ii’s Camp Curiosity invites you to a wholesome workshop to inspect our emotional experiences through metaphors. This event is a rerun of the Metaphoring salon, and the timezone is adapted for most of the world! Thanks, daylight savings. Whether it’s as stiff as a dead leaf, or as tumultuous as the rolling storm...we each experience…
How can we inspire more progress in science and technology? Industrial fiction is one way to imagine our way into that reality. This writing workshop is for anyone who wants to hone their skills in telling stories about and around technical subject matter. Join Liz Voeller and Chelsea Slaven-Davis in this engaging three-part series. NOTE:…
Are you in Berlin? Come meet up with fellow Interintellects! Some ii friends are passing through this weekend, so if the weather cooperates, let's spend Sunday afternoon at Treptower park, or maybe Monday as a raincheck. There are food stalls around with lots of tasty options if you're hungry. *** 🗓 ii Calendar 📋 Code…
Join debut host Tom Fish (cartographer and author of FishEye) on a journey into how maps are not as reliable as you think they are. We use maps every day to find our way, understand the news, and figure out where Zanzabar is (East Africa; part of Tanzania). Through regular usage, we put our trust in…
Join host Colin Gorrie as we read the great Old English epic poem Beowulf together, as part of the Reading Beowulf series. This session will cover the rise of Beowulf to power as a king in his own right. We'll also discuss the heroic age that Beowulf purports to describe. What was it like? And how…
Join writer Sean Patrick Hughes in his ongoing series as we explore the culture, events and history of Generation X. I applied to Annapolis within a few years of Francis Fukuyama writing The End of History and The Last Man. The Cold War was over. And the long peace was to begin. I had no idea…
Interintellect hosts Patricia Hurducas and Catherine Woodiwiss will host a casual community gathering in London. We will come together for dinner and engage in a discussion about books, friendship, life, communities, and philosophy. The location will be announced to the participants one week in advance. Please note that you must RSVP to this event to attend. …
Progress writer Jason Crawford is writing a book about the modern 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…
Silicon Valley native currently in exile Max Dostart-Meers is focused on the intersection of the good life, the just society, and techno-optimistic capitalism. You can follow him on Twitter. Part of the Saving the City series, this salon asks: Why does it cost so much to build anything nowadays? In this salon, we will talk…
Part Three of the Understanding Addiction series hosted by psychologist and neuroscientist Marc Lewis, and drug, policy, and intervention researcher and activist Shaun Shelly. In the third salon, in a series of four, Marc Lewis will discuss Internal Family Systems (IFS) to overcome dependent drug use, and Shaun Shelly will focus on the usefulness of…
Dr. Jennifer Frey (associate professor of philosophy at the University of South Carolina and host of the literature, philosophy, and theology podcast, Sacred and Profane Love) explores the fiction of mid twentieth century Catholic writer, Flannery O’Connor in a 6-part series. In this salon, we will explore and discuss the ways that O’Connor uses the…
Join us to discuss the forgotten, marginalized heroes of the U.S. labor movement with Kim Kelly, on the eve of the release of her new book: Fight Like Hell: The Untold History of American Labor (which we’ll hear about before the book comes out). Hosted by Siena Chiang, we will speak to Kim about how…
