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Faculty publications and presentations

Conrad Grebel University College

Publications of Faculty and Academic Personnel

May 2022 to April 2023


2022-23 publications and presentations list (PDF)


I. Publications

a) Books and Booklets – Authored and Edited

Alicia Batten

  • Editor, Review of Biblical Literature. Atlanta: SBL Press, 2022.

Nathan Funk

  • Abdul Aziz Said: A Pioneer in Peace, Intercultural Dialogue, and Cooperative Global Politics, co-edited with Meena Sharify-Funk, Springer, 2022.

Carol Penner

  • Resistance: Violence, Abuse and Power in Peace Churches. Edited by Cameron Altaras and Carol Penner. Elkhart, IN: Institute of Mennonite Studies, 2022.
     

b) Chapters in Books

Alicia Batten

  • “Early Anabaptists and the Pauline Tradition,” in Reformatorische Paulusauslegungen, edited by Stefan Krauter and Manuel Nägele, 383-98. History of Biblical Exegesis 5. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2023.
  • “James the Dramatist,” in Who Was James? Essays on the Letter’s Authorship and Provenance, edited by Eve-Marie Becker, Sigurvin Lárus Jónssen, and Susanne Luther, 313-30. WUNT 1/485. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2022.
  • “Dressing for Deities: Functions and Meanings of Dress within Ancient Associations,” in Associations, Deities, and Early Christianity, edited by Bruce Longenecker, 85-100. Waco, TX: Baylor University Press, 2022.
  • Atlanta: SBL Press, 2021.  

Jeremy Bergen

  • “Problem or Promise?  Confessional Martyrs and Mennonite–Roman Catholic Relations,” reprinted in Bridgefolk: An Anthology of the Mennonite-Catholic Theological Colloquium, ed. Gerald V. Schlabach, 520-556. Pandora Press: Thunder Bay, ON, 2022). (Republication of article originally peer-reviewed and published in the Journal of Ecumenical Studies and reprinted. Peter Erb, ed., Martyrdom in Ecumenical Perspective, [2007]).

David Neufeld

  • “‘As Far as the Records Dictate’: Archival Logics in Anabaptist Source Collections,” in Thinking Outside the Cages: New Directions in the Radical Reformation, Studies in Central European History. 265-290. Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2023.

Reina Neufeldt

  • “We need to work in a different way.” In Wicked Problems: The Ethics of Action for Peace, Rights and Justice. Edited by Ernesto Verdeja, Austin Choi Fitzpatrick and Douglas Irvin-Erickson, 133-143. New York: Oxford University Press. 2022.

Troy Osborne

  • “Whether to Turn to the ‘Strong Hand’ of the State: The Role of the State in Dutch Mennonite Conflict Resolution.” In A Pilgrimage of Justice and Peace: Global Mennonite Perspectives on Peacebuilding and Nonviolence, edited by Fernando Enns, Nina Schroeder-van ’t Schip, and Andrés Pacheco-Lozano, 254–65. Eugene, Oregon: Pickwick Publications, 2023.

Derek Suderman

  • “Justice, Mercy, and Faithfulness: Human Rights and Mennonite Faith in the Context of Peacebuilding Practice,” co-written with Lowell Ewert and Mary Lou Klassen, in A Pilgrimage of Justice and Peace: Global Mennonite Perspectives on Peacebuilding and Nonviolence. Edited by Fernando Enns, Nina Schroeder-van ‘t Schip, Andrés Pacheco-Lozano, 70-86. Eugene, Oregon: Pickwick Publications, 2023.
     

c) Articles in Peer-Reviewed/Scholarly Journals

Alicia Batten

  • Revision to “Clothing,” with Antonios Finitsis.  Oxford Bibliographies in Biblical Studies. Ed. Christopher Matthews. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2023.

Jeremy Bergen

Jane Kuepfer

Eric Lepp

  • “Civil Sanctuary: Clearly Marked Spaces of Civility in Divided Urban Settings,” Journal of Intervention and Statebuilding, 2022.  DOI: 10.1080/17502977.2022.2079341.
  • “Side-by-Sidedness: A Conceptual Rethinking of Post-Peace Agreement Encounter,” Journal of Intercultural Studies, 2023.  DOI: 10.1080/07256868.2023.2166027.
  • Your wall cannot divide us: Graffiti in Cyprus” and insights into conflict-affected landscapes with Haworth, B., Arthur, C., & Vogel, B. SAUC - Street Art and Urban Creativity, 8(2), 35 - 49. 2022.  

Johonna McCants-Turner

 d) Other Publications

Alicia Batten

  • Book endorsement for Richard Ascough, ed., Christ Groups and Associations. Waco: Baylor University Press, 2022.

