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…

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…

Nature vs. Nurture Part 2/2: Nurturing Our Nature and Cultivating Talent (with Harry Ramsay)

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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 talents we have - in our friends, our children, and (of course) ourselves. --- Having already deliberated the nature of talent in Part 1 of…