Join the Ohio Wesleyan Department of History for this year's Joseph and Edith Vogel Lecture at 7 p.m. March 28, 2022, via Zoom. This year’s speaker is former Ohio Wesleyan professor of History Ellen Arnold, Ph.D., now an associate professor of Premodern Environmental History at University of Stavanger in Norway.

Her presentation, "James Weber’s OWU Experience, 1868-1871," is based on a series of 50 letters written by James Knox Polk Weber to his parents when he attended Ohio Wesleyan more than 150 years ago.

The online event will begin with a memorial tribute to Ezra Vogel, Ph.D., who grew up in Delaware and endowed the Vogel Lecture in honor of his parents. A retired Harvard University professor and renowned East Asia expert,” Ezra Vogel died in December 2020.