What Is the Good Life? – Washington DC Community Hangout

Washington DC

Come and join your fellow community members for a downtown discussion about the values and behaviours that enable the good life. The event will be hosted at a location offering snacks and drinks. Exact address will be shared via email with those who booked. See you there! Recommended reading: Good Life by Anna Gát  RVSP…

Unite and Win | Author Talk with the Emergency Workplace Organizing Committee – New Labor Book Series #18

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Join by three guests who organize with the Emergency Workplace Organizing Committee (EWOC), about their recently released guide to worker organizing: Unite and Win: the Workplace Organizer's Handbook—Daphna Thier, organizer and educator at EWOC, Terry Davis, a retired labor organizer formerly at the United Electrical Radio Machine Workers of America (UE), and Atulya Dora-Laskey, a…

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Transforming Health: Vital Signs from Your Mobile Device

Join Dr. Sandro Luna and host Camellia Yang for a deep dive into groundbreaking health technology that measures vital signs using only your smartphone. Discover how this innovation could change preventive healthcare forever. In this engaging salon, Dr. Sandro Luna, physician and health tech pioneer, will explore his revolutionary project funded by an OSV $100,000 fellowship grant. He is…

Flourishing After Leaving Religion: Navigating Life’s Transitions with Daryl Van Tongeren

Psychologist Daryl Van Tongeren joins Interintellect founder Anna Gát to discuss finding meaning and purpose after leaving religion. Join Daryl Van Tongeren, author of How to Flourish After Leaving Religion, to explore the emotional and social processes involved in religious change and get science-based guidance for building a new life without traditional religious frameworks. Drawing…

$20.00

Sam Harris Series | Episode 4: The Power of Conversation

Regan Arntz-Gray, who's been hosting a Sam Harris podcast discussion group for the past 6 years, is hosting a 4-month Interintellect Salon series on his body of work. Episode 4: The Power of Conversation Sam Harris is known for having diverse and difficult conversations with many people he disagrees with. While he doesn't believe one has…

$15.00

How To Flirt With The World

How do we make flirting a mode of moving through the world? Join Flirting Coach Ms. G to navigate what flirting looks like, feels like, and why we should be flirting all the time, with everybody. What if we thought of flirting as a way to shower everyone we meet with the most playful, attentive…

$15.00

Dreams of Sublimity: Chance encounters with “the sublime” in modern times

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Join Archer Lim, a Developer Relations, Community, Facilitation, and Product Marketing professional with a background in organizing, education, and strategy development. He was reared professionally in high-growth startup environments and, in another life, would have been an academic. Instead, he's an amateur philosopher and is part of this community! REMEMBER the last time you felt…

$10.00

Utopian Worldbuilding in Terra Ignota

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Ada Palmer's Terra Ignota series is a masterpiece of utopian worldbuilding. The author is a historian and professor of Renaissance, Enlightenment, and Humanist studies, and she uses those ideals to build a vast and beautiful future. Let's talk about each element of the Terra Ignota world, compare them to those Enlightenment ideals of the past, and discuss…

$20.00

Get Awards, Reviews, and Blurb for Your Book

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In her debut salon, interviewer and recent NYU MFA grad, Rashida Ashley, will speak with guest Chloe Faith Robinson, to discuss how literary lovers can obtain book blurbs, book reviews, and awards for their work. How all published authors, self-published authors, agents, publicists, and publishers across North America can acquire vibrant book blurbs, book reviews,…

Single Mingle September Edition

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Enjoy deep 1:1 conversations with fellow Interintellect singles ❤️‍🔥 Brought to you by Umer and Charmaine. Join us for an exciting summer edition of Interintellect’s Single Mingle! What's the buzz? In this exclusive salon, you'll be paired with someone new for 15 minutes of deep conversation in each round. After a short break, you’ll switch…

Plato on Representation: Barbie’s Philosophical World

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Want to better appreciate Greta Gerwig’s highbrow screenwriting, or been wanting to read some philosophy but need a bubblegum pink excuse? Join philosopher Ryan Miller for a series in which we read and discuss classic philosophical texts in conjunction with brief scenes from Barbie. 'Barbie changed everything! Then she changed it all again! All of…

$20.00