Jeremy Bergen

Johonna McCants-Turner

Reina Neufeldt

  • “Rationality”. Contribution in article titled “Conscientious.” Canadian Mennonite, January 30, 2023: 21-22.

Carol Penner

  • “Invitation to Freedom: A Lenten Practice” Canadian Mennonite 26, 27:5 (Mar 8, 2023), 4-6.
  • “Rejoice Devotionals” Rejoice 58:2 MennoMedia (Dec Jan Feb 2022-23), February 27-28 and Rejoice 59:1 MennoMedia (Mar Apr May 2023), March 1-5, April 16.
  • “Counterpoint: Sinful teachers should find other ways to serve God” Canadian Mennonite 26:17 (August 22, 2022).

Karen Sunabacka

  • Excerpts from “Never to Return” (2013), and additional sound for “Arcons,” a student short-film by Kristina (Tia) Salchenberger, Emily Carr University of Art + Design, 2022-23.
     

e) Music Compositions

Karen Sunabacka

  • “An Emptiness in Me,” for clarinet and bass marimba. Commissioned by Vidarneisti, (Cathy Wood – Clarinet & Victoria Sparks – Percussion) and Prairie Debut. Completed May 16, 2023.

Arrangements

  • “Perichoresis,” for flute, oboe and cello (2023). (Original was for flute, viola, and cello and premiered in 2004).
  • “English Horn Concerto in Memory of Beverly Clouston,” originally for full orchestra, arranged/reduced for piano and solo English Horn) (2019)

Pieces edited and uploaded to CMC for distribution:
 

  • “Crazing,” for five violoncelli (2003).
  • “Vie & Quell,” for string quartet (2001).
  • “Wandering,” for solo bass clarinet (2020).
  • “…our inner lives were entwined…,” for solo piano (2021).
  • “Gloria,” for SATB choir (2020).
  • “Family Sons and Dotters,” (1998).
  • “English Horn Concerto in Memory of Beverly Clouston,” for orchestra and solo English Horn (2019).
  • “English Horn Concerto in Memory of Beverly Clouston,” arranged for piano and solo English Horn (2019).
  • “Across the Grasslands,” (2016).
  • “The Prairies,” for orchestra (2017).
     

II. Presentations

a) Peer-reviewed Scholarly Presentations

Alicia Batten

  • “Dress and Ethnicity.” Presentation for Ethnicity and Ethnic Constructs Workshop, Classical Studies Department, University of Waterloo, April 27, 2023. Invited.
  • Review of Jennifer A. Quigley, Divine Accounting: Theo-Economics in Early Christianity (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2021), SBL Annual Meeting, Denver, CO, November 2022.
  • Response to “The Representation of Mission in the Acts of the Apostles.” Society for the Study of the New Testament Annual Meeting, Leuven, Belgium July 2022.

Jeremy Bergen

  • “Christian Martyrdom, Cultural Trauma, and Conspiracies of Silence,” Canadian Theological Society annual meetings (virtual), May 24, 2022.
  • “Mennonite Dispossession of Indigenous Lands as a Crisis for Mennonite Identity,” Indigenous-Mennonite Encounters conference, Conrad Grebel University College, May 14, 2022.

Nathan Funk

  • “Peace Professionalism: Frameworks for Pedagogy, Training, and Assessment,” co-authored with Philip Onguny, paper presented the annual convention of the International Studies Association, Montreal, Quebec, March 17, 2023.
  • “A Transformative Approach to International Relations: Abdul Aziz Said’s Contributions to Peace Studies,” paper presented at the annual conference of the Peace and Justice Studies Association (PJSA), Alliance, Ohio, October 14, 2022.
  • Contributor to the roundtable, “Networking and Social Change: Platforms for Advocacy and Peacebuilding,” at the annual conference of the Peace and Justice Studies Association (PJSA), Alliance, Ohio, October 14, 2022.

Jane Kuepfer

  • Co-creating Supportive Spiritual Community in Retirement. Pre-recorded presentation. Walk with Me Conference, May 2022.

Naren Kumarakulasingam

  • “Recording Collateral Damage, Encountering Colonial Detritus,” at panel entitled, Epistemologies of Domination - Epistemologies of (Colonial) Encounters, Annual Meeting of the International Studies Association, Montreal, Ontario, March 15, 2023.
  • “Bemused by Struggle: Our Work to Cry, Yours to Listen,” at panel entitled, Vernacular Reworkings of Struggle and Dissent, Annual Meeting of the International Studies Association, Montreal, Ontario, March 16, 2023.

