Join us for Grebel Student Council's production of "The Music Man" by Meredith Willson.
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Thursday, July 21, 2016
Award Winners "Welcome the Stranger"
The Alumni Committee of Conrad Grebel University College is pleased to announce the selection of Ted (BA Religious Studies ’90) and Darlene Enns Dyck (BA Social Development Studies ’92) as the 2016 recipients of the Distinguished Alumni Service Award.
Thursday, June 23, 2016
Starting with Students, the Peace Industry takes Root at Grebel
While exploring ideas of peace, war, nonviolence, conflict resolution, mediation, human rights, development, and social justice, Peace and Conflict Studies (PACS) students often wonder where their degree will lead after graduation. While many graduates gravitate toward careers in law, international development, governmental policy, and teaching, more and more students are embracing an entrepreneurial spirit and are creating their own jobs in the peace industry.
Tuesday, May 31, 2016
The Ripple Effect Education receives Hallman Grant
WATERLOO – The Ripple Effect Education (TREE) is a peace education initiative based out of the Frank and Helen Epp Peace Incubator in the MSCU Centre for Peace Advancement. Starting in the classroom, TREE aims to create peace-literate citizens with demonstrable conflict resolution skills and awareness of justice issues locally and globally. TREE programming will empower youth to think critically and evoke change in their communities. They will hone soft skills like communication, teamwork, and empathy.
The story of Canada’s conscientious Objectors of the Second World War.
Can Mennonite literature move beyond its longstanding preoccupation with cultural identity?
Join editor Robert Zacharias and contributors Hildi Froese Tiessen, Paul Tiessen, Julia Spicher Kasdorf, Ann Hostetler, Jeff Gundy, and Royden Loewen for an evening of conversation.
This exhibit explores story-telling through art by people now living in Iraqi Kurdistan as a result of displacement. Iraqi Kurdistan
(northern Iraq) hosts a diverse group of people brought together in a very small geographical area. This region is home to the Iraqi Kurds, Syrian Kurds, Yazidis, Assyrian Christians, and Iraqi Arabs who have offered their stories in this exhibit.
Thursday, November 19, 2015
Arvo Pärt @ 80 - two concert weekend
This weekend there will be 2 concerts featuring the music of Arvo Pärt to which you are invited. Pärt, the most often performed living composer in the world, celebrated his 80th birthday this fall. The concerts this weekend together celebrate the living legacy of this deeply spiritual and prolific composer.
Professor Troy Osborne speaks on
"The Bottle, the Dagger, and The Ring: Church Discipline and Dutch Mennonite Identity in the Seventeenth Century."
A piano trio comprised of Miriam Stewart-Kroeker on the cello, Marcus Scholtes on violin, and Heidi Wall on the piano will be performing the Shostakovich Trio No. 1 and the Tchaikovsky Piano Trio in A Minor.
