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2025 Friesen Lectures Series | Anabaptist Peace Witness - Historical Significance and Today's Mission (videos)
Thursday, January 23, 2025 @ 5:09 PM
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.
Read MoreWays of Knowing 1 Lecture Series | 'Hope and Resilience - Ways of Understanding Refugee Stories with Dr. Stephanie Stobbe (video)
Thursday, October 31, 2024 @ 5:32 PM
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.
Read More2024 J.J. Thiessen Lecture Series featuring (videos)
Thursday, October 24, 2024 @ 4:18 PM
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:
Read MoreWays of Knowing 1 Lecture Series | 'Science and Hope' with Dr. Candice Viddal (video)
Wednesday, October 2, 2024 @ 3:59 PM
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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.
Read MoreCMU welcomes Dr. Allyson Menzies as the 2024 Scientist in Residence
Tuesday, January 23, 2024 @ 3:49 PM
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?
Read MoreWays of Knowing 1 - CMU Community Lecture Series | Christy Anderson (video)
Thursday, November 23, 2023 @ 12:00 AM
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)
Friday, October 27, 2023 @ 7:21 PM
with Dr. Willie James Jennings
Associate Professor of Systematic Theology and Africana Studies, Yale Divinity School
Recorded October 27, 2023
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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
Read MoreAcclaimed Yale professor to speak at CMU lecture and symposium
Wednesday, October 11, 2023 @ 1:54 PM
Renowned scholar and theologian Dr. Willie James Jennings is in high demand across North America. On his schedule this month is a trip to Canadian Mennonite University (CMU), where he'll be delivering the 2023 J.J. Thiessen Lecture.
He will deliver his lecture, titled, "Gathering the pieces that remain: Weaving life together from the fragments of faith, race, and land" on Friday, October 27 at 7:00 PM in person at Marpeck Commons (2299 Grant Ave.) and via livestream.
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