The Adult Lives of Children of Narcissistic Parents

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In this Interintellect Salon, Matjaž Leonardis will host a conversation on life trajectories of children of narcissistic parents and their common life and relationships problems.  The stories are different, but the patterns repeat. Whether it one failed relationship after another, one career change after another, patterns of behaviour that alienate others or difficulty with dealing with…

Charting the careers of successful public intellectuals

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In his latest Interintellect Salon, Visakan Veerasamy will lead an exploration of successful creatives and intellectuals throughout history.  Let's focus particularly on people who achieved success during their lifetimes. How did intellectuals achieve positions of power, influence, status? What were the stepping stones along the way? In this Salon, let’s ask and explore: How do…

The Story of Industrial Civilization: Introduction

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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.…

The Town and the Country Through Time

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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…

The End of the American Century

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In this salon, Sean Patrick Hughes discusses the notion of the American Century and its apparent conclusion in the post Cold War era. "Think of the late ’90s. Microsoft, Tomahawks, Titanic. Our economy, military, and culture were unchallenged, apparently unchallengeable. It hasn’t been like that before or since. Those years were, you could say, the high-water mark…

Soundscapes of Our Lives: from Internal Monologue to the Martian Wind

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On April 21, Interintellect Victoria Egorenkova continues to explore the narrative of spaces at her salon dedicated to soundscapes. Everything from our internal monologues to the Martian soundscape - where do we connect with the so called reality and get a sense of the places we are in?  We will be moving through time and…

The Silly Nature of Social Status – Improv Games

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Interintellect Maybe Gray leads a workshop demonstrating the flexibility of the perceptions of social status through improvisational games. Social status is often framed as a negative thing - it's fixed, it creates barriers, it fosters exclusions, it hurts feelings, and it frustrates attempts to communicate ideas. It can be seen through such a stark, black…

Once Upon a Time: Narrate Your Story! – With Anwar AlKandari

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In this salon, Anwar AlKandari will dive into: storytelling and our constant urge to seek meaning, forms of narratives we use, and digital storytelling. “In the Ottoman times, there were itinerant storytellers called "meddah." They would go to coffee houses, where they would tell a story in front of an audience, often improvising. With each…