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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.

2009: Sixteenth Lewis Walpole Library Lecture

2009 lecture poster

"Visualizing Religious Difference: Picart's Religious Ceremonies and Customs of All the Peoples of the World (1723-1737)"

Lynn Hunt
Eugen Weber Professor of History, UCLA

May 8, 2009

 

2008: Fifteenth Lewis Walpole Library Lecture

2008 lecture poster

"Feeling Free in the Enlightenment: Diderot versus Rousseau, or, Philosophy versus Lived Experience"

by Leo Damrosch
the Ernest Bernbaum Professor of Literature at Harvard University

April 18, 2008

2007: Fourteenth Lewis Walpole Library Lecture

2007

"Observation in the Enlightenment"

by Lorraine Daston
Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin, and The University of Chicago

April 27, 2007

 

2006: Thirteenth Lewis Walpole Library Lecture

2006

"Slander: The Art and Politics of Slinging Mud, Paris and London, 1770-1795"

by Robert Darnton
Shelby Cullom Davis '30 Professor of European History, Princeton University

April 7, 2006

 

2005: Twelfth Lewis Walpole Library Lecture
2005 lecture poster - Paine

"Thomas Paine and the Intellectual Underpinnings of American Democracy"

by Joyce Appleby
Professor Emerita of History, UCLA

April 22, 2005

 
2004: Eleventh Lewis Walpole Library Lecture
2004 lecture poster - Pope

"'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

 
2003: Tenth Lewis Walpole Library Lecture
2003 lecture poster - Handel

 

"Mr. Handel Puts on an Opera"

 

by Nicholas McGegan
Music Director, Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra, San Francisco

 

April 8, 2003

   
2002: Ninth Lewis Walpole Library Lecture
2002 lecture poster - love and madness

"Love and Madness in Eighteenth-Century Britain"

 

by John Brewer
John and Marion Sullivan University Professor, The University of Chicago

 

March 1, 2002

Country House weekend held in conjunction with the Lecture
March 1-3, 2002, Farmington

   

2001: Eighth Lewis Walpole Library Lecture

2001 lecture Theatricality poster

 

"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

1999 lecture poster - origins of gothic

 

"Origins of the Gothic Revival Revisited"

 

by Michael McCarthy

Professor of the History of Art, University College Dublin

 

October 20, 1999

   
1999 Some thoughts poster

 

"Some Thoughts on Hogarth's Jew: Issues in Current Hogarth Scholarship"

by Ronald Paulson
Professor of English, The Johns Hopkins University

October 19, 1999

   
1999: Seventh Lewis Walpole Library Lecture
1999 lecture poster - Hogarth

 

"Britain and Islam, 1650-1750: Different Perspectives on Difference"

 

by Linda Colley
Leverhulme Research Professor of History, London School of Economics

 

October 15, 1999

   
1998: Sixth Lewis Walpole Library Lecture
1998 lecture poster - exposures

 

"Exposures: Sex, Privacy and Sensibility"

 

by Patricia Meyer Spacks
Edgar F. Shannon Professor of Eighteenth-Century Literature, The University of Virginia

April 9, 1998

   
1997: Fifth Lewis Walpole Library Lecture
1997 lecture poster - Walpole's Hogarth

 

"Walpole's Hogarth"

 

by David Bindman

Professor of the History of Art, University College London

 

February 5, 1997

   
1995: Fourth Lewis Walpole Library Lecture
1995 lecture poster - gout

 

"Horace Walpole's Gout: The Politics of Physic"

 

by Roy Porter

Professor, The Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine

 

April 5, 1995

   
1994: Third Lewis Walpole Library Lecture
1994 lecture poster - tombs

 

"Tombs That Tell Tales: the Romance Revival and Modern Nationalism"

 

by Marilyn Butler

Rector, Exeter College, Oxford University

 

March 24, 1994

   
1993: Second Lewis Walpole Library Lecture
1993 lecture poster - sexualities

 

"Sexualities in Eighteenth-Century England"

 

by Lawrence Stone

Professor Emeritus, Department of History, Princeton University

 

April 15, 1993

   
1992: First Lewis Walpole Library Lecture
1992 lecture poster - Carlyle

 

"The Scourge of the Eighteenth Century: Thomas Carlyle"

 

by Noel Annan

author of Our Age: English Intellectuals between the World Wars

 

April 8, 1992

 

   
   
   
   
   
   
 
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