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).

Two Conference Updates: Mennonites Writing IV & Jean-Luc Marion

Hi All,

This is just an update on two upcoming speaking engagements in the new year. I’ll also follow up soon with some more book reviews as I get them.

1. The Centre for Advanced Research in European Philosophy is holding a conference on the work of Jean-Luc Marion from March 27th-29th 2015, at which I will present a paper called “Hermeneutics and the Phenomenology of Givenness”. The schedule can be found here.

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2. Fresno Pacific University is holding the seventh Mennonite/s Writing conference in March from the 12th-15th, at which I will be presenting a paper called “Anabaptist Mennonite Literary Hermeneutics”. The schedule can be found here (PDF).

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Thanks for keeping an eye out here!

-Max