Events - Centre for Transnational Mennonite Studies

Highlighting the Transnational nature of Mennonite society.

CTMS hosts a number of events featuring scholars from around the world. Annual events include the CTMS lecture and the Chair in Mennonite Studies's multi-day conference (typically held in the fall), as well as regular thematic events and roundtables. Explore our upcoming and past events below.

Subjects, Settlers, Citizens: The 1870s Mennonites in Historical Context

A Conference Hosted by the Centre for Transnational Mennonite Studies at The University of Winnipeg...

Past Event

Convocation Hall, University of Winnipeg

Mennonites Meet Their New Neighbours

For our second webinar on the sesquicentennial of Mennonite settlement in Manitoba, we are joined...

Past Event

What Happened at Fort Dufferin?

For our first webinar to mark the sesquicentennial of Mennonite settlement in Manitoba, we are...

Past Event

“On Stony Ground” Book Launch at Mennonite Heritage Village

We invite you to join us at Mennonite Heritage Village in Steinbach (231 Highway 12N)...

Past Event

Mennonite Heritage Village

“On Stony Ground” Virtual Book Launch

We invite you to join us to celebrate the launch of anthropologist and historian James...

Past Event

From Occupation to Sanctuary: The Faith Politics of Latinx Freedom Movements, 1960s–1980s

We invite you to join us for the eighth annual CTMS Lecture, by Dr. Felipe...

Past Event

University of Winnipeg Club

“Eating Like a Mennonite” Book Launch

Mennonites are often associated with food, both by outsiders and by Mennonites themselves. Yet since...

Past Event

McNally Robinson Winnipeg, Grant Park

Russlaender 100 Report at Darp Days

CTMS co-director Aileen Friesen will give a presentation on this summer’s cross-Canada Memories of Migration:...

Past Event

Neubergthal Commons

The Russlaender Mennonites: War, Dislocation, and New Beginnings

A Conference Hosted by the Centre for Transnational Mennonite Studies at The University of Winnipeg...

Past Event

Convocation Hall, University of Winnipeg

Russlaender 100 Ontario Events Preview

In July 2023, the Mennonite Historical Society of Canada will commemorate the 1920s immigration of...

Past Event

“Very Peaceful Citizens”: Mennonites Establishing Settler Colonialism in 1870s Manitoba

For the Seventh Annual CTMS Lecture, Dr. Shelisa Klassen, 2022–2023 D. F. Plett Historical Research...

Past Event

University of Winnipeg Club

Russlaender 100 Manitoba Events Preview

In July 2023, the Mennonite Historical Society of Canada will be commemorating the 1920s migration...

Past Event