The Mennonite Studies Department at the University of Winnipeg, Canada, will host its annual conference October 28 to 29, 2016. The theme is, “Mennonites, Land and the Environment: A Global History.”
See conference brochure. See website.
The Mennonite Studies Department at the University of Winnipeg, Canada, will host its annual conference October 28 to 29, 2016. The theme is, “Mennonites, Land and the Environment: A Global History.”
The conference examines the relationship of Mennonites to the land in seven different Mennonite farming communities around the world: Neubergthal, Manitoba; Friesland, the Netherlands; Riva Palacios, Bolivia; Kalona, Iowa; Java, Indonesia; Matabo Mission, Zimbabwe; and Apollonovka, Siberia. How has a new agriculture of fossil fuels, herbicides, crop specialization and state intervention impacted old, organic-based Mennonite farm communities around the world?