Hello! My name is Andy, you probably know me as the host of the History of Africa Podcast. The Aksumite Empire was a fascinating empire that dominated East Africa for…
The Dead Economists Society returns....except this time it is the Living Economists Society! Each month we will concentrate on the works of a particular living economist. Don't expect much esotery;…
Rhys Lindmark is writing a book about how information flows and how it’s changing on the internet. In a series of salons, we will explore this content together, chapter by chapter,…
Alex Tabarrok, Professor of Economics at George Mason University, joins hosts Alaka Halder and Wes Chow to discuss cryptoeconomics – the combination of cryptography and economics – which provides a…
Join host Helen Nde, Atlanta-based, Cameroonian-born writer and artist for an IRL salon in Atlanta. How have we flourished during the last year? How will we ensure our continued flourishing…
Hi, I am Arkadiusz Synowczyk and I study philosophy at Newcastle University (UK). I specialize in epistemology and philosophy of science. Come and join me to explore the relationship between…
Hello, I'm Clive Goddard, UK cartoonist and chair of the Professional Cartoonists' Organisation (PCO). I've managed to earn a living for the last 25 years in the ever-shrinking world of gag cartoons in newspapers, magazines, and books. The glory days of cartoons in print are sadly behind us now, but it is still possible to…
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…
