A collaborative new documentary follows UWinnipeg students and others who participated in a commemorative reenactment to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the Russlaender Mennonite immigration.
Since January of this year, UWinnipeg associate history professor, Dr. Aileen Friesen, and UW alumna, Kate Moulden (BA 24), have conducted more than 50 interviews with children of Mennonite immigrants.
Scholars from across Canada and around the world will gather at The University of Winnipeg this weekend for an academic conference examining a pivotal era in Mennonite history that began 100 years ago.
This centenary conference – Departing Canada, Encountering Latin America: Reflections on the Centenary of Mennonite Emigration from Canada to Mexico and Paraguay – will take place October 21 and 22.
Aileen Friesen, associate professor of History and executive director of the Plett Foundation, is utilizing SSHRC funding to uncover the gendered experience of Mennonite migration to Canada from the Soviet Union.
UWinnipeg's Centre for Transnational Mennonite Studies cracks open KGB files to help find missing Mennonites from the 1930 and 40s.
To celebrate the opening CTMS presents its Inaugural lecture by UWinnipeg’s Plett Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow, Dr. Aileen Friesen on Thursday, May, 5, 2016 at 7:00 pm, room 2M70 with a reception to follow.
