Cet atelier est conçu pour les étudiant·es apprenant le français langue seconde. Il n’est pas destiné aux étudiant·es ayant le français comme langue première.
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.
Date: Oct. 23rd, 2024
Time: 12:00 - 1:00 pm
Location: in-person @ Engine Seminar Room -FDA 3 (Accessibility Map)
Take a break with your Local Wellness Advisor, a member of the Arts OASIS team and your peers. This is a time to relax with free tea and hot chocolate and an opportunity to chat about wellness and/or academic advising. Please bring your own mug to enjoy hot chocolate or tea.
Did Newton’s dog really set fire to his manuscripts? Was Einstein’s brain stolen after his death and "lost" for nearly two decades? Did Descartes build an automaton to replace his deceased daughter? This lecture will explore how both true and apocryphal stories have shaped public perceptions of science, scientific discovery, and its most iconic figures. Through this exploration, the lecture will emphasize the power of anecdotes as literary devices, revealing how they serve as intersections between philosophical ideas and the narratives through which science is understood.
The sedimented cultural and geopolitical histories of the Asia Pacific are hidden deep in the earth’s strata, submerged under the ocean waves, and preserved by forests, rivers, reefs, and islands. Such layered formations and transformations of the region have posed new challenges and opportunities for environmental humanities scholars and artists interested in exploring interconnected processes of mediation that move beyond national boundaries and technological milieus.
The sedimented cultural and geopolitical histories of the Asia Pacific are hidden deep in the earth’s strata, submerged under the ocean waves, and preserved by forests, rivers, reefs, and islands. Such layered formations and transformations of the region have posed new challenges and opportunities for environmental humanities scholars and artists interested in exploring interconnected processes of mediation that move beyond national boundaries and technological milieus.
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. The Five Forces Framework will be presented and applied to during an exercise.
Date: Oct. 29th, 2024
Time: 1:00 - 2:00 pm
Location: in-person @ Engine Seminar Room - FDA 3 (Accessibility Map)
Cet atelier est conçu pour les étudiant·es apprenant le français langue seconde. Il n’est pas destiné aux étudiant·es ayant le français comme langue première.
Tania Branigan, Foreign Leader Writer atThe Guardian, will deliver the 2024 Cundill Lecture on her award winning book,Red Memory: Living, Remembering and Forgetting China's Cultural Revolution. Branigan was awarded the 2023 Cundill History Prize for her “haunting” excavation of the Cultural Revolution. Uncovering forty years of silence, following countless hours of interviews, Branigan’sRed Memorygives voices to those who lived through Mao’s decade of madness.
Take a break with your Local Wellness Advisor, a member of the Arts OASIS team and your peers. This is a time to relax with free tea and hot chocolate and an opportunity to chat about wellness and/or academic advising. Please bring your own mug to enjoy hot chocolate or tea.
Hosted by Ara Osterweil & Alexander Manshel
Wednesday, October 30, 5-8 pm
Faculty Club Ballroom, 3450 rue McTavish
Come join the Department of English for an evening devoted to historical fiction in literature. 2024 Richler Writers-in-Residence Ann-Marie MacDonald and Heather O’Neill will read from their recent novels, followed by a discussion about historical fiction with Professor Alexander Manshel and Ara Osterweil.
Wine and snacks will be served.
Please come dressed in costume as your favorite literary or historical character.
Led by a team of caseworkers from , this workshop provides startup founders with a clear path through the legal landscape, offering insight on important considerations such as incorporation, governance, fundraising, and selecting the ideal legal structure.
Date: Nov. 5th, 2024
Time: 1:00 - 2:00 pm
Location: in-person @ Engine Seminar Room - FDA 3 (Accessibility Map)
Cet atelier est conçu pour les étudiant·es apprenant le français langue seconde. Il n’est pas destiné aux étudiant·es ayant le français comme langue première.