The Town and the Country Through Time

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In this first salon of a three part series Henry Dashwood invites you to explore the similarities, differences, and relationships between rural and urban life.  At length the townsman cries: "I wonder how You can live here, friend, on this hill's rough brow: Take my advice, and leave these ups and downs, This hill and dale, for humankind and…

The End of the American Century

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In this salon, Sean Patrick Hughes discusses the notion of the American Century and its apparent conclusion in the post Cold War era. "Think of the late ’90s. Microsoft, Tomahawks, Titanic. Our economy, military, and culture were unchallenged, apparently unchallengeable. It hasn’t been like that before or since. Those years were, you could say, the high-water mark…

Soundscapes of Our Lives: from Internal Monologue to the Martian Wind

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On April 21, Interintellect Victoria Egorenkova continues to explore the narrative of spaces at her salon dedicated to soundscapes. Everything from our internal monologues to the Martian soundscape - where do we connect with the so called reality and get a sense of the places we are in?  We will be moving through time and…

The Silly Nature of Social Status – Improv Games

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Interintellect Maybe Gray leads a workshop demonstrating the flexibility of the perceptions of social status through improvisational games. Social status is often framed as a negative thing - it's fixed, it creates barriers, it fosters exclusions, it hurts feelings, and it frustrates attempts to communicate ideas. It can be seen through such a stark, black…

The Story Of Philosophy Series – The Greek Philosophers Part Two

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Join London ii Hosts Flick Hardingham and Irene JK to discuss and examine Aristotle’s Virtue Ethics, his life, and other views, exploring how his ideas might be relevant (or not) in today’s society and how they might serve us into the future. The Greek philosopher Aristotle (384-322 B.C.) made significant and lasting contributions to nearly…

Once Upon a Time: Narrate Your Story! – With Anwar AlKandari

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In this salon, Anwar AlKandari will dive into: storytelling and our constant urge to seek meaning, forms of narratives we use, and digital storytelling. “In the Ottoman times, there were itinerant storytellers called "meddah." They would go to coffee houses, where they would tell a story in front of an audience, often improvising. With each…

Networked Minds: The History and Future of Collaboration

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Interintellect hosts Bryan Kam and Isabela Granic join forces with a new salon that aims to take a deep dive into the history and potential of networked thought. “The great driver of scientific and technological innovation the increase in our ability to reach out and exchange ideas with other people, and to borrow other people’s…