Interintellect Patricia Hurducas will lead a discussion on curation – from curation of objects in museums to curation of ideas in our personal projects. How can we become better curators and what does that entail? The word curation comes from the Latin word curare, meaning to look after. In Roman times, it meant to take…
Welcome to Writer’s Corner where we talk about and practice the craft of writing. Join Sylvia R in this session where we will focus on Hemingway. This session will focus on Hemingway and will be structured as follows: Section 1: Discuss We’ll dive into the formal qualities of "Indian Camp" (see pre-salon reading materials). We’ll discuss…
On April 13, Interintellect founder Anna Gát returns to discuss aspects of warfare, with a look at the breakout of wars: from the earliest days of tribal conflict to the most contemporary, mercenary proxy wars, and those fought in the cyberspace – or, soon, space. *** "The great end of life is not knowledge, but action. I…
In Part 1 of this two-part salon, Harry Ramsay will lead a discussion on the hotly-debated nature of talent: its origins, its definitions, and - indeed - its very existence. ---- "I wish I could , but I just don't have the talent for it..." How many times have you heard this? "If you stopped…
Fellow InterIntellect Helena Ng invites you to set up a personal Play Calendar of the month & join forces with fellow attendees to create more playtime in our lives. In the last Camp Curiosity salon, our fellow members huddled together in a collective reflection for all the thoughts, feelings, and re-negotiations we've had to experience…
Progress writer Jason Crawford is writing a book about this 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 running.…
In this first salon of a three part series Henry Dashwood invites you to explore the similarities, differences, and relationships between rural and urban life. At length the townsman cries: "I wonder how You can live here, friend, on this hill's rough brow: Take my advice, and leave these ups and downs, This hill and dale, for humankind and…
Join London ii Hosts Flick Hardingham and Irene JK to discuss and examine Aristotle’s Virtue Ethics, his life, and other views, exploring how his ideas might be relevant (or not) in today’s society and how they might serve us into the future. The Greek philosopher Aristotle (384-322 B.C.) made significant and lasting contributions to nearly…
In Part 2 of this two-part salon, Harry Ramsay will lead the conversation beyond mere definitions of talent into an expositional, participatory dialogue about how we can best cultivate what…
Welcome to Writer’s Corner where we talk about and practice the craft of writing. Join Sylvia R for this session on Gabriel García Márquez. The salon will include three sections: Section 1: Discuss We’ll dive into the formal qualities of “A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings” (see pre-salon reading materials). We’ll discuss structure…
On May 11, Interintellect founder Anna Gát returns to discuss aspects of warfare, with a look at wartime production and inventions. We will discuss necessity and motivation, coordination and mass production, new…
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…
