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 every quarter. Sign up to the AMSN mailing list at the bottom of this page and contact us if you have information and/or events you would like to include.
Calls for Papers | Conferences, Lectures, and Events | Employment Opportunites | Fellowships, Scholarships, and Awards | Publications | Online Resources | Research Centres | Contact Us | More Information
Calls for Papers
- Indigenous-Mennonite Encoungers in Time and Place | Conrad Grebel University College | Submissions due 28 February 2021
- From the Rising to the Setting Sun: Global Perspectives on Bible and Violence | Centre for the Study of the Bible and Violence | Bristol Baptist College | Submissions due 1 March 2021
- Vital Connections: Claiming voice and learning to listen | 9th International Conference on Ageing and Spirituality | Submission due 15 March 2021
- Religion and Emancipation Workshop | Amsterdam Mennonite Seminary and VU Amsterdam | Submissions due 4 April 2021
- Women, Liberation, and the Bible | Mennonite Scholars and Friends Forum at the AAR/SBL | Submission due 30 April 2021
- Special Issue: Recovering from the Anabaptist Vision: New Essays in Anabaptist Identity and Theological Method | Conrad Grebel Review | Submission due 1 May 2021
- Believer's Church Theologies: Different Cultures, Different Streams | The 19th Believers' Church Conference | Submission due 1 May 2021
Conferences, Lectures, and Events
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Blackness, Whiteness and the Anabpatist 'Imagined Community' in Print and Mission | Bechtel Lecture in Anabaptist-Mennonite Studies | Conrad Grebel Univeristy College | 11 March 2021
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Trauma and the Environment: How Then Shall We Live? | Religion & Science Conference | Goshen College | 12 - 13 March 2021
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Absent Fathers, Invisbile Mothers, and the Irrespressible Dance of Love: A Reading of the Theological Virtues as Epistemological Virtues | TMTC Public Lecture | Toronto Mennonite Theological Centre | 24 March 2021
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Indigenous-Mennonite Encoungers in Time and Place | Conrad Grebel University College | 13 May 2021 & 13–15 May 2022
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Vital Connections: Claiming voice and learning to listen | 9th International Conference on Ageing and Spirituality | Conrad Grebel University College | 8–23 June 2021
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Hope, Despair, Lament | Ninth Biennial Graduate Student Conference |Toronto Mennonite Theological Centre | Harrisonburg, Winnipeg, & Southern Ontario | 17–19 June 2021
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Religion and Emancipation: Two Enounters and a Workshop | Amsterdam Mennonite Seminary and VU Amsterdam | June 2021 & September 2021
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Believer's Church Theologies: Different Cultures, Different Streams | The 19th Believers' Church Conference | Vancouver, BC, Canada | 14–17 October 2021
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Women, Liberation, and the Bible | Mennonite Scholars and Friends Forum at the AAR/SBL | San Antonio, Texas | 19 November 2021
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Mennonite World Conference Assembly | Indonesia | 5–7 July 2022
Recurring Lectures and Events
- 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
- J.J. Thiessen Lectures | Canadian Mennonite University
- John and Margaret Friesen Lectures | Canadian Mennonite University
- 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
- Shrag Lecture | Messiah Univeristy
- TMTC Biennial Graduate Student Conference |Toronto Mennonite Theological Centre
- TMTC Public Lecture | Toronto Mennonite Theological Centre
- 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
- Interim Chaplain | Conrad Grebel University College | 1 August 2021 start date
- Biblical and Theological Studies faculty and Assistant Program Director | Fresno Pacific University | 1 July 2021 start date
Fellowships, Scholarships, and Awards
- 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
- 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
- TMTC Fellows Program | Toronto Mennonite Theological Centre
- Young Center Fellows Program | Elizabethtown College
Publications
Journals
- Anabaptism Today | Anabaptist Mennoite Network
- Anabatptist Witness | Anabaptist Mennonite Biblical Seminary
- Conrad Grebel Review | Conrad Grebel Univesity College
- Direction | Mennonite Bretheren higher education institutions in Canada and the US
- Mennonite Quarterly Review | Goshen College, Anabaptist Mennointe Biblical Seminary, and the Mennonite Historical Society
- Mennonite Life | Bethel College
- Journal of Mennonite Studies | University of Winnipeg & Canadian Mennonite University
- Journal of Mennonite Writting | Centre for Mennonite Writing at Goshen College
- Korean Anabaptist Journal
- Peace Research: The Canadian Journal of Peace and Conflict Studies | Canadian Mennonite University
- 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
Recent Books
- Be it Resolved: Anabaptist & Partner Coalitions Advocate for Indigenous Justice. 196 - 2020 | Edited by Steve Heinrichs & Esther Epp-Tiessen | 2020
- Jesus, Deliver Us: Evil, Exorcism, and Exousiai | Willard M. Swartley | 2019
- Liberating the Politics of Jesus: Renewing Peace Theolgoy through the Wisdome of Women | Edited by Darryl W. Stephens and Elizabeth Soto Albrecht | 2020
- Recovering from the Anabaptist Vision | Edited by Laura Schmidt Roberts, Paul Martens, Myron A. Penner | 2020
- Peaceful at Heart: Anabaptist Reflections on Healthy Masculinity | Edited by Don Neufled and Steve Thomas | 2019
- The Absent Christ: An Anabaptist Theology of the Empty Tomb | Justin Heinzekehr | 2019
- The Lives of Amish Women | Karen Johnson-Weiner |2020
- Voices Together Hymnal | MennoMedia, Mennonite Church Canada, and Mennonite Church USA | 2020
Online Resources
- Anabaptist Historians: Bringing the Anabaptsit 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 | Mennoite 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
- 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
- Doopsgesind 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
- Menno Simons Historical Library | Eastern Mennonite University College
- 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
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 contact us.
Calls for Papers | Conferences, Lectures, and Events | Employment Opportunites | Fellowships, Scholarships, and Awards | Publications | Online Resources | Research Centres | Contact Us | More Information