Come join David White for the next installment of a salon series dedicated to exploring the themes, ideas, and world-building of science fiction. We will be exploring the world of Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? and exploring what it means to be human in a world of lifelike androids. We will talk about humankind’s place in the…
Join Classicist Ashley Mehra and linguist Colin Gorrie to explore the roots of science fiction in the ancient world. In the second century Roman Empire, the Syrian satirist Lucian of Samosata wrote a short novel called A True Story (Greek: Ἀληθῆ διηγήματα, Latin: Vera Historia). In A True Story, the author reports a series of…
Once in a rare while, a songwriter comes along who manages to limn the emotional range of a generation, and yet also elude definition entirely. Joni Mitchell is unquestionably one of those songwriters. This salon will host Jamie Rumbelow , a software person and philosophy graduate, who was once a free man in Paris, but…
Share your experience of burnout and hear about others' experiences in this members-only salon. Mike Haber will be hosting and looking for how we work at our best and how we recognise when things are not going well. With the great resignation, quiet quitting, and everything else going on in the world, we can try…
Christina Waggaman is a former biostatistician and hospital infection preventionist who made a career change to study Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM), traditional Tibetan medicine (Sowa Rigpa), and yoga therapy. She is passionate about creating opportunities for generative dialogue between proponents, critics and patients of both modern western biomedicine and traditional health therapies. In this salon…
Join ii India community member Prateek Singh, for a casual lunchtime get together in London. Gallan Mithiyan - A Punjabi language word that resonates meaningful casual conversation in a community setting. Join us for an evening to have a relaxed conversation on the feeling of experiencing a country for the first time, friendship, the future…
If you're passionate about music and want to make new friends, join João Mateus for this debut members-only salon "music therapy" salon. After our successful Book Therapy and Movie Therapy gatherings, it's time to bring the same format to sharing music. We will share our personal stories, talk about our favorite tracks or albums, and…
As COVID restrictions relax, traveling has gotten back on the radar for many of us. Join 3 year vagrant Johnson Hsieh for some thoughtful conversations about traveling. Some questions we’ll explore: How do we relate to travel and status? What do I want out of travel? What am I running away from by traveling? How…
Join us for our next author talk in our worker organizing series, with Yvonne Martinez to discuss her new memoir, Someday Mija, You'll Learn the Difference Between a Whore and a Working Woman. The book chronicles Yvonne’s upbringing and family history in a Mexican family in Utah, weaving together how discoveries about family secrets including…
What is conservation when we are not talking about the environment? Come join museum conservator Angélica Isa in a discussion about the conservation of art and monuments. Why do we conserve? Who do we conserve for? Let’s get together to pick apart concepts about the restoration of art, the ethical aspects of material interventions, and…
Join us for a casual Town Hall in the Interintellect Discord to discuss the state of Twitter and planning the next stage of Interintellect hosts' social media use. (Click on the ii Cafe voice channel upon arrival and join via audio or video as you prefer). *** NOTE: THIS EVENT WILL TAKE PLACE IN THE…
In the fifth salon of the Ideas Shape the World - An Introduction to Social Movements series, hosted by Robert Nemeth, we will discuss anarchism and how it appears in today’s world and influences it. Anarchism developed as a distinctive strain within radical and revolutionary thought in the mid-19th century. Nowadays, some media quickly labels…
