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…
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…
Interintellect Bronwyn Williams hosts an introverts guide to asking for what you want. You (yes, even you) can get better at self promotion - even when you really don't want to! We will discuss the magical art of asking for exactly what you want and being surprised at how often you actually get it. We…
In this Interintellect Salon, Indy Neogy will host a conversation on the experience and meaning of growing up as an only child. For most of history, the norm has been for families to have a number of children. It is only post 1945 that changing economic and societal circumstances has in general slowly led to more…
Muslim, Christian, atheist... Join Thomas Arnold and Haider Al-Mosawi as they explore the relationships between rationality, rationalization, and religion in this salon, which is part of a new Comparative Religion salon track. Rationality begins with looking at evidence to draw a conclusion, whereas rationalization begins with a conclusion and looks for evidence to support it.…
The Dead Economists Society Salon series continues as Bronwyn Williams and Peter Isztin investigate Veblen goods: products that become more desirable as they become more expensive. "With the exception of the instinct of self-preservation, the propensity for emulation is probably the strongest and most alert and persistent of the economic motives proper." ~ Thorstein Veble In this Dead Economists Society Salon, we will…
