Elena Ferrante’s The Days of Abandonment

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  Jaycel Adkins in his debut invites you to a new Interintellect reading salon, where we will together experience one of Elena Ferrante’s “tactile and sensual, visceral and dizzying”* first novels: “The Days of Abandonment” on May 30th.    “One April afternoon, right after lunch, my husband announced that he wanted to leave me. He did it while…

$15.00

Ted Chiang Part 5: Tweaks to the Human Mind

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Étienne Fortier-Dubois leads a series of thematic discussions on the work of science fiction author Ted Chiang. In Part 5, we discuss deliberate modifications to human psychology. What if we could affect the way we perceive attractiveness, or the way we remember things? Ted Chiang ranks among the best living authors of science fiction. Though…

$15.00

Exploring Collage Techniques and Visualising Our Stories

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At this Interintellect salon/workshop Patricia Hurducas will lead a discussion about collage techniques and ways of expression via images, photographs, drawings, paintings. The salon will start with a short presentation with emphasis on well-known artists that used collages as means of expression (Schwitters, Picasso, Matisse, Gris, among many others) and an introduction to the most…

$9.00

Members Only: How We Can Ask for More and “Sell” Ourselves – For Introverts!

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Interintellect Bronwyn Williams hosts an introverts guide to asking for what you want. You (yes, even you) can get better at self promotion - even when you really don't want to! We will discuss the magical art of asking for exactly what you want and being surprised at how often you actually get it. We…

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The Only Child

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In this Interintellect Salon, Indy Neogy will host a conversation on the experience and meaning of growing up as an only child. For most of history, the norm has been for families to have a number of children. It is only post 1945 that changing economic and societal circumstances has in general slowly led to more…

$15.00

Rationality / Rationalization: Navigating Religious Space and Reason

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Muslim, Christian, atheist... Join Thomas Arnold and Haider Al-Mosawi as they explore the relationships between rationality, rationalization, and religion in this salon, which is part of a new Comparative Religion salon track. Rationality begins with looking at evidence to draw a conclusion, whereas rationalization begins with a conclusion and looks for evidence to support it.…

$15.00

Luxury Values – Veblen Goods (and Bads) and the Leisure Class – A Dead Economists Salon Series

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The Dead Economists Society Salon series continues as Bronwyn Williams and Peter Isztin investigate Veblen goods: products that become more desirable as they become more expensive. "With the exception of the instinct of self-preservation, the propensity for…

$20.00

Healing from the Punches: Comedy as Medicine with Hannah Gadsby

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In this salon, Interintellect co-hosts Amir H. Hajizamani + Catherine Woodiwiss invite you to explore the relationships between comedy, trauma, and healing, with the help of groundbreaking show “Nanette,” by Hannah Gadsby. “Laughter is not our medicine. Stories hold our cure. Laughter is just the honey that sweetens the bitter medicine.” —Hannah Gadsby In 2017,…

$10.00

Express Yourself Through Software: Work With Your Tools, Not Against Them

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In this Salon, behavioral product strategist Rob Haisfield and real life monastic Matt Goldenberg will guide a discussion how we can learn and use software in a way that allows both deep expertise, as well as happiness and fulfilment. Software is rapidly encroaching into every aspect of our lives. It can be frustrating to use…

$12.00