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…
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 leads a discussion on how to host great salons. Friends, new and old, welcome to Interintellect! What makes a good ii salon? How do you choose a good topic? How do you make it compelling, interesting, exciting? And once you’ve got people interested, how do you make sure that it goes…
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 the power of prayers and surrender, a way to reach our own consciousness, what defines pleasure and beauty, are they interlinked…
Join London ii hosts Bryan Kam and Flick Hardingham as we continue our journey through Will Durant's 'The Story of Philosophy', discussing Nietzsche’s origins of morality and what it means for us today. German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900) has two famous catchphrases. God is dead. This exposes religion as a construct, created by the human…
In this six-month Interintellect Salon series, writer and editor Julie Mosow shares everything she knows about writing a book length manuscript, becoming the writer you've always hoped to be...and, most importantly, about finishing the work you start. We gravitate toward stories from an early age. But when it's time to write, we sometimes forget how…
ii’s very own Camp Curiosity invites you to a wholesome gathering to inspect our emotional experiences through collective metaphor building with hosts Helena Ng, Luke Butler, and Jeeva Vijay Prasath Whether it’s as stiff as a dead leaf, or as tumultuous as the rolling storm...we each experience a wide range of emotions that are rooted…
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 conclude the series by delving into facets of religion and what does it mean to be religious, what is death if not the…
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…
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…
Join linguist Colin Gorrie in the second in a series of salons investigating language for a look at how fictional languages are created. Many celebrated works of speculative fiction over the last hundred years have involved elaborate world-building, often to the extent of having whole languages or families of languages created for the project. Think…
Join Interintellect founder Anna Gát as she returns to the topic of last year's popular miniseries, A History of Love. In this first episode, we will talk about our evolutionary…