Johonna McCants-Turner

  • “‘Love with Accountability’: The Love Ethic as Moral Compass within Liberatory Anti-Violence Movements,” as part of the panel, “Teaching, Theory and Activism Inspired by the Late bell hooks.” Justice Studies Association Annual Meeting. June 2, 2022.
  • “’I Hope We Choose Love’: The Love Ethic in Liberatory Anti-Violence Movements,” as a part of panel, “Faith, Hope, and Love as Embodied Disciplines and Practices within Liberatory Antiviolence Movements,” Canadian Theological Society Annual Meeting, May 24, 2022.

David Neufeld

  • “Archiving Anabaptist Error: Officers, Information Management, and the Project to Rid Zurich of Dissent,” Sixteenth Century Studies Conference, Minneapolis, Minnesota, October 27-30, 2022.
  • “Blameless People Among the Wicked: Distinguishing Anabaptist from Reformed in Rural Switzerland,” Renaissance Society of America, San Juan, Puerto Rico, March 9-11, 2023.

Reina Neufeldt

  • “Civil Society and Peacebuilding: Emancipation, Domination and the Difficult Spaces Between,” paper presented at the International Studies Association Convention, March 16, 2023.

Kate Steiner

  • "Teaching in Tropes: Ornaments in W1" International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, May 10, 2023.
  • "The Mass According to W1: Tropes at St Andrews," North American Academy of Liturgy, January 2023.
 

b) Other Scholarly Presentations

Jeremy Bergen

  • “How Does a Tradition Repent?” invited plenary presentation, Bridgefolk (Mennonite-Catholic) conference, St. John’s Abbey, Collegeville, Minnesota, July 22, 2022.
  • “The Papal Apology and Scheduled Visit to Canada,” invited roundtable discussion contributor, Canadian Theological Society, annual meetings, May 26, 2022. (Virtual.)

Paul Heidebrecht

  • “Incubating and Funding PeaceTech.” panel presentation with Anamitra Deb, Betsy Hoover, and Sheldon Himelfarb at the “Designing Tech for Social Cohesion” conference in San Francisco, California, February 24, 2023.
  • “Engineering and the Arts.” Faculty Forum at Conrad Grebel University College, Waterloo, Ontario, February 17, 2023.
  • “Engineering Peace?” University Colloquium, Eastern Mennonite University, Harrisonburg, Virgina, January 18, 2023.

Reina Neufeldt

  • “Mennonites as Implicated Subjects in Treaty 1 Territory,” at the Indigenous Mennonite Encounters in Time and Space gathering and conference, Conrad Grebel University College, Waterloo, Ontario, May 13, 2022.
 

c) Academic Guest Lectures/Workshops

Naren Kumarakulasingam

  • Discussant at Workshop on Colonial Violence for MA student papers from the University of Hyderabad, India, May 5-6, 2023. (Virtual).

Johonna McCants-Turner

  • “Choosing Love in the Wake of Wounding,” invited lecturer to the Canadian School of Peacebuilding Lecture Series, Canadian Mennonite University, June 16, 2022.

Kate Steiner

  • "Music, Liturgy, and the Making of Medieval Scotland," Eby Lecture, Conrad Grebel University College, November 24, 2022.

Derek Suderman

  • Workshop (3 hrs.), “The Gospel According to Jesus,” annual MCEC Church Planters gathering (also simultaneously translated into French), 80+ participants, October 14, 2022.

Karen Sunabacka

  • “Composing Louis Riel’s Dream,” composition Seminar at the University of Manitoba, Desautels Faculty of Music, March 1, 2023.

Mark Vuorinen

  • “Conducting,”, conducting Masterclass for Masters and Doctoral Students, Faculty of Music, University of Toronto, March 8, 2023.
 

d) Music Performances

Karen Sunabacka

  • “The Place Where the Creator Rests,” text by Joyce Clouston, performed (PREMIERED) by the Andromeda Trio and Karen Sunabacka, Indigenous Mennonite Encounters Conference, May 14, 2022.
  • “Surely I know the Spring that Swiftly Flows,” (2001) for baritone and string quartet, PREMIERED by BIPOC voices ensemble with Henry Chen, Baritone and Rich Coburn, music director. Imaginarium IV: BIPOC Voices – A joint session of re:Naissance Opera’s IndieFest and the Association for Opera in Canada’s Opera Summit. Vancouver Playhouse. November 23, 2022.

