Anabaptist Mennonite Scholars Network

About the AMSN

The Anabaptist Mennonite emphasis on dialogue between scholars of different disciplines and between scholars and the broader ecclesial community is at the heart of the Anabaptist Mennonite Scholars Network (AMSN). The AMSN responds to the need for increasing communication around conference planning, special journal issues, and related items with a view not only to facilitating greater awareness and cooperation but also, and significantly, to expanding the conversation. In a very modest way, the AMSN seeks to nurture the conditions whereby we can break out of disciplinary, institutional, gendered, and geographic siloes that too often narrow our vision by fostering cross-disciplinary connections that intentionally include marginalized voices from across the street and around the world.

An email newsletter with recently added and upcoming news and events will be sent out roughly 3–4 times annually. If you are not already on our mailing list, we invite you to sign up at the bottom of this page. We are always looking to add information of relevance to the Anabaptist Mennonite scholarly world around the globe so if there are events and/or other items you are aware of, please let us know either by sending us an email or clicking the "submit news and events" button below.

Calls for Papers

Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Global Witness of Believers' Churches | The 19th Believers' Church Conference | Shaw University, Raleigh, North Carolina, USA | Submissions due 1 Aug 2021
Indigenous-Mennonite Encoungers in Time and Place | Conrad Grebel University College | Submissions due 1 Sept 2021
The Amish and Their Neighbours: A Multidisciplinary Conference | Young Center for Anabaptist And Pietist Studies | Elizabethtown College | Submissions due 1 Nov 2021
Formation and Witness | Anabaptist Witness | Submissions due 1 Nov 2021
Departing Canada, Encountering Latin America: Reflections on the centenary of Mennonite Emigration from Canada to Mexico and Paraguay | Centre for Transnational Mennonite Studies Conference | University of Winnipeg | Submissions due 1 Dec 2021

Conferences, Lectures, and Events

Reading and Writing in the Church of God in Moravia: Hutterite Book Culture in the 16th and 17th Centuries | Jacob D. Maendel Lectures | 29 May, 4 June, & 5 June 2021
'Believe and Be Baptized': A Global Conversation on Baptism | Mennonite World Conference | 6 & 13 June 2021
Vital Connections: Claiming voice and learning to listen | 9th International Conference on Ageing and Spirituality | Conrad Grebel University College | 8–23 June 2021
Hope, Despair, Lament | Ninth Biennial Graduate Student Conference |Toronto Mennonite Theological Centre | Harrisonburg, Winnipeg, & Southern Ontario | 17–19 June 2021
Called to Face Racial Injustice: Starting Close In | 19th Bridgefolk Conference | 13-14 August 2021
Religion and Emancipation: Two Enounters and a Workshop | Amsterdam Mennonite Seminary and VU Amsterdam | June 2021 & September 2021
Making History: Thirty Years and Counting | Acadia Centre for Baptist and Anabaptist Studies | 20-21 September 2021
MCC at 100: Mennonites, Service, and the Humanitarian Impulse | Mennonite Stuides Conference | The University of Winnipeg | 30 September - 2 October 2021
Rooted and Grounded: A Conference on Land and Christian Discipleship | Anabaptist Mennonite Biblical Seminary | 14-16 October 2021
Women, Liberation, and the Bible | Mennonite Scholars and Friends Forum at the AAR/SBL | San Antonio, Texas | 19 November 2021
Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Global Witness of Believers' Churches | The 19th Believers' Church Conference | Shaw University, Raleigh, North Carolina, USA | 20–22 January 2022
Indigenous-Mennonite Encoungers in Time and Place | Conrad Grebel University College | 13–15 May 2022
The Amish and Their Neighbours: A Multidisciplinary Conference | Young Center for Anabaptist And Pietist Studies | Elizabethtoon College | Elizabethtown, PA, USA | 2-4 June 2022
Mennonite World Conference Assembly | Indonesia | 5–7 July 2022
Departing Canada, Encountering Latin America: Reflections on the centenary of Mennonite Emigration from Canada to Mexico and Paraguay | Centre for Transnational Mennonite Studies Conference | University of Winnipeg | Winnipeg, MB, Canada | 21-22 October 2022

Recurring Lectures and Events

Anabaptist Theology Forum | Anabaptist Mennonite Network
Bechtel Lecture in Anabaptist-Mennonite Studies | Conrad Grebel Univeristy College
Benjamin Eby Lecture | Conrad Grebel Univesity College
Brethren in Christ Study Conferece | Messiah University
C. Henry Smith Peace Lecture | Bluffton University and Goshen College
Jacob D. Maendel Lectures | Hutterian Brethren Book Centre
J.J. Thiessen Lectures | Canadian Mennonite University
John and Margaret Friesen Lectures | Canadian Mennonite University
Goshen College Conference on Religion and Science | Goshen College
Intercollegiate Peace Fellowship
Mennonite Scholars and Friends Forum at the AAR/SBL
Rawlyk Memorial Lecture in Baptist Studies | Acadia Centre for Baptist and Anabaptist Studies
Rodney and Lorna Sawatsky Visiting Scholar | Conrad Grebel University College
S.A Yoder Memorial Lecture Series | Goshen College
Shrag Lecture | Messiah Univeristy
TMTC Biennial Graduate Student Conference |Toronto Mennonite Theological Centre
TMTC Public Lecture | Toronto Mennonite Theological Centre
Yoder Public Affairs Lecture | Goshen College
Zeman Memorial Lecture in Anabpatist Studies | Acadia Centre for Baptist and Anabaptist Studies

Employment Opportunities

Full time professor of Biblicial Studies | Anabaptist Mennonite Biblical Seminary | 1 July 2021 start date

