The Art and Science of Learning Languages
OnlineJoin linguist and serial language learner Colin Gorrie in the third salon in a series investigating language for an exploration of how language learning works and how to do it…
$20.00
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What is the Good Kind of Propaganda?
OnlineWhat do we talk about when we talk about propaganda? Join Mattias Martens for a discussion of language, politics, and the ethics of communication. As a word for deceptive and…
$10.00
Metaphoring: Creating Shared Narratives of Emotions by Camp Curiosity #3
Onlineii’s very own Camp Curiosity hosts Jeeva Vijay, Helena Ng, and Luke Butler invite you to a wholesome gathering to inspect our emotional experiences through collective metaphor building. This…
$20.00
A Biography of the English Language
OnlineJoin linguist Colin Gorrie in the fifth salon in a series investigating language, this time spotlighting the history of the English language. In this salon, we'll turn back time to see how English once looked and sounded. We’ll look at how everything from the pronunciation to the grammar to the meaning of the words in…
$25.00
Reading Beowulf: Beowulf and Grendel + How to Read an Old English Epic
OnlineJoin host Colin Gorrie as we read the great Old English epic poem Beowulf together, as part of the Reading Beowulf series. For our first meeting, we'll discuss the first major section…
$25.00
Reading Beowulf: Grendel’s Mother + Translating Beowulf
OnlineJoin host Colin Gorrie as we read the great Old English epic poem Beowulf together, as part of the Reading Beowulf series. In this session, we'll talk about Beowulf's battle…
$25.00
WORDS WORTH – A Phat Propah Profound Pleasurable Prose Potluck
OnlineDebut host Sach Holden hosts a potluck book club! Have you ever stopped midway through a page and had an intense feeling or an insight and just wanted to share the author and those beautiful words with friends? Join our Interintellect members as we share a paragraph, a page, or a passage from our favourite…
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Metaphoring: An Emotional Exploration with Camp Curiosity
Onlineii’s Camp Curiosity invites you to a wholesome workshop to inspect our emotional experiences through metaphors. This event is a rerun of the Metaphoring salon, and the timezone is adapted for most of the world! Thanks, daylight savings. Whether it’s as stiff as a dead leaf, or as tumultuous as the rolling storm...we each experience…
$20.00
Reading Beowulf: The Rise of Beowulf + The Heroic Ethos
OnlineJoin host Colin Gorrie as we read the great Old English epic poem Beowulf together, as part of the Reading Beowulf series. This session will cover the rise of Beowulf to power as a king in his own right. We'll also discuss the heroic age that Beowulf purports to describe. What was it like? And how…
$25.00
Reading Beowulf: Beowulf and the Dragon + Beowulf and Tolkien
OnlineJoin host Colin Gorrie as we read the great Old English epic poem Beowulf together, as part of the Reading Beowulf series. In this session, we'll end our journey with Beowulf in discussing his final battle with the dragon. We'll also examine the enormous influence Beowulf had on Tolkien – who was probably the world's foremost Beowulf…
$25.00
Language Games (But Fun, Actually)
OnlineSílvia and Mycelium Mage invite you to join them in creating a new set of rules for communicating in a more grounded, playful and truthful way. What if we stopped trying to explain the things we’re trying to get at with words? What if we simply tried to express the felt sense of our relationship…
$20.00
In Our Own Image? SuperSalon with Irene Solaiman Exploring Ethics and Values in AI
OnlineIn this SuperSalon, AI & technology safety expert Irene Solaiman (ex-OpenAI, currently at Hugging Face) will spark discussion around AI & ethics, values and natural language processing, and fairness and…
$15.00