Readers of this excuse for a blog, you are to the first Theological Studies Graduate Student Colloquium at Conrad Grebel University College. During the Fall and Winter terms we will be hosting monthly presentations of scholarly material, by graduate students and other scholars, followed by questions and discussion. Our first presentation will take place on Thursday, October 9th at 12:00 noon in the Paetkau Seminar room (2201). Zac Klassen will introduce the series, and Max Kennel will present on “Anabaptist Revisions: A Call for a Contemporary Reimagining of the Anabaptist Vision”. Coffee and snacks will be provided. Our second meeting will take place on Friday, October 31st at 12:30 pm in the Paetkau Seminar room (2201). MTS student Isaiah Ritzmann will present on “Tradition as Community Tool: A Review of Alexander Blair’s Christian Ambivalence Towards its Old Testament“ followed by discussion and refreshments. Please contact Zac Klassen (zklassen@gmail.com) or Max Kennel (max.kennel@gmail.com) for further details, or if you are interested in presenting a paper during Fall or Winter term.
Dr. Maxwell Kennel
Senior Research Fellow at the Canadian Institute for Far-Right Studies
Director of Pandora Press and Editor of the Anabaptist and Mennonite Studies Series.
Co-Investigator on the CREATE Project and Affiliate at the Arcand Centre for Health Equity at NOSM University.
Author of Postsecular History (Palgrave, 2022) and Ontologies of Violence (Brill, 2023).
Editor of Astrid von Schlachta’s Anabaptists. Trans. Victor Thiessen (Pandora, 2024), Thomas Kaufman’s The Anabaptists. Trans. Christina Moss (Pandora, 2024), and Hans-Jürgen Goertz’s Conrad Grebel (1498-1526): Critic of Pious Facades. Trans. Christina Moss (Pandora, 2025).
Co-Editor of Messianic Imagination (Cascade, 2025), and (with Berit Jany), Friedrich Dürrenmatt’s The Anabaptists: A Comedy in Two Acts. Trans. Lauren Friesen (Pandora, 2025).
Dr. Maxwell Kennel 