“Curlicue” Album Release Events:

  • Grebel Noon Hour Concert, Darryl Friesen, piano with Karen Sunabacka speaking. Conrad Grebel University College, Waterloo, Ontario, September 21, 2022.
  • Album release party in Waterloo - Darryl Friesen with Karen Sunabacka speaking, at Conrad Grebel University College, Waterloo, Ontario, September 23, 2022.
  • Album release party – Darryl Friesen, piano with Karen Sunabacka speaking. Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg, Manitoba, September 29, 2022.
  • Midday Recital – Darryl Friesen, piano, with Karen Sunabacka (virtual due to COVID), at the University of Manitoba.

Composition Performances by Ensembles near and far:
 

  • “Crazing," for 5 Violoncelli, performed at a concert during Orchestra de la Francophonie’s Chamber Music Academy, Montreal (July 4-29, 2022), July 21, 2022.
  • “Vie & Quell,” for string quartet, performed at the last concert during Orchestra de la Francophonie’s Chamber Music Academy, Montreal (July 4-29, 2022) , July 29, 2022.
  • “The Place Where the Creator Rests,” for Piano Trio and spoken voices & The Duke’s Arch for piano trio, The Andromeda Trio and I performing at Music Mondays series at the Church of the Holy Trinity, Toronto on August 1, 2022.
  • “Mama’s Painting: Louis Riel’s Dream,” for piano quartet and narrator, performed by the Janus Quartet with narrator Anna Gawboy, Columbus Ohio, October 23 & 29, 2022.
  • “Sarabande,” for solo cello, performed during a Polycoro Concert by David Liam, cello, in Winnipeg, Manitoba, November 12, 2022.
  • “Surely I know the spring that swiftly flows for voice (baritone) and string quartet, presented (and recorded) by BIPOC voices at a joint session of re:Naissance Opera’s IndieFest and the Association for Opera in Canada’s Opera Summit on November 23, 2022 in Vancouver.
  • “Perichoresis,” for flute, oboe and cello, performed during a Virtuosi Concerts concert, Winnipeg, Manitoba, January 15, 2023.
  • “Never to Return,” for string orchestra, performed by Sinfonia Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, January 20, 2023.
  • “Never to Return,” for string orchestra, performed by Protestra, New York, New York, February 5, 2023.
  • “Never to Return,” for string orchestra, performed by the Manitoba Chamber Orchestra, Winnipeg, Manitoba, March 2, 2023.
  • “Born by the River,” for string orchestra, performed by Symphony Nova Scotia, Halifax, Nova Scotia, March 2, 2023.
  • “Born by the River,” for string orchestra, recorded by CBC and presented on Sunday March 12, 2023.
  • “Never to Return,” for string orchestra, performed by the Ottawa Symphony, Ottawa, Ontario, March 5, 2023.
  • “Born by the River,” for string orchestra, performed by Sinfonia Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, April 14, 2023.

Mark Vuorinen

Commissioned Premieres:

  • “Stick to Love,” (Aaron Manswell, composer), Grand Philharmonic Choir, May 28, 2022.
  • “voice of the weaver,” (Peter Togni, composer), Elora Festival, July 17, 2022.
  • “River Woman,” (Melody McKiver, composer), Elora Festival, July 22, 2022.
  • “Dust to Dusk,” (Annika Socolofsky, composer), Elora Festival, July 22, 2022.
  • “Domino, Domino, Domino,” (Carmen Braden, composer), Elora Festival, July 22, 2022.
  • “On Love,” (Timothy Corlis, composer), Elora Festival, July 24, 2022.

Other Major Performances:
 

  • “Considering Matthew Shepard,” (Craig Hella Johnson, composer) The Elora Singers, Guelph and
  • Burlington, September 23 & October 15, 2022.
  • “Elijah,” (Mendelssohn, composer), Grand Philharmonic Choir & KW Symphony, October 22, 2022.
  • “Requiem, “ (Maurice Duruflé, composer), Grand Philharmonic Chamber Singers, Nov 12, 2022.
  • “Messiah,” (Handel, composer), The Elora Singers, Fergus, December 4, 2022.
  • “Festival of Carols,” (various), The Elora Singers, Elora, December 12 & 13, 2022.
  • “Baroque Meditations,” (Handel, Steffani & Vivaldi), The Elora Singers, Kitchener, March 5, 2023.
  • “Passio,” (Arvo Pärt, composer), The Elora Singers, Guelph, April 2, 2023.
  • “Mass in B minor,” (JS Bach, composer), Grand Philharmonic Choir, Kitchener, April 7, 2023.
     

e) Media Presentations or Interviews

Alicia Batten

  • Provided consultative services for Canada Post (for their nativity stamps for multiple years) – 3 consultations in total, 2022-23.

