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: Sep. 23rd, 2026
Time: 12:00 - 1:00 pm
Location: in-person @ Engine Seminar Room - FDA 3 (Accessibility Map)
Location: Zoom (virtual)
Are you thinking about pursuing an internship next summer but not sure where to begin? Join us for this information session to learn about the internship resources and opportunities available to Faculty of Arts students.
This workshop will demystify and explain the various form of intellectual property (IP), namely, patents, industrial designs, copyright, trademarks, and trade secrets. We will then do some actual patent searching using the DERWENT worldwide patent database.
Date: Sep. 30th, 2026
Time: 12:00 - 1:00 pm
Location: in-person @ Engine Seminar Room - FDA 3 (Accessibility Map)
McGillians and friends are invited to the 2nd Annual Faculty of Arts Showcase. This year’s event features the diverse academic and extracurricular experiences of our vibrant Arts community, with research posters, internship testimonies, academic and creative journals, theater productions, and other student-led initiatives.
Location: Zoom (virtual)
Are you an Arts undergraduate student interested in gaining hands-on research experience next summer? Join us for an information session on the Arts Undergraduate Research Internship Awards (ARIA). During the session, you’ll learn about eligibility, the application process, and the benefits of conducting research under the supervision of a faculty member.
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. Our market research librarian will walk us through some of those resources using a new market research canvas tool.
Date: Oct. 7th, 2026
Time: 12:00 - 1:00 pm
Location: in-person @ Engine Seminar Room - FDA 3 (Accessibility Map)
About the conference
This conference brings together papers on bodies that have been censored, silenced, erased, and politically contested across languages, cultures, media, and historical periods. From state censorship to other forms of erasure, gendered, racialized, and queer bodies have long been banned, concealed, disciplined, and rendered silent by the institutions that govern cultural production: the church, the party, the publishing house, the archive, and the algorithm.
About the conference
This conference brings together papers on bodies that have been censored, silenced, erased, and politically contested across languages, cultures, media, and historical periods. From state censorship to other forms of erasure, gendered, racialized, and queer bodies have long been banned, concealed, disciplined, and rendered silent by the institutions that govern cultural production: the church, the party, the publishing house, the archive, and the algorithm.
This workshop will provide an overview on the customer discovery process and then delve deeper into how to conduct customer interviews and how to iterate on your business model canvas.
Date: Oct. 21st, 2026
Time: 12:00 - 1:00 pm
Location: in-person @ Engine Seminar Room - FDA 3 (Accessibility Map)
Understanding how economic growth occurs—and how societies can sustain it—has been central to the work of Canadian economist and 2025 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences laureate Peter Howitt, who will deliver the 2026 Beatty Lecture at McGill University on October 22 during the University’s annual Homecoming festivities. Nahlah Ayed, host of CBC’s national radio program Ideas, will moderate the event.