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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
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"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
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2008: Fifteenth Lewis Walpole
Library Lecture
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"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
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2007: Fourteenth Lewis Walpole
Library Lecture
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"Observation
in the Enlightenment"
by Lorraine Daston
Max
Planck Institute for the History of Science,
Berlin,
and The University of
Chicago
April 27, 2007
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2006: Thirteenth Lewis Walpole
Library Lecture
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"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
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| 2005: Twelfth Lewis Walpole Library Lecture |
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"Thomas Paine and the Intellectual Underpinnings of
American Democracy"
by Joyce Appleby
Professor Emerita of History, UCLA
April 22, 2005
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| 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
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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
April 8, 2003
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| 2002: Ninth Lewis Walpole Library Lecture |
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"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
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2001: Eighth Lewis Walpole Library Lecture |
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"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
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1999: Lectures |
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"Origins of the Gothic Revival Revisited"
by Michael McCarthy
Professor of the History of Art, University College Dublin
October 20, 1999
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"Some Thoughts on Hogarth's Jew: Issues in
Current Hogarth Scholarship"
by Ronald Paulson
Professor of English, The Johns Hopkins University
October 19, 1999
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| 1999: Seventh Lewis Walpole Library Lecture |
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"Britain and Islam, 1650-1750: Different
Perspectives on Difference"
by Linda Colley
Leverhulme Research Professor of History, London School of Economics
October 15, 1999 |
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| 1998: Sixth Lewis Walpole Library Lecture |
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"Exposures: Sex, Privacy and Sensibility"
by Patricia Meyer Spacks
Edgar F. Shannon Professor of Eighteenth-Century Literature, The University of Virginia
April 9, 1998 |
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| 1997: Fifth Lewis Walpole Library Lecture |
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"Walpole's Hogarth"
by David
Bindman
Professor of the History of Art, University College London
February 5, 1997 |
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| 1995: Fourth Lewis Walpole Library Lecture |
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"Horace Walpole's Gout: The Politics of Physic"
by Roy Porter
Professor, The Wellcome Institute for the History of
Medicine
April 5, 1995 |
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| 1994: Third Lewis Walpole Library Lecture |
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"Tombs That Tell Tales: the Romance Revival
and Modern Nationalism"
by Marilyn Butler
Rector,
Exeter College, Oxford University
March 24, 1994 |
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| 1993: Second Lewis Walpole Library Lecture |
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"Sexualities in Eighteenth-Century England"
by Lawrence Stone
Professor Emeritus, Department of History, Princeton
University
April 15, 1993 |
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| 1992: First Lewis Walpole Library Lecture |
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"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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