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…
Join Interintellect founder Anna Gát at a friendly debate on Greta Gerwig's movie Barbie. We will explore its style, message, humour, and success - or failure - as a feminist movie! If you haven't been living under a rock, you're probably aware that Greta Gerwig's movie Barbie is the talk of the town. We debate its…
How to host fascinating conversations on your favourite ideas, books or topics? Join Interintellect founder Anna Gát for this free and public session! Believe me, no Interintellect host is born with the magical knowledge of how to run a successful, engaging, friendly online salon (or offline social) – but these skills are easy to learn! Join our next…
Join Vaughn Tan in building a better relationship with the not-knowing that surrounds us. In episodes 6-8, we discussed how not-knowing arises in relation to actions, outcomes, causation, and value. Episode 9 is…
Join Jon Evans, founding director of the GitHub Archive Program, software engineer and sci-fi novelist, for an enlightening talk on the cultural history of AI doom. Over the last year,…
Join Oghenekevwe Emadago as he discusses Girlified, his groundbreaking project that tackles both pollution and barriers to education and employment for women and girls! The meeting will be hosted by Jasmine George, a women's health tech industry founder. Oghenekevwe is an environmental activist, entrepreneur, and female rights advocate. Over the past five years, he has worked…
Join Rabbi Zohar Atkins and Zachary Davis for a conversation about choosing religion in an age of disbelief and dechurching. Why be religious in our irreligious age? Because, according to Rabbi Zohar Atkins: The good life is a thoughtful one. Expertise is not the same as wisdom. Study is an end in itself. The life…
Join award-winning writer, Tara Isabella Burton, and Liberties managing editor, Celeste Marcus, for an offline social on authenticity, artificiality, and femininity! Please join Interintellect and Liberties Magazine for Female Fame, an offline salon (and…
"What's a man now, what's a man mean...?" Authors Christine Emba and Shadi Hamid return to Interintellect to try to find out: while women have spent the past century trying to redefine their role in the home, place in society, and relationship with themselves, what has been happening with men's self-image, role models, public participation?…
Join Interintellect founder Anna Gát for this FREE AND PUBLIC session where we'll discuss all you need to know about hosting online: tone, topic selection, listing, promotion, and audience management. Believe me, no Interintellect host is born with the magical knowledge of how to run a successful, engaging, friendly online salon (or offline social)—but these skills are easy…
Join Interintellect founder Anna Gát and writer Henry Oliver for a fireside chat about reason, faith, and everything in between. Is New Atheism dead? One of the central figures of the movement, Richard Dawkins, took unexpected turn and declared himself a "secular Christian." More recently, Ayaan Hirsi Ali, a well-known, self-described "infidel" championing secular ideals,…
In the third salon of his series on 7 things wrong with education, João will explore 2 of the main factors that contribute to helping the current educational system be…
