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Your Historical Training as Entrepreneurial Edge

HIST4916c

The Business of History

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January 8th Agenda

  1. Why Me
  2. My Aim for You
  3. What Do You Want Out of This Class

  4. What is the business of history, anyway?

    a. Demand (history as product)

    b. Action (history as verb)
  5. Assessment
  6. The Inevitable AI bit
  7. Moving Forward

Why Me

'What are you going to do with that degree, anyway?'

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Aims

The aim is to give you the time and space to explore the business of history, to imagine possible futures grounded in your historical training and interests. This, too, is public history.

My goal is for you to leave this class with some kind of plan or model so you can hit the ground running.

Who are you and what do you want out of this class?

What is the business of history, anyway?

Where is the demand for 'history'?

some public history MREs

History as product versus way of looking at the world

Assessment

  1. Environmental Scan (30%)
  2. Backgrounder / Lead Discussant (30%)
  3. Business Model (30%)
  4. Above and Beyond (10%) (leadership in the seminar, quality of the work, sophistication of questions for our guests, etc.)

The inevitable AI bit

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Ok, Who Will Do What, and When

Schedule

my favourite part: scheming

Next day

Consider your initial scheme in the context of 'Canadians and their Pasts' and other similar surveys. Where do you fit? Who else is in that space? God help us all: maybe it's worth spending some time trawling through LinkedIn?

Nuts and bolts stuff about running a business in Ontario/Quebec

The funding landscape

Maybe we'll try writing a funding application (or at least, a general summary for one).

Photo Credits

Upper Canada Village store - Happy Photo Guy, Flickr

Axe Throwing - Alexa M, Unsplash

'Want' - Christian Lue, Unsplash

Scheming Cherub - Chris Linnett, Unsplash