Join Interintellect producer Maria Górska-Piszek for another weekly hangout in the ii Café. This is the time to let your imagination go wild and think about the craziest salon ideas that…
Join linguists Colin Gorrie and Damian Romero to explore a controversial question: Do languages evolve to match the environment where they’re spoken? Do languages spoken in one environment work the…
In this series—Baby Steps to Beowulf: Old English for Beginners—linguist Colin Gorrie will teach you how to read Old English texts like Beowulf with the aid of a dictionary. Like every language,…
In the second salon of the Ideas Shape the World – An Introduction to Social Movements series, Robert Nemeth will guide you through a discussion about liberalism and liberal values. …
What is it like to be insane or perceived as insane by the world around you? Come explore the cosmos of alternative realities and concrete stigmas with Christophe Porot (christopheporot.com…
Hello, friends! Join Matt Neapolitan and fellow Interintellects in Santa Monica to discuss the nature of consciousness and what it is like to be something. Monism, Dualism, Physicalism, Panpsychism, and…
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…
Interintellect host and mentor Visakan Veerasamy hosts a fireside chat about expression. How are we expressing ourselves? Are we aware of it? Do we like it? Would we like to change…
The Art of Hosting is a new host training series, where Interintellect producer Maria Górska-Piszek interviews experienced ii hosts in search for their secrets, hard-won lessons, tips, and best practices. In…
Come explore the hows and whys of creativity with artist and writer, Anne Ross (@annerossart). All people are creative, but what makes a few of us actually create? What makes you pick up that guitar, or paint brush, or empty page? Do we need to cross this threshold only once? Do we have to wait…
Join us for our fifth author talk, with Max Alvarez and Courtney Smith, to discuss Max’s new book, The Work of Living, a human history of COVID-19—one of the defining events of the 21st century told by the people who lived it. Through a series of interviews conducted in 2020 and 2021, Max spoke with…
Join Interintellect producer Maria Górska-Piszek for another weekly hangout in the ii Café. This time we'll see how we can make listing the salon as simple as possible - and sort out all the obstacles you might find on the way. Have you thought about hosting a salon but don't know what would be the best…
