Keyword: Paul Dyck

Step inside CMU’s special collections room

Monday, July 29, 2024 @ 3:35 PM

Step inside the doors of Canadian Mennonite University's (CMU) library, and you'll find yourself at the institution's heart. Each shelf holds stories of the past, present, and future, ready to be explored. The CMU library is more than just a resource; it's a place where curiosity thrives and community bonds are strengthened.

Over 135,000 items are in CMU's collection, but a significantly smaller subset sits in the special collections room. It's a place where Professor of English Paul Dyck says the utility and value of printed books will remain eternal.

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Ways of Knowing 1 - CMU Community Lecture Series | Dr. Paul Dyck (video)

Thursday, October 26, 2023 @ 1:00 PM

Humanity's Poetic Vocation

with Dr. Paul Dyck, Professor of English

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Sunday@CMU: September 2022

Sunday, September 11, 2022 @ 12:00 AM

Theme: The Question of Christian Politics

This month on Sunday@CMU, we are hearing from Paul Dyck, professor of English and academic dean at CMU. Throughout this rebroadcast of his meditation series, Paul explores Christianity and politics. Going beyond partisan politics, he examines God's coming kingdom and Christ's call to love.

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Alumnus explores the relationship between art and commerce in daring new novel

Monday, August 22, 2022 @ 4:11 PM

In 2017, André Forget was asked by friend and collaborator Joel Peters (CMU, 2011) to write a short story about a fictitious underwater organ. The only rule was to keep the story around 2,000 words. Forget ended up writing a 10,000-word academic dissertation about the mythical instrument, which he named the hydroöganon. Complete with invented scholars debating each other's theses and extensive details as to the engineering of the instrument, the story, originally titled The Lower Registers, served as the impetus for writing his debut novel In the City of Pigs, published by Dundurn Press in the summer of 2022.

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Sunday@CMU: March 2022

Thursday, March 10, 2022 @ 12:00 AM

Theme: The Question of Christian Politics

This month on Sunday@CMU, we're hearing from CMU faculty Paul Dyck, Professor of English, Interim Vice President Academic, and Academic Dean. In this series of meditations, Paul explores Christianity and politics. Going beyond partisan politics, he examines the system in which we live together, God's coming kingdom, and Christ's call to love.

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The heart of the matter

Thursday, November 21, 2019 @ 3:18 PM

War-zone reporter and novelist turned climate researcher J. M. Ledgard recently told the New Yorker that, faced with a mess like the one humanity has made, "the only possible thing to do, is to go in an imaginative direction. Imagination at scale is our only recourse."1

I recently sat down with five CMU faculty, and the same conviction stood out. It began with Neil Weisensel, Instructor of Music Theory and Composition.

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