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...

Current Event

Convocation Hall, University of Winnipeg

“Eating Like a Mennonite” Book Launch

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

Current 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

Reflections on the Mennonite Heritage Cruises in Ukraine

For sixteen years (1995–2010), groups of Mennonite pilgrims assembled on a passenger ship on the...

Past Event

Poetry Reading and Dialogue with Di Brandt and Sarah Ens

Join us at for a poetry reading a dialogue with Di Brandt, author most recently...

Past Event

Room 2M73 Manitoba Hall, University of Winnipeg

Colloquium: “Do the Mennonites Pray to Another God?”

For the first History Colloquium of 2023, Visiting Scholar Nataliya Venger will give a talk...

Past Event

Room 1L12, Lockhart Hall, University of Winnipeg

Mexico Mennonites and Nostalgia for “Old” Canada

The final event in the “Leaving Canada” speaker series features Royden Loewen, former Chair in...

Past Event

Departing Canada, Encountering Latin America

Departing Canada, Encountering Latin America: Reflections on the Centenary of Mennonite Emigration from Canada to...

Past Event

Convocation Hall, University of Winnipeg