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?
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Refugee exhibition curated by CMU professor arrives in Manitoba
A travelling exhibition called, Hearts of Freedom: Stories of Southeast Asian Refugees, is being showcased in the Manitoba Museum's Festival Hall from January 5 until April 7.
Dr. Stephanie Phetsamay Stobbe, Associate Professor and Chair of Conflict Resolution Studies at Canadian Mennonite University, curated the exhibition. It is the product of a larger Hearts of Freedom research project, which Stobbe worked on with four other researchers, beginning in 2018.
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Sunday@CMU: January 2024
Our Human Place in Creation
This month on Sunday@CMU, we're hearing from Dr. Rachel Krause, Associate Professor of Biology at CMU. Rachel teaches courses like ecology and global health. In this rebroadcast of her series of meditations, she explores our human place in nature and God's desire for how God's creation should live together.
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CMU faculty, students, alumnus thrilled to participate in Indigenous opera premiere
Li Keur: Riel's Heart of the North premiered last month in a rush of vibrant colour, rich story, and lively music and dance. The production, performed by Manitoba Opera, sold out each of its three performances at the Centennial Concert Hall in Winnipeg on November 18, 22, and 24.
Li Keur is the first full-scale Indigenous-led opera to be presented on a Canadian mainstage. "I wish to place the beautiful Indigenous languages, cultures, and narratives of the central continent—those that have been relegated to a historical footnote at best, a nuisance or a threat at worst—to their rightful place at the heart of cultural institutions of the region," said Métis poet and scholar Dr. Suzanne Steele.
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Cross-continental research: CMU business faculty dive into UK economics
Two Canadian Mennonite University (CMU) faculty hopped the pond this past summer, not just to see the English countryside, visit Buckingham Palace, or catch a football game. They were there strictly for work purposes and to pursue extended research in their fields. Well, maybe also to see a little bit of countryside.
Jerry Buckland, Professor of International Development Studies and Craig Martin, Assistant Professor of Business may not have been in the UK for the same project, but their economic back (IDS) grounds mean both will bring back a wealth of valuable reports and material that will help sustain CMU's business and IDS studies.
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