Early Anabaptism in Global Perspective: Past, Present, and Future at 500 Years

Mennonite Life joins the Young Center for Anabaptist and Pietist Studies in presenting Early Anabaptism in Global Perspective: Past, Present, and Future at 500 Years.

This conference marking the 500th anniversary of the birth of the Anabaptist movement will revisit early Anabaptism and give special attention to the global context in which it emerged and spread. Speakers will also consider how Anabaptist history has been received by churches and academics in more recent times and in varying contexts around the world.

With more than three dozen plenary sessions, papers, seminars, and roundtables by presenters from ten countries, the conference will examine such varied themes as migration, diplomacy, the arts, colonialism, peacemaking, and theological identity. Explorations of the connections between Anabaptism and Baptist, Hutterite, Liberation Theology, Quaker, Mennonite, and Radical Pietist traditions are also on the program. Roundtable sessions and seminars include a discussion of approaches to teaching early Anabaptism and a workshop on reading early Anabaptist sources in community. Optional pre- and post-conference field trips will visit area libraries and archives and the 1719 Museum.

The conference opens at 1:00 pm on Tuesday, July 22, and closes at noon on Thursday, July 24.

Optional tours: July 22 from 9 am until 12:30 pm; July 24 from 12:30 until 4:30 pm.

See the detailed schedule for information on presentations and speakers and the optional tours.

Please register for the conference here.

Full Conference Rates
Includes Tuesday dinner, Wednesday breakfast, lunch, and dinner, Thursday breakfast, and all refreshments and receptions.

Daily Rates (if attending for less than the full conference)
Includes meals and refreshments on the day(s) of attendance.