In this salon, Peter Williams will explore tactics to reclaim your conversational confidence and evade impostor syndrome. We’ve all felt like a dummy before. When you're part of an interesting, intelligent, interdisciplinary group it can seem like a daily occurrence. 👀 “In the high country of the mind one has to become adjusted to the…
In his latest Interintellect salon, Alex Danco explores systems thinking, and the paradox of order amongst chaos. Here is a puzzle: There's only one thing we know for sure about the world, and that's the second law of thermodynamics. Entropy always increases. The world is continuously trending towards disorder: in the long run, potential energy…
Join Dr. Mark Jackson and Trent Fowler in a discussion of the fundamentals underlying this new paradigm in information processing, and what its economic impacts might be in the coming years. Few technologies have emerged in recent memory which have elicited as much breathless excitement and trenchant skepticism as quantum computing. We will be discussing the state of quantum…
In this salon Bronwyn Williams and Daniel Thomason ask ‘What Would Terry Pratchett Do?’, exploring the wisdom and insights of this much loved author. “The whole of life is just like watching a film. Only it’s as though you always get in ten minutes after the big picture has started, and no-one will tell you the plot, so you have to…
In this salon, Danish-American literary critic and biographer Morten Høi Jensen leads a discussion of Thomas Mann’s journey from right-wing patriot to liberal democrat in an exploration of the fraught relationship between art and politics. Like many writers of his generation, Mann welcomed the outbreak of the First World War as a deliverance from the…
In this special host training session with Olena Bulygina, we will discuss potentially "tricky", challenging or unpredictable situations that can arise during one's salon — and together crack them through possible steps and approaches for resolution. As hosts, we bring our hearts, minds and imperfections, and this is what makes us different and, well, us.…
In this Interintellect salon, Hollis Robbins invites you to consider reading poetry. Especially if you're not a regular poetry reader (yet!) Are you secretly insecure about poetry? Wish you could tell what makes a good poem "good," a great poem "great," and a bad poem "bad" (it is not just a matter of opinion)? Don't know the…
In this host training series, ii Camp Curiosity host Helena Ng will walk with you on the journey of hosting your own ii salons through the lens of the Hero's Journey. Helena is the host of Camp Curiosity, a series of workshop salons on discovering your own flavours of play, building a compendium of curious…
In the second offering of this improv workshop, Interintellect Maybe Gray invites you to explore the meaning of "masks" in theatre, psychology and spirituality. The use of tangible masks has existed throughout the history of dramatic performance. We all recognize the most iconic symbol of drama itself to be a pair of masks with exaggerated…
Jaycel Adkins in his debut invites you to a new Interintellect reading salon, where we will together experience one of Elena Ferrante’s “tactile and sensual, visceral and dizzying”* first novels: “The Days of Abandonment” on May 30th. “One April afternoon, right after lunch, my husband announced that he wanted to leave me. He did it while…
Étienne Fortier-Dubois leads a series of thematic discussions on the work of science fiction author Ted Chiang. In Part 5, we discuss deliberate modifications to human psychology. What if we could affect the way we perceive attractiveness, or the way we remember things? Ted Chiang ranks among the best living authors of science fiction. Though…
At this Interintellect salon/workshop Patricia Hurducas will lead a discussion about collage techniques and ways of expression via images, photographs, drawings, paintings. The salon will start with a short presentation with emphasis on well-known artists that used collages as means of expression (Schwitters, Picasso, Matisse, Gris, among many others) and an introduction to the most…
