What are social technologies? How can they be used to address the challenges facing our world? Join veteran hosts Linus Lu and Dave Crouch to discuss how we can build and adapt cultural constructs to encourage peace, cooperation, and tolerance in a constantly-changing world. We mostly think of technology as devices, tools, and machines: physical…
A book club salon, hosted by Henry Oliver who writes The Common Reader. We will discuss The Tortoise and the Hare, by Elizabeth Jenkins, one of the great post-war English novels, a vicious, Austen-esque novel about the break-up of a marriage, late-bloomers, and changing social mores in 1950s Britain. As well as discussing the…
Join Jimmy Wales for a fun quiz on his platform inspired by his family quiz nights during lockdown. Quiz Night Beyond is a way to do fun pub quizzes over video online with friends and family. Jimmy designed QuizNightBeyond.com during lockdown as a part of his exploration in how to build healthier social spaces online - an extension of…
Join Werewolf game master Lukas Rosenstock for another round of the infamous social deduction game. The Interintellect village appears to be a place of friendly people, but things change when the full moon appears. Some villagers turn into werewolves at night, haunting the village and killing their innocent fellow townsfolks. It's crucial for the other…
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. This Salon's topic is: Great Works of Art and Powerful Questions: The Visual Thinking Strategies (VTS) Approach. The first in a 6-part monthly series, this Salon will feature in-depth…
In this Salon, veteran Host Scott Davies returns to take an interdisciplinary and wide-ranging approach to exploring the topic of existential hope. No matter your background or discipline, all perspectives are welcomed and encouraged to attend this Salon. We are inundated with negative and dystopian visions of the future. From the 24-hour news cycle to…
In this salon, Daniel Golliher examines the reception that both thinkers received in their own time, and how it compares to their legacies in the present. This salon is the…
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…
In this Interintellect Salon, host Dominic Duffin will lead a discussion of both the vision of where we imagine blockchain technology could take us and the practical usability of blockchain and cryptocurrency. Vision: Peer-to-peer trading in financial markets; Crowdfunding to buy a copy of the US Constitution; Connecting multiplayer game worlds to the real economy;…
ii’s very own Camp Curiosity hosts Jeeva Vijay, Helena Ng, and Luke Butler invite you to a wholesome gathering to inspect our emotional experiences through collective metaphor building. This event is a rerun of the Metaphoring salon, and is adapted for US & Asia timezones. Whether it’s as stiff as a dead leaf,…
Join London ii hosts Flick Hardingham and Irene JK in an exploration of the truth, inspired by philosopher William James. William James (1842-1910) was the father of American psychology as a formal discipline,…
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…