Fellowships, Scholarships, Awards and Grants

Acadia Centre for Baptist and Anabaptist Studies Essay Prize | Acadia Centre for Baptist and Anabaptist Studies
Acadia Centre for Baptist and Anabaptist Travel Grants | Acadia Centre for Baptist and Anabaptist Studies
A. James Reimer Award | Toronto Mennonite Theological Centre
Bridging Gaps Exchange Program | VU Amsterdam and Amsterdam Mennonite Seminary
C. Henry Smith Peace Oratorical Contest | Mennonite Central Committee
Canadian Japanese-Mennonite Scholarship | Mennonite Central Committee
"Company of 1000" Study Reserve Fund | Mennonite Church Canada
J. Winfield Fretz Fellowship in Mennonite Studies | Conrad Grebel University College
Marpeck Fund
Menno Simons Sermon Award | Center for Peace Church Theology at the University of Hamburg
TMTC Fellows Program | Toronto Mennonite Theological Centre
Young Center Fellows Program | Elizabethtown College

Publications

Journals

Anabaptism Today | Anabaptist Mennonite Network
Anabaptist Witness | Anabaptist Mennonite Biblical Seminary
Conrad Grebel Review | Conrad Grebel Univesity College
Direction | Mennonite Brethren higher education institutions in Canada and the US
Mennonite Historian | Mennonite Heritage Archives and the Centre for MB Studies in Canada
Mennonite Quarterly Review | Goshen College, Anabaptist Mennoninte Biblical Seminary, and the Mennonite Historical Society
Mennonite Life | Bethel College
Journal of Mennonite Studies | University of Winnipeg and Canadian Mennonite University
Journal of Mennonite Writing | Center for Mennonite Writing at Goshen College
Korean Anabaptist Journal
Peace Research: The Canadian Journal of Peace and Conflict Studies | Canadian Mennonite University
Preservings | D. F. Plett Historical Foundation
Plough Quarterly | Plough Publishing House / Bruderhof
Reflections | Missionary Church Historical Society
RELEA: Red Latinoamericana de Estudios Anabautistas
Vision: A Journal for Church and Theology | Anabaptist Mennonite Biblical Seminary and Canadian Mennonite Univesity

Book Series

Online Resources

Anabaptist Historians: Bringing the Anabaptist Past into a Digital Century | Menno Simons Historical Library at Eastern Mennonite University and The Center for Anabaptst, Pietist, and Weslyan Studies at Messiah University
Anabaptist Worship Network | Mennonite Church Eastern Canada and Anabaptist Mennonite Biblical Seminary
Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online
Global Anabaptist Wiki | Mennonite Historical Library at Goshen College
CommonWord | Mennonite Church Canada and Canadian Mennonite University
Together in Worship | CommonWord, Anabaptist Worship Network, and Voices Together

Research Centres and Institutes

Acadia Centre for Baptist and Anabaptsit Studies | Acadia Divinity College
Arbeitsstelle Theologie der Friedenskirchen | Universität Hamburg
Canadian School of Peacebuilding | Canadian Mennonite University
Center for Anabaptist Studies | Fresno Pacific University
Center for Faith Formation and Culture | Anabaptist Mennonite Biblical Seminary
Center for Justice and Peacebuilding | Eastern Mennonite University
Center for Mennonite Writing | Goshen College
Center for Mennonite Brethren Studies | Tabor College
Center for Peace Studies and Conflict Resolution | Mennonite Brethren Centenary Bible College
Center for Religion, Peace, and Justice | Doopsgezind Seminarium
Centre for Anabaptist Studies | Bristol Baptist College
Centre for Mennonite Brethren Studies | Canadian Conference of MB Churches
Centre for Resilience | Canadian Mennonite University
Centre for the Study of Religion and Peace | Conrad Grebel University College
Centre for Transnational Mennonite Studies | University of Winnipeg
Centre Mennonite de Paris
Chair in Mennonite Studies | University of Winnipeg
Doopsgezind Seminarium
D. F. Plett Historical Research Foundation
Humanitas Anabaptist-Mennonite Centre | Trinity Western University
Institute for the Study of Global Anabpatism | Goshen College
Institute of Anabaptist Mennonite Studies | Conrad Grebel University College
Institute of Mennonite Studies | Anabaptist Mennonite Biblical Seminary
Institute of Peace and Conflict Studies | Conrad Grebel University College
Kindred Credit Union Centre for Peace Advancement | Conrad Grebel University College
Mennonitische Forschungsstelle | Einrichtung des Mennonitischen Geschichtsvereins e. V. in Deutschland
Menno Simons Historical Library | Eastern Mennonite University
Mennonite Archives of Ontario | Conrad Grebel University College
Mennonite Heritage Archives | Canadian Mennonite University, Mennonite Church Canada, and The Centre for Transnational Mennonite Studies
Peace Studies Centre | Myanmar Institute of Theology
Sider Institute for Anabaptist, Pietist, and Wesleyan Studies | Messiah University
Summer Peacebuilding Institute | Eastern Mennonite University
Toronto Mennonite Theological Centre | Conrad Grebel University College
Young Center for Anabaptist and Pietist Studies | Elizabethtown College
Zehr Institute for Restorative Justice | Center for Justice & Peacebuilding

Contact Us

We are always looking to add information of relevance to the Anabaptist-Mennonite scholarly world around the globe and rely on an ever-expanding network of institutions and individuals to keep us in the loop with what is happening in your neck of the woods. If you have information or events you would like to see on the AMSN website, please please let us know either by sending us an email or clicking the "submit news and events" button below.