Interintellect @ Vibecamp: Materializing the New Republic of Letters

Austin, Texas TX

If you're attending Vibecamp, join Étienne Fortier-Dubois and Alex Grin at this special Interintellect gathering to discuss the beauty and perils of manifesting online communities “in real life.” In the age of Enlightenment, the Republic of Letters was a group of intellectuals who lived across Europe and kept in touch through written correspondence. It was…

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Flannery O’Connor’s Vision of Grace

Online

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 how O’Connor understands the action of…

$25.00

Equanimity – Community Fireside Chat

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Interintellect host and mentor Visakan Veerasamy hosts a fireside chat about equanimity. These have been some grim-dark times. How are you coping? How are you feeling? Let's talk about it. *** 🗓 ii Calendar 📋 Code of Conduct – (Free stock image via Unsplash)

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Contract, Carnival, Tryst, and Trance – Love in the Middle Ages – A History of Love

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Interintellect founder Anna Gát continues her exploration of the history of love with a discussion on the Middle Ages and Renaissance. We will explore the dark centuries of perpetual war, plague, and Crusades,  as well as the buzzing peacetime cities of commerce and arts, and the role of religion in the family home.  We will…

$20.00

The Future Of Cities: Smart And Sustainable Or Segregated And Uninhabitable

Online

Roman Skorzus is a policy lead in the Tech for Development Policy Unit at the Tony Blair Institute for Global Change. He leads the development of actionable policies and strategies to harness the transformative opportunities of tech for developing and emerging economies. This salon is part of a new ten-part series called The Future Of…

$20.00

Generation X: Cinema

In this new series, writer Sean Patrick Hughes explores the culture, events and history of Generation X. At 7:30 PM eastern time on November 8, 1972, HBO launched the first premium pay cable station in America. By the end of the decade, it was in 10 million American households. By 1982 10% of American households…

$15.00

Tell Me a Story: Revision is Everything (Session 4 of 6)

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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. A first draft is just the beginning, but so is a second draft, and probably even a third. How many times do we need…

$25.00

Building a Music Studio at Home — Getting Started with Music Production

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In this free workshop salon, which kicks off a year-long introductory series at Interintellect, musician and sound engineer Zsolt Török invites you into the cozy and creative world of bedroom studios, and helps you take the first steps towards writing and recording your own music at home. Listening to Billie Eilish's Grammy-winning album When We…

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A Field Guide to Internet Emotion > 7.0 Robot Emotion

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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…

$20.00