Jeremy Bergen

  • Interviewed by Phil Johnson, AM 1150 Kelowna BC radio, about Pope Francis’s apology in Canada, 10 minutes, July 28, 2022.
  • Interviewed by Chelsea Bird and Daryl McIntyre, 630 CHED Edmonton radio, about Pope Francis’s apology in Canada, 10 minutes, July 27, 2022.
  • Interviewed by Sue Deyell and Andy Schultz, 770 CHQR Calgary radio, about Pope Francis’s apology in Canada, 10 minutes, July 27, 2022. 
  • Interviewed by Mike Smyth, CKNW AM-980 Vancouver radio, about Pope Francis’s apology in Canada, 6 minutes, July 26, 2022.
  • Interviewed by Mike Farwell, 570 CityNews Kitchener radio, about Pope Francis’s apology in Canada, 10 minutes, July 26, 2022.
  • Interviewed for a CBC online news story by Karen Pauls, “The Pope's apology was a start. Now the real work begins, some Catholics and Indigenous leaders say,” published July 26, 2022.
  • Interviewed by Michelle Song, for inclusion in CBC national TV and radio news stories by Karen Pauls, July 25, 2022.   
  • Interviewed by Holly Meyer, Associated Press, for the story “Pope apologizes for ‘catastrophic’ school policy in Canada,” published July 25, 2022. Reprinted by ABC News, CBS News, and others.
  • Interviewed by Holly Meyer, Associated Press, for the story “Church apologies: Top leaders say sorry for historical sins,” published July 24, 2022. Reprinted by The Washington Post and others.

Nathan Funk

  • Interview for Peace Magazine’s “Project Save the World” on the subject of religion and peacebuilding. Peace Magazine is a Canadian periodical that produces print as well as web content.

Jane Kuepfer

  • Interview with Stuart Foxman of Renaissance Magazine on the role of spirituality in wellness in retirement, (Retired Teachers of Ontario), April 3, 2023.

Carol Penner

  • Interview for the podcast “Armchair Anabaptist,” and featured in five of their episodes in 2023.

Derek Suderman

  • Contributor, “Rage: Why are Canadians Angry?” Context Beyond the Headlines (Crossroads TV), host Maggie John, November 1, 2022.  
  • Contributor, “Turn the Other Cheek.” On “IDEAS,” CBC Radio, producer Sean Foley, April 28, 2023.
 

f) Other Presentations

Alicia Batten

  • Presentation of research on the Letter of James to the MTS brown bag lunch, January 2023.

Eric Lepp

  • Invited Workshop Facilitator, Peacebuilding 101, Peace Innovators Program, The Ripple Effect Education (TREE) – Waterloo, Ontario, August 9, 2022.
  • Curator, Gallery Exhibit, “Your wall can(not) divide us,” an exhibition by the International Consortium for Conflict Graffiti, Grebel Gallery – Centre for Peace Advancement, Conrad Grebel University College, Waterloo, Ontario, February – June 2023.
  • “Your wall can(not) divide us,” gallery tour host and guest lecturer invited by Grit Liebscher, Department of Communication Arts, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, March 23, 2023.

Johonna McCants-Turner

  • Invited symposium speaker, “Black and Free Art Exhibition & Symposium”, Ken Seiling, symposium presented and convened by Canada Research Chair in Race, Gender and Performance, Dr. Naila Keleta-Mae. Waterloo Regional Museum, Waterloo, Ontario. March 25-26, 2023.

David Neufeld

  • Contribution to faculty roundtable, “Old Books Made New: The Surprising Wisdom of Erasmus for Today,” symposium sponsored by Marpeck Deans’ Fund, November 5, 2022.

Carol Penner

  • Panel talk in Conrad Grebel University College, Chapel, Waterloo, Ontario, March 8, 2023.

Seminars:

  • “How to write a prayer” A Seminar at Ontario Mennonite Music Camp, August 18, 2022.
  • “Writing Prayers for the Community” A Workshop for the Grebel Chapel Committee, February 1, 2023.

Kate Steiner

  • "Music, Liturgy, and the Making of Medieval Scotland," Virtual Medieval Liturgy Symposium, October 19, 2022.
  • "The Thirteenth-Century Insular Daily Lady Mass: Repertory, Source, and Transmission," Virtual Medieval Liturgy Symposium, January 23, 2023.
  • "Malveisin, Bishop of the Scots," Virtual Medieval Liturgy Symposium, April 19, 2023.

Karen Sunabacka

  • “The artists will renew our spirits:” Music and conversation with Dr. Karen Sunabacka, W3+ lunchtime event as part of W3+’s year-long investigation of “radical care”. February 16, 2023.