Assistant Professor of History; Chair in Mennonite Studies; University of Winnipeg, migration; environment; agriculture
Joined February 2020
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Ben Nobbs-Thiessen retweeted
In Canada this is Mennonite Heritage Week. At CTMS we've been busy researching, writing, teaching, and preparing the next issues of Preservings and the Journal of Mennonite Studies for publication. We've also been getting ready for our fall conference! ctms.uwinnipeg.ca/events/sub…
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My guitar player Grant's two main guitars have just been stolen in Winnipeg. A butterscotch @hahnguitars 228, a blue @albeardsellguitars Swingmaster & a red Kramer Striker. Very recognizable guitars. The Hahn is very worn and the swing master has a don't trip sticker. Please RT
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This coming Tuesday, Aug. 27, historian Shelisa Klassen will give a webinar presentation on the the good, bad, and sometimes violent interactions Mennonites had with their neighbours when they settled in Manitoba 150 years ago. ctms.uwinnipeg.ca/events/men…
Our Fall CTMS conference schedule is live!
The schedule for our fall conference, "Subjects, Settlers, Citizens: The 1870s Mennonites in Historical Context," is now available. Check out the full program and register to attend, in person or virtually. October 4–5, 2024. ctms.uwinnipeg.ca/events/sub…
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Speeds on four Winnipeg streets will be reduced over the next week as part of the seasonal bike route program (formerly the Enhanced Summer Bike Route program). Find out which streets and learn more about other traffic calming coming soon. winnipeg.ca/seasonalbikerout…
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This Wednesday, April 3 from 7 to 9 p.m. in the University Club, Dr. Felipe Hinojosa (Baylor University) will deliver the eighth annual @CTMStudies Lecture. A livestream is also available.
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Ben Nobbs-Thiessen retweeted
Dr. Felipe Hinojosa (Baylor University) will deliver the eighth annual @CTMStudies Lecture on Wednesday, April 3 from 7 to 9 p.m. in the University Club.
A livestream is also available.
REGISTER ➡️ buff.ly/3x1R5XZ
Hi @cityofwinnipeg can you get someone to plow the Assiniboine path (it was still slushy and snowbound at 9:50am)? Today was a good example of the type of snow that quickly melts off major car routes like Portage but is a slippery headache on unplowed bike routes...
Ben Nobbs-Thiessen retweeted
On April 26, Shelisa Klassen, our Plett Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow, will give the 7th annual CTMS Lecture on how local print media in 1870s Manitoba expressed settler anxieties about the identity of the new province. 7 pm at the University of Winnipeg Club.
Yesterday Mennonite Studies students @uwinnipeg traveled to @MHVSteinbach where senior curator Andrea Klassen spoke about material culture, accessions, exhibit design, and how descendants of Mennonite migrations (from 1870s-1990s) relate to their past. @CTMStudies
The History Dept @uwinnipeg is hiring a TT Assistant Professor in Indigenous History. Please share with those who might be interested. northstarats.com/University-…
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For people in the Winnipeg area, Visiting Scholar Nataliya Venger will give a colloquium presentation titled “‘Do the Mennonites Pray to Another God?’: Resentment and Early Nationalism in the Russian Empire” on January 26 at 4 pm ctms.uwinnipeg.ca/events/col…
Today's commute was...icy (!)....it only took me 2.5 years but I finally realized my long-stated goal/threat/boast of skating to work @uwinnipeg
Hi @cityofwinnipeg snow has been pushed on to the sidewalk on Stradbrook in front of Minuk Denturing reducing the width of the sidewalk to barely passable. Can you have someone fix this? Thanks! Rest of the route was in excellent condition.
Hi @cityofwinnipeg friendly request can you give a little scrape to the Norwood Bridge bike route, Assiniboine bike path and Balmoral bike routes? That thin layer of slushy snow is making even slow cycling pretty challenging.
Adventures in biking at Main and Assiniboine, signal turns for bike route across Main but Car1 looking north at traffic oblivious swerves across bike/pedestrian crossing while Car 2 drives through bike lane on a red (circled) in between me and pedestrians. This happens every day
Hi @cityofwinnipeg small request, can you have someone clear the section where the bike path on Norwood bridge meets Lyndale Drive. It's just a sloppy impassable section for about 10 feet.
Hi @winnipeg311 can you have a plow clear Balmoral between Broadway/St. Mary which is an important bike access to @uwinnipeg. Oncoming traffic (4 of 5 cars on my last ride) is driving in the tracks in centre of the road and pushing cyclists onto the soft snow on the side. Thanks!
