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The Lewis Walpole Library Lecture
In recent years the Lewis Walpole Library
Lecture has brought noted scholars in the field of eigteenth-century
studies to New Haven to speak on a topic often, but
not always, directly related to the collection. The annual
Lewis Walpole
Library Lecture is now an established feature of Yale's intellectual
calendar.
| 2004: Eleventh Lewis Walpole Library Lecture |
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"'The Faithless Column and the Crumbling Bust':
Alexander Pope and Sculptural Portraiture" by
Malcolm Baker,
Professorial Research Fellow, Victoria and
Albert Museum, London, and Professor,
Art History and The History of Collecting, University of
Southern California
April 23, 2004, 5:30 p.m., New Haven
Yale Center for British
Art Lecture Hall, reception to follow |
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| 2003: Tenth
Lewis Walpole Library Lecture |
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"Mr. Handel Puts on
an Opera" by Nicholas McGegan,
Music Director, Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra,
San Francisco
Tuesday, April 8, 2003 |
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2002: Ninth Lewis Walpole Library Lecture
"Love and Madness in Eighteenth-Century Britain" by
John Brewer, John and Marion Sullivan University
Professor, The University of Chicago,
Friday, March
1, 2002
Country House weekend held in conjunction with the
Lecture, March 1-3, 2002, Farmington
2001: Eighth Lewis Walpole Library Lecture
"Et in Arcadia ego: The Eighteenth Century
of the 1920s" by
Terry Castle, Walter A. Haas Professor
in the Humanities, Stanford University
February 16,
2001
1999: Lectures
"Origins of the Gothic Revival Revisited" by
Michael McCarthy, Professor of the History of Art,
University College Dublin
Wednesday, October 20,
1999
"Some Thoughts
on Hogarth's Jew: Issues in Current Hogarth Scholarship" by
Ronald Paulson, Professor of English, The Johns
Hopkins University
Tuesday, October
19, 1999
1999: Seventh Lewis Walpole Library Lecture
"Britain and Islam, 1650-1750: Different
Perspectives on Difference" by Linda Colley,
Leverhulme Research Professor of History, London
School of Economics
Friday, October 15, 1999
1998: Sixth Lewis Walpole Library Lecture
"Exposures: Sex, Privacy and Sensibility" by
Patricia Meyer Spacks, Edgar F. Shannon Professor
of Eighteenth-Century Literature, The University
of Virginia
Thursday, April 9, 1998
1997: Fifth Lewis Walpole Library Lecture
"Walpole's Hogarth" by David Bindman, Professor
of the History of Art, University College London
Wednesday, February 5, 1997
1995: Fourth Lewis Walpole Library Lecture
"Horace Walpole's Gout: The Politics of Physic" by
Roy Porter, Professor, The Wellcome Institute for
the History of Medicine
Wednesday, April 5, 1995
1994: Third Lewis Walpole Library Lecture
"Tombs That Tell Tales: the Romance Revival
and Modern Nationalism" by Marilyn Butler,
Rector, Exeter College, Oxford University
Thursday,
March 24, 1994
1993: Second Lewis Walpole Library Lecture
"Sexualities in Eighteenth-Century England" by
Lawrence Stone, Professor Emeritus, Department of
History, Princeton University
Thursday, April 15, 1993
1992: First Lewis Walpole Library Lecture
"The Scourge of the Eighteenth Century: Thomas
Carlyle" by
Noel Annan, author of Our Age: English
Intellectuals between the World Wars
Wednesday, April
8, 1992
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