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Narrating Mennonite Canada Colloquium
On the last Friday in February at the TransCanada Institute, U of Guelph, a group of scholars, writers & students met for an interdisciplinary colloquium entitled "Narrating Mennonite Canada: History and/as Literature." Organized by Canada Research Chair Dr. Smaro Kamboureli & SSHRC Doctoral Fellow Rob Zacharias, the colloquium explored themes including Mennonites writing diaspora, writing Mennonite history, and the interrelationship between "fact" and "fiction" in Mennonite literary and historical writing. Highlights included scholarly papers by Dr. Hildi Froese Tiessen (Conrad Grebel College, U of Waterloo) & Dr. Royden Loewen (U of Winnipeg), and a literary reading/reflection by two-time Governor General Literary Award recipient Rudy Wiebe, Canada's preeminent Mennonite writer.
