Keyword: History

2024 John and Margaret Friesen Lectures - Revisiting the Mennonite Experience in Ukraine (2 videos)

Tuesday, January 23, 2024 @ 5:32 PM

The 2024 Friesen Lectures are unified by a geographical context and dedicated to understanding the history of Mennonite communities in Ukraine. Addressing diverse themes from distant historical periods, Ukrainian professor Dr. Nataliya Venger provides listeners with the opportunity to immerse themselves once again in the unique world of Mennonite history in both a remote and more immediate historical perspective.

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CMU to offer timely course on Russian-Soviet history

Thursday, May 19, 2022 @ 10:32 AM

How do we contextualize conflicts and understand justifications for war? While this may be a loaded question with no easy answer, It is nonetheless important to ask when working towards reformative justice.

From ancient Greece to the Canadian West, CMU offers a variety of comprehensive courses to provide students with the necessary tools to discern and explain how ambiguous histories influence our current circumstances.

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Sunday@CMU: October 2020

Sunday, October 4, 2020 @ 12:00 AM

Theme: Stories from the Mennonite Heritage Archives

This month on Sunday@CMU, we are hearing from Conrad Stoesz. He will be sharing stories that have been preserved in documents and artifacts in the archives, which he also presents on his radio segment, Still Speaking. Conrad is the archivist at the Mennonite Heritage Archives, affiliated with CMU, where he has worked since 1999. He is also an alumnus of Canadian Mennonite Bible College, one of CMU's predecessor colleges.

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Announcing the 2020 John and Margaret Friesen Lectures: What if Mennonites Had Never Left the Netherlands?

Tuesday, March 3, 2020 @ 3:53 PM

What if the 16th-century Dutch and North-German ancestors of so many North American Mennonites had decided not to flee their homes? What if they had not scattered, and not been variously shaped by atrocities like those of tsarist Russian tyranny, communist revolution, or Nazi war? What would Mennonites be like today if they had never left the Netherlands?

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Sunday@CMU: February 2019

Friday, February 1, 2019 @ 12:00 AM

Theme: Anabaptism
Speaker: John J. Friesen

Dr. John J. Friesen, Professor Emeritus of History and Theology, presents a four-part sermon series exploring Anabaptism.

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Faculty: In Their Own Words – Dr. Brian Froese

Sunday, April 15, 2018 @ 12:00 AM

"I often say I became a historian because the job of rock star had been taken, and this was the next best thing," quips Dr. Brian Froese, Associate Professor of History. He has taught at CMU since 2006.

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