Duffin will lead an exploration of how blockchain, cryptocurrency, NFTs, gaming and digital art come together to create a new culture, and how significant a break…
In this salon series, Tanya Raj will lead deep-dive discussions on The Prophet by Khalil Gibran and his philosophy on living a life with purpose and meaning. In this salon, we will delve into speech, the need for humans to talk and express, the concept of time as a fluid eternity, or if time even…
Interintellect host and mentor Visakan Veerasamy hosts a fireside chat about starting new things. We're approaching the end of 2021, which means soon it'll be 2022. It's been a rough couple of years for many. Nevertheless, life has to go on! And part of that means we can't stay in stasis forever. We have to try…
