All events are admission-free, and doors open 30 minutes prior to the beginning of each one. All facilities are accessible without climbing stairs. Audio-description services and interpreters will be provided with 72-hour notice prior to each event. Questions may be sent to ucomm@wittenberg.edu.
2024-2025 Wittenberg Series Events
Opening Convocation
Amy McGuffey, Ph.D.
3 p.m. Friday, August 22, 2024
Pam Evans Smith Arena
Health, Wellness & Athletics Complex (HWA)
- Presentation Title: "Resilience of the Rock"
Amy R. McGuffey, Ph.D., will kick off the 2024-25 Wittenberg Series as the featured speaker for the annual Opening Convocation & Welcome. The recipient of the 2024 Alumni Association鈥檚 Award for Distinguished Teaching, McGuffey is a 1995 graduate of Wittenberg, where she earned her B.A. in elementary education. She then received an M.A. in education from Urbana University and a doctorate in educational leadership from the University of Dayton. Since joining the faculty ranks of Wittenberg in 2014, she has been involved in many initiatives across campus, including First Year Seminar, and is a member of Faculty Executive Board. She teaches a range of courses, from Sociological Perspectives in Education to Teaching Social Studies in Secondary Schools. Her research has appeared in a variety of publications, including the Ohio Association of Secondary School Administrators Update, the NASSP Bulletin, and the Journal of School Public Relations.
Allen J. Koppenhaver Literary Lecture
Susan Burton, Author and Award-winning Podcaster
7 p.m. Monday, October 28, 2024
Bayley Auditorium
Barbara Deer Kuss Science Center
- Presentation Title: 鈥淭he Stories We Tell About Pain鈥�
Susan Burton is the host, writer, reporter, and co-producer of the Peabody Award-winning podcast series The Retrievals, which recounts the pain experienced by dozens of women undergoing fertility treatment at the Yale Fertility Center. Her memoir, Empty (Random House 2020), tells the story of the eating disorders she kept secret for most of her life. The book was selected for Booklist鈥檚 Top 10 Memoirs of 2020, Newsweek鈥檚 20 Must-Read Books of the Summer, and Marie Claire鈥檚 Best Memoirs 2020 list. An editor at This American Life, Burton has produced many episodes including 鈥淪ecrets,鈥� 鈥淭en Sessions,鈥� 鈥淔ive Women,鈥� 鈥淭he Thing I鈥檓 Getting Over,鈥� and 鈥淭ell Me I鈥檓 Fat.鈥� Her writing has appeared in the New York Times Magazine, Slate, The New Yorker, and others, and she is a former editor of 贬补谤辫别谤鈥檚.
Lessons and Carols for Advent & Christmas
7:30 p.m. Friday, December 6, 2024
Pre-service music begins at 7 p.m.
Weaver Chapel
Offering a time of music and reflection as the Advent season unfolds, this service concludes with a candlelit singing of 鈥淪ilent Night.鈥� Wittenberg鈥檚 music ensembles will perform.
More details to follow about future events.
Wittenberg Series Archives
- 2023-24 Wittenberg Series
- 2022-23 Wittenberg Series
- 2020-22 Wittenberg Series Events (limited due to pandemic restrictions)
- 2019-20 Wittenberg Series
- 2018-19 Wittenberg Series
- 2017-18 Wittenberg Series
Click here to see complete history of all Wittenberg Series performers/speakers since the program's inception in 1982.