In her debut salon, Maria Górska-Piszek invites you to explore how we ended in a culture of permanent adolescence, and what would be the best way out of it. Nobody feels like an adult these days, and many young people don't even aspire to be one. The usual badges of adulthood are either out of…
Interintellect Maybe Gray invites you to a very special Halloween salon! In the wake of the October Full Moon I extend to you a haunting invitation - accept it if you dare. The bravest of us will gather together with tales of terror from childhood nightmares, recitations of poetry that will make your skin crawl,…
Join this Salon with Mike Haber to discuss how we think about, talk about and ideally sell the things we're good at. Share your experiences and get some ideas for talking about what you're good at, and working with what you're not. Can you put what you're good at into words? Tell us about a…
When was the last time you felt ‘in limbo’ with someone that is more than a friend, maybe a lover, but never forever? How do you know if someone is more than just a friend? How would you define the milestones that mark the progression from friend to a lover? Is it a fluid connection…
What if you’re an Interintellect, but you just don’t know it yet…? Every day, we come together from across the world to talk about philosophy and science, art and technology, finance and history, religion and music: all the thoughts and emotions we experience as humans, without judgment or certificates. Sometimes we play games, share music,…
Interintellects Vidhika Bansal and Rosano invite you to reflect on the pivotal role technology plays in our lives, the trade-offs of its everpresence, and finding balance in the digital world. — Post-salon update: read takeaways from our conversation. — Nowadays, so many goods, services, and experiences are just a tap or click away. Need a…
In this salon series, Tanya Raj will lead deep-dive discussions on The Prophet by Khalil Gibran and his philosophy on living a life with purpose and meaning. In this salon, we will delve into what is knowledge, is all knowledge good or even required, what does knowing the self, mean, can knowledge be taught or…
Join Pavel Shibayev for an IRL picnic meetup in Central Park! Location: we'll gather on the Great Hill (close to the northwestern corner of the park; enter from W 106th Street). There should be picnic tables around, so no need to sit on the ground. Some food and snacks will be shared; please feel free…
In this Salon, veteran host and philosophical life coach Pamela J. Hobart invites participants to consider the concept of “clarity” in one’s life - What is it? Why do we want “clarity?” Should we want it? In over 2 years of philosophical life coaching work with over one hundred clients, virtually everyone has shown up…
In this salon, Anil Seth, professor of cognitive and computational neuroscience at the University of Sussex, co-director of the Canadian Institute for Advance Research Program on Brain, Mind, and Consciousness, will join us for a Q&A discussion of his new book: Being You — A New Science of Consciousness. The discussion will be co-hosted by…
"These days, it feels to me like you make a devil's pact when you walk into this country." - Zadie Smith, White Teeth Join engineer and mathematician Meghan Kane (an American in Berlin) and Interintellect founder Anna Gát (a triple immigrant of Hungarian origin) as we wade through the many aspects of the immigrant experience,…
In this salon debut host Vikram Das explores the limits of the English language. Ever racked your brain for a word you're convinced should exist, yet is inexplicably absent from the dictionary? All languages have their limitations-should English fall short, the expression may lie elsewhere. We are going to discuss linguistic gems that capture cultural…
