Western Canon Book Club: Metamorphoses
OnlineJoin host Joseline Yu for a discussion on Ovid's Metamorphoses to unravel the threads of chaos, love and lust weaved throughout the narrative poem's mythical tales, as part of the Western…
$15.00
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Berlin IRL: Building Community Through Hosting
BerlinJoin Lukas Rosenstock for a casual IRL meetup in Berlin to talk about how we can build diverse community through hosting events and bringing people together. People want to connect with people—whether it's to find a new job, business prospect, dating, or finding a sense of belonging and intellectual or emotional exchange with like-minded folks.…
Human Flourishing in the Age of AI
OnlineHave you wondered how you'll navigate a world after AI has fully taken root? Join Oliver King to discuss how we might expect to see larger economic and technological forces play out in our own lives. The ability to create and carry out good works is fundamental to our humanity, and a necessary ingredient to…
$30.00
LA IRL Pizza-Making and Question-Asking Hangout
Los Angeles Los Angeles, CAMinh is an AI researcher, educator, and entrepreneur and we'd like to focus on Questions. Come over to my house and make homemade pizza in my pizza oven. Bring a question to ask other friends that is not related to work to stimulate conversation. This is an introductory event—we'll be hosting more, depending on reception…
Emily Dickinson: Seeing Life beyond the Ordinary
OnlineJoin Topi Heikkerö to read and discuss Emily Dickinson’s classic poems. In this salon, we’ll dive into three powerful poems by Emily Dickinson. The emphasis is more on her vision of life, rather than technical analysis of her writing. The promise is that Dickinson can open up the world and life in ways that are…
$20.00
From Aliens to the New Age: Alternative Spirituality and the American Counterculture
OnlineJoin theology professor and author Matthew Bowman (The Abduction of Betty and Barney Hill) in conversation with novelist and theologian Tara Isabella Burton (Self-Made: Creating Our Identities from Da Vinci to the Kardashians) for a wide-ranging salon about alien abduction, the New Age, and the countercultural roots of contemporary American spirituality. Today fewer and fewer…
$15.00
Austin IRL Gathering
Austin, Texas TXJoin scientist and longtime Interintellect host Taylor Pullinger for an IRL hangout while she’s visiting Austin from New York City. Come enjoy the company of your fellow ii members in Austin at a spacious outdoor beer garden! We’ll catch up with old friends, meet new ones, and join together in lively discussion about the topics…
Community Casual Hangout
ii Café Voice ChannelNew to the Interintellect community or want to hang out with new and other members? Join Interintellect editor and host, Timothy Wilcox, for a casual hangout. Feel free to bring some drinks and snacks! Come make new connections with the Interintellect community. We’ll introduce ourselves, chat on anything that is on our minds, and have a…
Breakthroughs in Human Value and Morality
OnlineJoin Alex Criddle for the sixth salon in the Breakthroughs series and explore the evolution and development of human valuation and moral systems. After exploring the role political structures play in human progress, we'll look at the moral dimension of human progress. Do political systems facilitate breakthroughs in morality? We'll trace the moral trajectories of…
$20.00
Death Over Coffee: Sunday Morning Contemplations
OnlineEntrepreneur, death doula, and adventure-seeker. Driven by her curiosities and inquisitive nature, Maura McInerney-Rowley founded Death Archetypes, Hello, Mortal, and Mauri (an end-of-life consultancy) to transform the denial of death into a celebration of life. Are you ready to embrace the reality of your mortality? Honoring our shared mortality can bring us together and awaken…
Life as Remix: Washington DC social with Anna and Olga
Washington DCJoin us for coffee, beer, encounter, and conversation in Washington DC! We will be discussing the myriads of projects and preferences that make up an individual life, the many creative…
Philosophy as Play
OnlineA light exploration of existential and abstract philosophical issues, in dialogue with Christophe Porot, a Scholar in Residence at Cambridge University and a lover of both advanced and amateur explorations of philosophy. This series of open-ended discussions will run each Tuesday in the #ii Café voice and video channel on the Interintellect community forum on…