/history/taxonomy/term/249/all en /history/channels/event/techidea-pitch-competition-extended-submission-deadline-360679 <p>The TechIdea Pitch competition encourages McGill students, working in teams, to propose new technologically-based ideas/solutions that solve real world problems.</p> Fri, 25 Oct 2024 18:53:46 +0000 admin 1925 at /history /history/channels/event/pre-startup-skills-workshop-2-design-thinking-methodology-361972 <p>The learning objective of this workshop is to understand the fundamentals of the Design Thinking Methodology and how it promotes innovation.            </p> Mon, 09 Dec 2024 18:34:16 +0000 admin 1917 at /history /history/channels/event/pre-startup-skills-workshop-3-introduction-industry-analysis-361973 <p>This workshop will introduce the fundamental tool of Industry Analysis which companies use for strategy development. For startups, understanding the industry is a critical step in determining market entry and market positioning.</p> Mon, 09 Dec 2024 18:36:24 +0000 admin 1918 at /history /history/channels/event/pre-startup-skills-workshop-4-market-research-and-analysis-competition-361974 <p>This workshop will provide an overview of the different types of market research, how to analyze the competition, and the resources available at McGill to perform market research.</p> Mon, 09 Dec 2024 18:38:13 +0000 admin 1919 at /history /history/channels/event/pre-startup-skills-workshop-5-foundations-ip-and-patent-searching-361975 <p>This workshop will demystify and explain the various form of intellectual property (IP), namely, patents, industrial designs, copyright, trademarks, and trade secrets.</p> Mon, 09 Dec 2024 18:39:58 +0000 admin 1920 at /history /history/channels/event/pre-startup-skills-workshop-6-customer-discovery-361977 <p>This workshop will provide an overview of the customer discovery process and then delve deeper into how to conduct customer interviews and how to iterate on your business model or lean canvas.</p> Mon, 09 Dec 2024 18:41:34 +0000 admin 1921 at /history /history/channels/event/pre-startup-skills-workshop-1-technological-innovation-and-entrepreneurship-101-361971 <p>This workshop will provide an overview of what technological innovation is and what entrepreneurship is, as well an overview of the Entrepreneurial Mindset, the Lean Launchpad methodology, the Business Model Canvas and the Lean Canvas.</p> Mon, 09 Dec 2024 18:32:17 +0000 admin 1916 at /history /history/channels/event/colonial-histories-culture-wars-and-truths-about-empire-conversation-alan-lester-361341 <p>A conversation with <strong>Professor Alan Lester (University of Sussex) </strong></p> <p> </p> Thu, 21 Nov 2024 20:34:57 +0000 claire.ward@mcgill.ca 1891 at /history /history/channels/event/mbhs-myth-identity-history-coronation-and-endurance-british-monarchy-358379 <p><b>Jennifer Purcell </b>(Professor of History, St. Michael’s College, Vermont)</p> <p>“Myth, Identity & History: Coronation and the Endurance of British Monarchy”</p> <p> </p> <p><b>The Montreal British History Seminar, 2024-25</b></p> Thu, 15 Aug 2024 15:16:15 +0000 claire.ward@mcgill.ca 1764 at /history /history/channels/event/gods-feasts-and-gender-troubles-reflecting-2024-paris-olympics-opening-ceremony-361284 <p>The 2024-25 annual Tom Nacos & Family lecture</p> Tue, 19 Nov 2024 15:02:22 +0000 claire.ward@mcgill.ca 1888 at /history /history/channels/news/exam-period-access-nahum-gelber-law-library-fall-2024-361210 <p><em>La version française suit</em></p> <p>As of Monday, December 1, McGill students are able to access the <a href="/library/branches/law">Nahum Gelber Law Library </a>24 hours a day, seven days a week. <b>As agreed between the Students' Society of �㽶��Ƶ (SSMU) and the Law Students Association (LSA), the Nahum Gelber Law Library will limit access to the three upper floors of the library to Law students only during the December 2 to 20 examination period.</b></p> <p>Details are as follows:</p> Thu, 14 Nov 2024 23:58:39 +0000 admin 1885 at /history /history/channels/news/fifteen-new-or-renewed-canada-research-chairs-awarded-mcgill-361164 <div> <div> <p><em><strong><span><span><span><span>$<span>13.8<span><span> <span><span>million <span>in federal funding <span>for<span> <span>McGill’s cohort of <span>10 <span>new<span>,<span> five renewed Canada Research Chairs<span> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></strong></em></p></div></div> Thu, 14 Nov 2024 17:05:33 +0000 admin 1884 at /history /history/channels/event/agrarian-history-colonial-brazil-360617 <p>"For an agrarian history of colonial Brazil: a brief context of the usurpation and concentration of land through violence and legal subterfuge"<br /> <br /></p> Tue, 22 Oct 2024 15:05:18 +0000 claire.ward@mcgill.ca 1846 at /history /history/channels/event/iowc-speaker-series-zitian-sun-pitfalls-popularity-radicalization-dynamics-1989-tiananmen-student-360361 <p>This paper explores why radical mobilizational tactics failed to achieve social and political changes during the 1989 Tiananmen Student Movement.</p> Fri, 11 Oct 2024 16:31:48 +0000 claire.ward@mcgill.ca 1827 at /history /history/channels/event/land-and-highland-clearances-soil-upwards-360360 <p>Abstract: Despite their significance, popular experience of the Highland Clearances, a series of mass evictions and forced migrations in Gaelic-speaking Scotland from c1750-c1886, remain understudied in both history and archaeology.</p> Fri, 11 Oct 2024 16:26:52 +0000 claire.ward@mcgill.ca 1826 at /history