Mennonites and Anthropology: Ethnography, Religion, and Global Entanglements
The full program for the Mennonites & Anthropology: Ethnography, Religion, and Global Entanglements conference! Join us Oct. 25 & 26…
Preservings 2018 Released
The Plett Foundation is happy to bring you the 2018 issue (#38) of Preservings, released just in time for Christmas last month!…
New Access to Mennonitische Rundschau Supported by Plett Foundation Grant
“Facebook” of a century past: New access to Mennonitische Rundschau Index Vol. 4 The long-awaited volume 4 subject and author…
Foundation Expands Fellowship Program
The Plett Fellowships offered by the Foundation have been expanded to include a Postdoctoral Fellowship. The Postdoctoral Fellowship complements the…
Indexing of “Die Mennonitische Rundschau” supported by the Plett Foundation
The Mennonitishe Rundschau (1878 to 2007) was a newspaper that served the Mennonite community in Canada, the United States, and Russia. For…
New book on Low German Mennonite Migration
Royden Loewen, Chair of Mennonite Studies has written a new book, Village Among Nations, which was launched in Winnipeg on December…
‘At home in this world, or the next’? A Foundation supported research project
One of this year’s recipients of a Plett Foundation grant is Rebecca Plett, a PhD candidate in cultural anthropology at…
Book launch of “The Fehrs” by Arlette Kouwenhoven
Arlette Kouwenhoven’s The Fehrs: Four Centuries of Mennonite Migration will be launched at the Mennonite Heritage Centre on June 6 at 7:30…
Mennonites and Human Rights Conference
to be held at the University of Winnipeg, October 18-20. The Chair in Mennonite Studies is hosting a conference with research…
Horse and Buggy Mennonite Conference-October 21 and 22, 2011
The D.F. Plett Historical Research Foundation and the Chair in Mennonite Studies are co-hosting a conference on the conservative Russian…
Congresswoman shot in Tuscon A Student of Old Colony Mennonites
According to an article in the Mennonite Weekly Review, Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords studied Old Colony Mennonites in Mexico while she…