How to Read a Poem: I. Fire and Ice
OnlineHenry Oliver is a literature blogger at The Common Reader. This salon will guide through some of the great English language poems and show you how to understand their nuances and…
Henry Oliver is a literature blogger at The Common Reader. This salon will guide through some of the great English language poems and show you how to understand their nuances and…
Join RJ Barman for an offline SF Bay Area casual discussion about keeping up an interest in the humanities while spending your days working in STEM. How do you manage…
New to the Interintellect community or want to hang out with new and other members? Join Interintellect editor and host, Arkadiusz, for a casual hangout. Feel free to bring some…
Tyler Cowen, Holbert L. Harris Chair of Economics at George Mason University and faculty director of the Mercatus Center, joins host Alaka Halder to discuss his exciting new generative book…
Join host Joseline Yu to explore the nature of war and fate in the heroic epic Iliad, as part of the Western Canon Book Club series. Homer's Iliad pulses with conflict — the lifeblood of storytelling. The heroic epic poem brings to life the legendary war between the Trojans and the Greeks, along with the…
Join Mary Harrington and Bronwyn Williams as we discuss boys and girls and the future of us, drawing from gender economics research, lived wisdom, and the scapula-sharp wit in Mary's…
Join host Joseline Yu to delve into the world of Greek tragedy through a discussion on Sophocles' Oedipus the King and other Theban plays, as part of the Western Canon…
Join us for an evening with Nir Eyal, acclaimed author of bestselling books like “Hooked- How to Build Habit Forming Products” and Indistractable–How to Control Your Attention and Choose Your Life, to delve into the art of attention in a hyper-connected era. In this salon, we'll explore ways to harness focus to lead and cultivate a distraction-free…
This meetup is to celebrate the launch of Interintellect member Salman Ansari's book, Wandering Spirits. A whimsical adventure awaits! Come meet fellow community members, hear from the author, and chat…
Harvard Business School professor and a16z research partner Scott Kominers and web3 entrepreneur Steve Kaczynski join hosts Alaka Halder and Wes Chow for a SuperSalon on how NFTs will become…
Join 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 Canon Book Club series. Ovid's Metamorphoses stitches together various myths to create an all-encompassing story of the changes in history since the creation of the…
Entrepreneur, 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…