The phrase "intellectual gathering" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when referring to a group of people who have gathered together for a discussion or exchange of ideas on a particular topic. For example: "We enjoyed attending the intellectual gathering at the library last night to discuss the impact of technology on our lives."
Instead, the campus library has become an intellectual gathering place.
"I support Oakland and people taking to the streets, but I'd take an intellectual gathering any day," he said.
What may lead us to believe that not all is lost, however, has been the growth of independent fact-checking sites, a true manifestation of how the Internet is facilitating the evolution of a new intellectual gathering place.
Under widespread state censorship, visual and conceptual art in Iran has a limited audience, confined to private galleries or intellectual gatherings.
The Congress for Cultural Freedom whose intellectual and political arousals he envied was started in West Berlin in 1950 to counter and discredit pro-Communist intellectual gatherings in New York, but the CCF was soon exposed in the New York Times as a project established and funded significantly by the Central Intelligence Agency.
Montevideo was a modern capital with wide boulevards, parks and intellectuals gathering in coffee houses; Buenos Aires was "a cosmopolitan city of grandeur and sophistication".
In the old days, the movement was composed of extremely small groups of urban intellectuals gathering secret petitions, furtively meeting with Western visitors, and risking jail at every turn.
At the time, the Anti-Rightist Campaign, ofe of Mao's purges of intellectuals, was gathering force, and Ai Qing's devotion to the Party was called into question.
Its intention is to create an "intellectual biography... gathering what we can from his plays and his poems", but its ambition is larger than that.
More than just pictures and prose, Barack Obama gave us a prelude to his presidency: hands-on information gathering, intellectual and emotional call to service that will keep us safe and free.
