Arts and Minds: Conversations in New York – Interintellect x Museum Mile

New York NY

Higher Ground Education and Interintellect are pleased to present a series of in-person salons at Guidepost Museum Mile. The discussions will feature some of Interintellect’s best event hosts, and welcome Museum Mile parents, middle school students, as well as local members of the Interintellect community. Higher Ground is the largest and fastest-growing network of Montessori…

Free

Beauty, Cosmic Consciousness and the Meaning of Existence

Online

This Salon is for aesthetes, dreamers, and visionaries; for those who like to ask big questions and who are curious to dive deeper.  We will talk about aesthetics (specifically what beauty is, and pathways of knowing it), cosmology (including chaos theory), quantum mechanics, and consciousness - the nature of mind itself. These inter-related topics will…

$20.00

Bryan Kam on Neither/Nor

Online

In this exciting discussion, please join Interintellect fellow Bryan Kam to discuss his original philosophical work. No background in the subject is required. We live in two worlds: one of language, logic, concepts, and abstractions — and another, of sensations, experience, and intuition. They're inseparable and enrich one another, but each world has its own…

$15.00

London IRL with Anna Gát – Travel as Self-Growth

London, Barbican

Join Interintellect founder Anna Gát at this offline London social for a discussion of travel in relation to self-growth.   Things to read prior to the discussion: The Case Against Travel by Agnes Callard We have a new word for that feeling when travel makes everything new The Philosophy of Travel and The Experience of Otherness…

Free

Tales of Darkness and Music: Discussing ‘Tár’

Online

Todd Field's new movie Tár, starring the formidable Cate Blanchett, feels like more than just a cinematic experience: it is topical, physical, and deeply cerebral, raising questions around power, morality, and talent that are very often uncomfortable. In this casual salon, we will talk about the movie from all these angles, and compare our various interpretations…

$15.00

Pessoa’s city – Lisbon IRL – A meet & greet for new members

Lisbon

Interintellect founder Anna Gát hosts a casual dinner for new members living in or visiting lovely Lisbon where we will discuss Pessoa's poetry, as well as art, identity, language, and our journeys. Pessoa's bio and a few poems to read ahead of the gathering. The exact location of this gathering will be shared via email and the…

Free

Why Americans Don’t Understand Dictatorships

Online

We'll investigate what movies, TV series, and books from the West get so wrong about dictatorships, and whether this political naivety is a weakness or a superpower when it comes to real-life events. Hosted by Interintellect founder Anna Gát. Interintellect founder Anna Gát has long observed how modern Western depictions of dictatorial systems - A…

$25.00

How to Make a Self: Tara Isabella Burton on Identity, Belonging, and the Sacred

In Self-Made, Tara Isabella Burton delves into "the theories and forces behind our never-ending need to curate ourselves." In this Supersalon we will talk with Tara about how to put current "self-fashioning" into perspective, both comparatively and as a distinctive moment. Are we all Kardashians now? Does a godless, or at least perversely sacred, world…

$15.00