The Canadian launch of Branch: A Memoir with Pictures by celebrated Anabaptist-Mennonite storyteller John L. Ruth, takes place at Conrad Grebel University College in Waterloo at 7:30 pm on November 28.
By Laureen Harder-Gissing
What was it like to be a conscientious objector during World War II? Did Mennonites participate in the War of 1812? Did Mennonite women contribute to World War I relief efforts? Do Mennonites celebrate Remembrance Day?
Sound in the Land 2014 will explore music and the environment while discovering new Mennonite perspectives. This event is a sequel to the highly successful Sound in the Lands 2009 which explored Mennonite music across borders and boundaries, and Sound in the Land 2004 which dealt with Mennonite musical diversities.
Conrad Grebel University College and Wilfrid Laurier University will welcome hundreds of visitors to Waterloo from across North America and as far away as Africa, Asia, Europe, South America and Japan as part of the 2013 Peace and Justice Studies Association (PJSA) Conference, October 17-19.
WATERLOO, ON --President Susan Schultz Huxman at Conrad Grebel 
University College and Executive Director of Project Ploughshares, John Siebert, are pleased to announce that the Ploughshares office will be moving back to Grebel in the Spring of 2014.
Conrad Grebel University College and Wilfrid Laurier University’s Department of Global Studies will welcome hundreds of visitors from North America and as far away as Africa, Asia, Europe, South America and Japan, as co-hosts of the 2013 Peace and Justice Studies Association (PJSA) Conference, October 17-19. The theme of this year’s conference is “Peace Studies between Tradition and Innovation.”
This school year marks Conrad Grebel University College’s 50th anniversary! As Grebel welcomed new students from coast to coast into residence and resumed teaching a variety of liberal arts courses at the University of Waterloo, the College community reflected on what has sustained the College in its first 50 years and what could be done to ensure another strong 50 years.
When your government calls on you to fight, what do you do? What if they won’t take no for an answer?
Sound in the Land 2014 – Music and the Environment – a Festival/Conference of Mennonites and music, June 5 – 8, 2014 at Conrad Grebel University College/UW, will explore ways of hearing the earth and listening to the environment. The third in a series of highly successful events, Sound in the Land 2014 will combine concerts – choral, vocal, chamber, orchestral, soundscape, multimedia, folk/jazz – with workshops, academic conference sessions, nature/sound walks, and singing, as we discover ecological understandings of music and sound, both locally and globally. As part of Grebel’s 50th Anniversary celebrations, this event brings together musicians, environmentalists, ethnomusicologists, writers and artists into fields of ‘creation care’ and ecomusicology, studying sound from an environmentally ethical basis, consistent with long-standing Mennonite values.