Dr. Marlene Epp, professor emeritus of history and peace and conflict studies at Conrad Grebel University College, will deliver our tenth annual CTMS Lecture, “Mennonites and the F-Word in the Era of Women’s Lib.” This lecture will explore the impact of second wave feminism on Mennonites, through news and opinions in the Mennonite press. As the United Nations declared 1975 to be International Women’s Year, Mennonites were polarized yet could hardly be immune to ‘women’s lib’ transforming their churches and households.

The lecture will be followed by a reception with refreshments.

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Marlene Epp is a Canadian historian whose scholarship focuses on Mennonite studies, immigrants and refugees, women and gender, the history of peace and nonviolence, and the history of food and culture. Her publications include Eating Like a Mennonite: Food and Community Across Borders (McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2024), Mennonite Women in Canada: A History (University of Manitoba Press, 2008), and Women Without Men: Mennonite Refugees of the Second World War (University of Toronto Press, 2000).