Interintellect founder Anna Gát continues her series A History of Love with an episode focusing on the period between the Copernican Revolution and the French Revolution. A turbulent time in Europe where basic tenets of social status, theological dogma, and geography are questioned. Many modern concepts - from parliamentary democracy to novel-reading, from city-dwelling to…
Join us to discuss the future of labor organizing with Erica Smiley and Sarita Gupta, on the eve of the release of their new book: The Future We Need – Organizing for a Better Democracy in the 21st Century (which we’ll hear about before the book comes out on April 15). Hosted by Siena Chiang,…
How do literature and music interrelate, and how can they enliven each other? Join us for the Words and Sounds series led by Ulkar Aghayeva, Daniel Hass, Lily Rock, Jameel Martin, and Ryan Tuozzolo we will discuss intersections between the two and how they can inspire each other. We will continue discussing the convergence points…
Interintellect community members and hosts once again gather for a casual play-reading séance. At this time we will be reading a beautiful, timely text on heroism, motherhood, justice, and war, by Bertold Brecht. Brecht’s play is set within the context of a dispute over land claimed by two communes in the Soviet Union after World War II. The main action…
Join host Colin Gorrie as we read the great Old English epic poem Beowulf together, as part of the Reading Beowulf series. In this session, we'll talk about Beowulf's battle with Grendel's mother. We'll also examine the different choices translators have made in translating Beowulf: verse or prose? archaic or modern? strange or familiar? Reading…
Visual artist turned medical educator Alexa Miller will host this salon centering experiences with visual art as a catalyst for expansion, innovation, connection, bias awareness, and shameless enjoyment. The topic of this Salon, the third in our 6-part series, is Works Made in Secret. We'll engage with a selection of works of art that artists made and,…
In this salon, Daniel Golliher examines the lessons that these two twentieth century thinkers offer for those of us hurtling through the twenty-first. This salon is the third of three in a mini-series comparing the thinkers Ayn Rand and Hannah Arendt. And hurtling we are. This ride is not slowing down—it’s faster and weirder from…
In this six-month Interintellect Salon series, writer and editor Julie Mosow shares everything she knows about writing, becoming the writer you’ve always hoped to be… and, most importantly, about finishing the work you start. Mental models, productivity systems, Zettelkasten, second brains – it’s easy to get distracted by infrastructure that isn’t actual writing. Which of these…
Tech emotionographer Pamela Pavliscak hosts an 8-month Interintellect Salon series while writing her new book #Feels: How Technology is Changing Our Emotional Life for the Better. Have you ever wondered why we feel compelled to note and name every new variation of sadness online? Or what you call that emotional hangover you can get after scrolling social…
Join members of the “Gödel, Escher, Bach” book club in reading through David Deutsch’s “The Beginning of Infinity.” Share the pleasure of wrestling with a challenging, thought-provoking book with the help of friendly peers’ additional eyes, hearts, minds, and experiences. Maybe you heard about it on Naval's podcast, or perhaps you follow the father of…
Join Isabela Granic and her co-host, Amir Hajizamani as we consider radical economic and social transformations developing across the globe, and their impact on how we think about, show up for, and re-design, our work-lives. In this second salon in the Our Hybrid Lives series, we'll focus on how workplaces across corporate, academia, creative, tech,…
Discussion salon, hosted by Henry Oliver, about a recent Belarusian novel translated from the Russian, Red Crosses by Sasha Filipenko. Nobel Prize winner Svetlana Alexievitch said, "If you want to get inside the head of modern, young Russia, read Filipenko." This is Filipenko's only novel translated into English. Red Crosses tells the story of Russia from…
