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2025 Friesen Lectures Series | Anabaptist Peace Witness - Historical Significance and Today's Mission (videos)
2025 John and Margaret Friesen Lecture Series is a two-part installment titled, "Anabaptist Peace Witness – Historical Significance and Today's Mission," with Dr. Astrid von Schlachta, Head of the Mennonite Research Center and lecturer at the University of Regensburg. The lectures took place on Thursday, January 23, 2025 at CMU.
Upcoming lectures at CMU will highlight Anabaptist peace witness
"Why did Anabaptists and Mennonites take up arms all of a sudden? Where are the limits for Christians to participate in social developments? Where must the often very quiet voice of minorities not be silenced?" These are some of the questions Dr. Astrid von Schlachta, head of the Mennonite Research Center and lecturer at the University of Regensburg, Germany, will address at the 2025 John and Margaret Friesen Lectures.
Ways of Knowing 1 Lecture Series | 'Hope and Resilience - Ways of Understanding Refugee Stories with Dr. Stephanie Stobbe (video)
Lecture Title: Hope and Resilience - Ways of Understanding Refugee Stories
Dr. Stephanie Stobbe, Associate Professor of Conflict Resolution Studies
This is the second in a series of three lectures for CMU's 2024/25 first-year course, Ways of Knowing 1 (WK1). In this collaboratively taught course, students work with faculty in seminar settings, roundtable discussions, and public lectures to engage the central question chosen by faculty—what are people for? WK1 invites students into the heart of CMU, involving them in an interdisciplinary, cohort-based class that gets faculty and students thinking theologically together about an issue of current concern, across disciplinary edges.
2024 J.J. Thiessen Lecture Series featuring (videos)
Featuring Dr. Bruce Hindmarsh,
James M. Houston Professor of Spiritual Theology and Professor of the History of Christianity at Regent College, Vancouver, BC
These lectures explore the spiritual theology of early evangelicalism by looking at three questions that were of great importance to the movement in its origins:
Ways of Knowing 1 Lecture Series | 'Science and Hope' with Dr. Candice Viddal (video)
2024 John and Margaret Friesen Lectures - Revisiting the Mennonite Experience in Ukraine (2 videos)
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.
CMU welcomes Dr. Allyson Menzies as the 2024 Scientist in Residence
What is responsible environmental monitoring? How do STEM research and curricula unitingly participate in colonial practices that further degrade the spaces they seek to protect?
How can we dignify the past as we look to care for the future?
Ways of Knowing 1 - CMU Community Lecture Series | Christy Anderson (video)
Indigenous Worldviews: Being a Good Relative, Living Mino-Bimaadiziwin (a Good Life)
with Christy Anderson, Director of Indigenous Research at University of Manitoba
2023 J.J. Thiessen Lecture with Dr. Willie James Jennings (video)
with Dr. Willie James Jennings
Associate Professor of Systematic Theology and Africana Studies, Yale Divinity School
Recorded October 27, 2023
Ways of Knowing 1 - CMU Community Lecture Series | Dr. Paul Dyck (video)
Humanity's Poetic Vocation
with Dr. Paul Dyck, Professor of English
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