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Grebel is home to an enthusiastic residence community on the campus of the University of Waterloo. Join this friendly community of people who are dedicated to making Grebel an amazing place to live and grow. Meet some of Grebels current students. Take an in-person or virtual tour. Discover leadership opportunities. Apply now to live in the residence.
Academics
Study with and get to know professors in a community-oriented learning environment. Grebel teaches within the Arts faculty at the University of Waterloo, administering the Music and Peace and Conflict Studies departments at Waterloo, and offering additional undergraduate courses in Arts, History, Mennonite Studies, Religious Studies, and Sociology. Grebel also offers two masters level graduate programs in Theological Studies and Peace and Conflict Studies.
News
Discovering and Exploring Spirituality – Brother Willian Ng (BES 1988)
Brother William is a Franciscan friar with more than 30 years of service to the order. He loves combining aspects of creativity into his work and uses music to uplift his spiritual talks while engaging participants to use artmaking as praying. He studied Urban Planning at the University of Waterloo before going on to study Landscape Architecture at Edinburgh University and Religion and the Arts at Yale Divinity School
A Decade of Balinese Music – 10th Anniversary of the Gamelan Ensemble at Grebel
“Hear with the ears, feel with the body,” said I Dewa Made Suparta, Artist-in-Residence of Balinese music and performing arts at Conrad Grebel University College. “You must use your eyes, your brain, and your heart. You must feel your surrounding players. If each player does not connect with the beat, the music cannot breathe together.” As Artistic Director of Grebel’s Balinese Percussion Ensemble course and Community Gamelan Warga Santi, Dewa is preparing for the 10th anniversary concert at the end of the term. The concert is a celebration of a unique branch of music that has flourished and grown within Grebel’s music community.
A Collection of Mennonite Literature - "On Mennonite/s Writing" by Hildi Froese Tiessen
Over the past fifty years, Conrad Grebel University College Professor Emerita Hildi Froese Tiessen has been a champion of Mennonite literature. She has authored over eighty contributions to the field of Mennonite writing, including over sixty essays and book chapters, more than a dozen edited collections of special issues of journals, and a host of scholarly introductions, reviews, and encyclopedia articles. Her book, "On Mennonite/s Writing", is her first collection of work, consisting of eighteen essays that detail her encounters with Mennonite literature across Canada and the United States, nuanced close readings of major literary figures, and late career reflections on the changing nature of the field itself.
Events
Book Launch: On Mennonite/s Writing
Celebrate the launch of Hildi Froese Tiessen's new book On Mennonite/s Writing, collecting 18 essays that reflect a half-century of critical engagement in Mennonite writing.
Grebel's Convocation Celebration 2024
Save the date for Grebel's Convocation Celebrations for 2024.
Alumni Beers and Bites 2024
Enjoy Craft Beer, great food, and good company while mingling with fellow alumni. An alumni favourite!