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 what does freedom means to every individual, how does passion plays a part in human consciousness, is reason reasonable, and if…
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…
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…
When was the last time you felt ‘in limbo’ with someone that is more than a friend, maybe a lover, but never forever? How do you know if someone is more than just a friend? How would you define the milestones that mark the progression from friend to a lover? Is it a fluid connection… Continue reading Sparks Between Us: From Friends to Lovers, Or Friends Yet Again?
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 what is knowledge, is all knowledge good or even required, what does knowing the self, mean, can knowledge be taught or…
Join London ii hosts Flick Hardingham and Irene JK as we reflect on Herbert Spencer's ideas are relevant (or not) in today's society and our own lives. Some questions to prompt your curiosity. In the mid-1800s, as England was ushering in the industrial era, Herbert Spencer gained prominence for his intellectual and scientific prowess. A man with varied interests…
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…
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…
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 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…
