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…
In this salon, Mashal Waqar hosts a conversation about how and when to take chances in life. When you look back and think about how you’ve gotten to a certain stage in anything, there’s often dots you can connect and paths you can trace back. It’s easier to do when looking back, but how do you do…
Autumnal read-aloud salons return with Interintellect host Catherine Woodiwiss! For millennia, as nights grow longer and the air gets colder, humans have gathered together to shelter and tell each other stories. The earliest stories were rooted in the natural world — finding lessons and meaning in the autumnal turn that brings us from light to…
Join London ii hosts Flick Hardingham and Irene JK as we reflect on Herbert Spencer's ideas are relevant (or not) in today's society and our own lives. Some questions to prompt your curiosity. In the mid-1800s, as England was ushering in the industrial era, Herbert Spencer gained prominence for his intellectual and scientific prowess. A man with varied interests…
Welcome to the third salon of a mini-series on all things community hosted by Lucia Asanache – she will explore, with support from wonderful guests, the power and potential of communities for improving our society. Inspired by her work building global communities around tech policy at the Tony Blair Institute, Lucia is keen to share but also to…
Video production basics workshop for existing and prospective hosts! With every year the tools used for media production grow increasingly powerful, but communicating your message with video and audio doesn't have to be complicated. Olga Yakimenko is a video editor and past videographer with experience in video and podcast production, and is keen to share…
Empathetic leadership, work-life balance, team first approach... Join re:collect AI’s Alice Albrecht and Interintellect’s Anna Gát for an intimate salon on the lessons learned as a female or nonbinary founder and why they can be useful for everyone! Founding and running a startup can feel like alternating between Olympic sprints and marathons, and one way…
Join Alaka Halder and fellow hosts for a warm, casual, audio-only chat! Grab a drink, get cozy, and come hang out in the Host Lounge voice channel on Discord. How are you doing? What projects are you working on? Would you like feedback or a collaborator? Do you have any burning questions about planning, promoting,…
In his debut Salon, Jack Chong leads a discussion on how espionage is portrayed in movies and television series, and why it is portrayed the way it is. As a self-proclaimed nerd on espionage, these are the movies and television series (in English only, excluding Chinese and French-made works) that Jack has watched. If you have…
Eyal Shay read a story to his little girl, but as she dozed off to sleep, he stayed up contemplating its meaning and looking for the story behind the story. When Reddy heard about it, there was a burst of recognition, for this was the story whose plot he'd vaguely known all his life without…
