In their debut salon Lisa Wehden examines culture, emotions and the daily life of Europeans during the Cold War. We'll explore themes of material culture, memory and nostalgia, death and changing notions of private life. The texts offer perspectives from both the east and west, encouraging comparisons across the Iron Curtain. We'll explore how individuals were impacted…
Interintellect host Linus Lu continues his series all about classical music by exploring the relationship between classical music and history. This salon will dive into the history of classical music and be about history through classical music. We go through the different periods of classical music, from the earliest ancient roots (which have more echoes in modern…
Join Interintellect host Ben Fleming for a London meet-up and experience the many health benefits of being outdoors. It feels great to be outdoors! After a year of being urged to stay confined inside buildings, now is the time to learn about and examine all the ways being outside can be beneficial for our health.…
Interintellect founder Anna Gát hosts an intimate literary salon discussing the works, reputation and legacy of the Russian-American novelist. All book-lovers welcome! Brave. Preposterous. Genius. Unputdownable. Uncancellable. Hard to talk about the 20th century novelist virtuoso Vladimir Nabokov without a string of big adjectives. The author of the infamous Lolita, the iconoclastic Pale Fire and…
In these Interintellect workshop salons, Sylvia R helps us master the art of the short fiction through reading some of the greatest short story writers and analyzing their techniques. In this session, we’ll read Turgenev's "The Singers" and its analysis in “A Swim in a Pond in the Rain”, George Saunders’s literary masterclass on what makes…
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. Helena is the host of Camp Curiosity, a series of workshop salons on discovering your own flavours of play, building a compendium of curious…
In this salon Maybe Gray invites you to explore a series of mystery topics for which she has not prepared to talk about at all. This brand new approach to improvisation at the interintellect is inspired by the Whose Line is it Anyway? improv game "Scenes from a Hat". In this game, a series of…
In this salon, Interintellect founder Anna Gát leads a discussion on military intelligence - strategic, operational, tactical. We will look at the history of espionage and strategic planning, as well as the lead-ups to some of the most famous battles. This event is part of our A History of War series; no previous attendance or…
In this salon hosted by Lukas Rosenstock, we'll share our thoughts about the idea behind universal basic income. It's a simple idea with proponents as varied as Martin Luther King and Elon Musk: give every citizen a monthly stipend to cover their essential needs, without conditions or work requirements. Unfortunately, no country or region has…
Eureka! In this salon debut Interintellect host Neville A Mehra leads a discussion on creativity and the origin of ideas. We'll share and explore our beliefs on the nature and origins of ideas and our experiences as creators, artists, knowledge workers, and thinkers of all sorts. Questions for Discussion: Where do ideas come from? Do…
In this salon (the first of a three-part mini-series), Jake Orthwein will lead a discussion on the parallels between contemporary politics and professional wrestling. It's difficult to escape the sense that there's something unreal about contemporary politics. The narrowness of the Overton Window, the pageantry of the debate stage, the artificial feuding of cable news…
Join Liz Voeller on an exploration through one of Herbert Simon’s key concepts and what it means for addressing complexity in our own lives. Systems demonstrate the property of “near-decomposability” when interactions WITHIN each subsystem are stronger than the interaction AMONG subsystems. This concept, made legible by Herbert Simon in his essay The Architecture of…
