Interintellect founder Anna Gát continues her series A History of Love with an episode focusing on the period between the Copernican Revolution and the French Revolution. A turbulent time in…
How do literature and music interrelate, and how can they enliven each other? Join us for the Words and Sounds series led by Ulkar Aghayeva, Daniel Hass, Lily Rock, Jameel…
Interintellect community members and hosts once again gather for a casual play-reading séance. At this time we will be reading a beautiful, timely text on heroism, motherhood, justice, and war,…
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…
Discussion salon, hosted by Henry Oliver, about a recent Belarusian novel translated from the Russian, Red Crosses by Sasha Filipenko. Nobel Prize winner Svetlana Alexievitch said, "If you want to…
Who says show and tell is just for kids? In Alma Cook's monthly miniseries, we'll discuss simple concepts in a collaborative way, using attendees' own selections from arts and culture…
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…
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…
Dr. Jennifer Frey (associate professor of philosophy at the University of South Carolina and host of the literature, philosophy, and theology podcast, Sacred and Profane Love) explores the fiction of…
Interintellect founder Anna Gát continues her series A History of Love with an episode focusing on the Long Nineteenth Century, from the French Revolution to the sinking of the Titanic. The only recent century more turbulent than the 20th must have been the one before it, the infamous nineteenth century, with its prudes and its colonists,…
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 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…
This is the fourth salon in a six part series on Flannery O'Connor and American Catholic fiction, led by Dr. Jennifer Frey, associate professor of philosophy at the University of South Carolina and host of the philosophy, literature, and theology podcast, Sacred and Profane Love. Flannery O’Connor once wrote that "evil is not a problem…
