Family & Sexuality in Mennonite History
An Academic and Community Education Conference
October 12-13, 2007
Great Hall
Conrad Grebel University College
Waterloo, Ontario
Tentative Program and Schedule
Friday, Oct. 12.
- “Sexuality & Family in First Person Sources”
- “Ideals and Realities in Traditionalist (conservative) Groups”
- “Homosexuality: Church Policy and Personal Experience”
- “Marriage Models and Codes of Behaviours”
- Keynote address: “Being Mennonite in the Family”
Saturday, Oct. 13
- “Sexual Beliefs and Practices in the Mennonite Past”
- “Mennonite Cultural Forms, Family Relations, and Social Control”
- “Doing Family History: Authors’ Reflections”
- “Migrating Families: Integration and Transnational Pathways”
- “Violence, Misconduct, and Conflict in Family Relations”
For more information visit: www.grebel.uwaterloo.ca/academic/iams/
or phone Marlene Epp, 519-882-0220, extension 24257
ADMISSION: FREE
SPONSORED BY: Mennonite Historical Society of Canada (Divergent Voices of Mennonites in Canada); Conrad Grebel University College; MCC Canada; Mennonite Historical Society of Ontario.