The Grand Philharmonic Choir and Conrad Grebel University College are honoured to welcome Sir James MacMillan, one of the world’s foremost living composers, as a visiting scholar and conductor. MacMillan’s music can be heard around the globe and he regularly conducts the world’s leading orchestras and choruses.
For the Colombian coastal community of Mampuján, displaced from their land by a paramilitary group in 2000, quilting has become a way of recovering their past in order to weave a better future.
Conrad Grebel University College at the University of Waterloo invites applications for a full-time definite-term faculty position in Practical Theology. The position relates primarily to the Master of Theological Studies (MTS) program. It entails teaching, supervising students in ministry settings, and coordinating the Applied Studies option of the MTS.
Dr. Marlene Epp, Professor of History and Peace and Conflict Studies at Conrad Grebel has been named interim dean at the College beginning January 4, 2016. Dr. Epp is a senior scholar with 15 years of service to Grebel, including serving as dean on two other occasions in the history of the College. As dean, her role is first and foremost to provide academic leadership to the College, with special emphasis on providing support for the many new academic hires at Grebel since 2011 (nine), and leading the search for a tenth hire in practical theology this winter term.
As the Syrian refugee crisis remains at the forefront of international news, Conrad Grebel University College is working on numerous refugee related initiatives. These tangible and educational responses are rooted in the Mennonite heritage of the College that includes refugee experiences and an impulse to respond to those in need.
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.
On Thursday, October 29, 2015, seventy people gathered in the Mennonite Savings and Credit Union Centre for Peace Advancement (CPA) to join Project Ploughshares (an affiliate member of the CPA) in celebrating the launch of Ernie Regehr’s book entitled, Disarming Conflict: Why Peace Cannot Be Won on the Battlefield.
Mennonite Church Eastern Canada (MCEC) and Conrad Grebel University College are pleased to announce the appointment of Matthew Bailey-Dick as Coordinator of the new Anabaptist Learning Workshop, a Church and Ministry certificate program of MCEC and Conrad Grebel. “I’m very excited about this program,” says Matthew Bailey-Dick, newly appointed Coordinator of the Anabaptist Learning Workshop (ALW).
The Alumni Committee of Conrad Grebel University College is pleased to announce the selection of John Wideman (BA 2009) as the 2015 recipient of the Distinguished Alumni Service Award.