Culture and Identity in the Cold War

Online

In their debut salon Lisa Wehden examines culture, emotions and the daily life of Europeans during the Cold War. We'll explore themes of material culture, memory and nostalgia, death and changing notions of private life. The texts offer perspectives from both the east and west, encouraging comparisons across the Iron Curtain. We'll explore how individuals were impacted…

$10.00

History and Classical Music

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Interintellect host Linus Lu continues his series all about classical music by exploring the relationship between classical music and history.  This salon will dive into the history of classical music and be about history through classical music. We go through the different periods of classical music, from the earliest ancient roots (which have more echoes in modern…

$20.00

IRL London. The Psychological and Physiological Benefits of Going Outside. Mens Sana #5

London London

Join Interintellect host Ben Fleming for a London meet-up and experience the many health benefits of being outdoors. It feels great to be outdoors! After a year of being urged to stay confined inside buildings, now is the time to learn about and examine all the ways being outside can be beneficial for our health.…

Free

Jests of Genius: The Charms and Scandals of Vladimir Nabokov

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Interintellect founder Anna Gát hosts an intimate literary salon discussing the works, reputation and legacy of the Russian-American novelist. All book-lovers welcome! Brave. Preposterous. Genius. Unputdownable. Uncancellable. Hard to talk about the 20th century novelist virtuoso Vladimir Nabokov without a string of big adjectives. The author of the infamous Lolita, the iconoclastic Pale Fire and…

$30.00

The Curation Series – Becoming the Curator (Part 3) with Patricia Hurducas

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During this Interintellect Curation Series Patricia Hurducas will lead a discussion on the topic of curation in three parts: Understanding the Curator (Part 1), Copying the Curator (Part 2), and Becoming the Curator (Part 3).   In the third part of the series - Becoming the Curator - we will discuss the museums of the…

$25.00

Home on the Internet – With Emmett Shear, Anna Gát and Visakan Veerasamy

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In this exciting upcoming SuperSalon, Twitch CEO Emmett Shear, the internet's favourite "friendly ambitious nerd" Visakan Veeraasmy, and Interintellect founder Anna Gát discuss online communities, global bonding, web3 subcultures and cyber-families. Come join us! The past one and a half years have brought the world challenges at an unprecedented scale: we spent our seemingly unending…

$25.00

Writer’s Corner: Writing in Theory and Practice, Chapter 5

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In these Interintellect workshop salons, Sylvia R helps us master the art of the short fiction through reading some of the greatest short story writers and analyzing their techniques. In this session, we’ll read Turgenev's "The Singers" and its analysis in “A Swim in a Pond in the Rain”, George Saunders’s literary masterclass on what makes…

$5.00

Salons from a Hat

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In this salon Maybe Gray invites you to explore a series of mystery topics for which she has not prepared to talk about at all. This brand new approach to improvisation at the interintellect is inspired by the Whose Line is it Anyway? improv game "Scenes from a Hat". In this game, a series of…

$25.00

A History of War – Strategy Part I: Intelligence, Planning, Iteration

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In this salon, Interintellect founder Anna Gát leads a discussion on military intelligence - strategic, operational, tactical. We will look at the history of espionage and strategic planning, as well as the lead-ups to some of the most famous battles. This event is part of our A History of War series; no previous attendance or…

$25.00

Building a Better Society through Writing and Community Management – What’s the Right Balance? A Conversation with Glen Weyl

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Join economist, social technologist and RadicalXChange founder Glen Weyl and Interintellect co-hosts Alaka Halder and Wes Chow for this special members-only salon! Glen Weyl is a rare force in academia, public discourse, and movement building. One of the world’s foremost political economists, he co-invented groundbreaking systems such as quadratic voting to help societies make better…

Free