MHSBC Future Events
Important MHSBC Events planned for 2025
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500 Concert Tickets: Tickets are selling fast and you won't want to miss out, get your tickets today!
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General Admission: $35.00; MHSBC Member Price: $30.00.
Still time to sponsor this event, call us 604-853-6177 ext 203.
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Are you working on a Mennonite history project that needs financial support? Do you know someone who is? The Plett Foundation may be able to help!
Twice a year, the Plett Foundation awards grants to support research and publications. The next grant application deadline is March 15.
Research grants cover expenses like travel and accommodation for research trips. Publication grants may be used for the production of books, documentaries,
and exhibits. To qualify, projects must be related to the history of the Mennonites who migrated to Canada from Russia in the 1870s, their descendants,
or their ancestors.
For more information and to apply, visit our website.
Recent Grant Recipients:
Bruce Wiebe ($4,520) – For travel to Mexico to research Mennonite land purchases of 1921/1922 and to support the Gemeindearchive der Kolonie Manitoba, Mexico.
Abigail Carl-Klassen ($15,000) – For production, publication, and promotion of a book of vignettes drawn from her Rebels, Exiles, and Bridge Builders Oral History Project.
The Manitoba Mennonite Historical Society ($7,784) – For production and publication of the book Fürstenland: A Mennonite History, by Arnold Neufeldt-Fast.
Margaret Wiens ($1,500) – For research for the book Marsh Island, the history of a Mennonite family, by Margaret Wiens and Mary Wiens.
Pandora Press ($4,500) – For production and publication of three books in Pandora Press’s Anabaptist and Mennonite Studies series.
Chris Huebner ($4,443) – For travel to Amsterdam and two months’ accommodation in support of his “In the Book of Martyrs” research project.
Katherine Hill ($5,000) – For travel and accommodation for research and photography in Poland, Germany, Canada, the United States, and Mexico for her
book project “Lost and Living Pasts: Archives, Objects, and Images of Mennonite Belonging."
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Messages from Ben Nobbs-Thiessen Chair in Mennonite Studies & Co-director of CTMS at the Centre for Transnational Mennonite Studies at The University of Winnipeg
I'm pleased to share that the video recordings of our recent conference, "Subjects, Settlers, Citizens: The 1870s Mennonites in Historical Context," are now
available on our YouTube channel.
The conference was a stimulating two days, with twenty-three excellent presentations, a keynote address by Elder
Dave Scott, and a premiere screening of
Where the Cottonwoods Grow.
(You won't find the film on our YouTube channel, but see the website of the
Manitoba Mennonite Historical Society for further screenings .)
It's always good to see and interact with the large community of interested individuals who
come out for our Mennonite studies events!
Next year's conference, titled "Global Mennonites and the Justice System since 1525: Martyrs, Perpetrators, Enforcers, and Advocates," will be held October 3 and 4, 2025.
Stay tuned for more information about this and other happenings at CTMS!
— Ben Nobbs-Thiessen
Chair in Mennonite Studies & co-director of CTMS
Revisit Our Conference Schedule: Conference Schedule.
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