ii’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 event…
Join 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…
What 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…
ii’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 event is a rerun of the Metaphoring salon, and is adapted for US & Asia timezones. Whether it’s as stiff as a dead leaf,…
Join 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…
Join 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 of _Beowulf_: Beowulf's battle with Grendel. We'll also introduce ourselves to the Old English epic. What was the language like? How do we read it?…
Join 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 with Grendel's mother. We'll also examine the different choices translators have made in translating Beowulf: verse or prose? archaic or modern? strange or familiar? Reading…
Debut 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…
ii’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…
Join 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…
Join 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…
Sílvia 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…
