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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 eighteenth-century studies to New Haven to speak on a topic often, but not always, directly related to the collection. The Lewis Walpole Library Lecture is now an established feature of Yale's intellectual calendar.

 

2008: Fifteenth Lewis Walpole Library Lecture

2008

Leo Damrosch, the Ernest Bernbaum Professor of Literature at Harvard University presented the Fifteenth Lewis Walpole Library Lecture, "Feeling Free in the Enlightenment: Diderot versus Rousseau, or, Philosophy versus Lived Experience"
April 18, 2008

 

2007: Fourteenth Lewis Walpole Library Lecture

Lorraine Daston, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin , and The University of Chicago, presented the Fourteenth Lewis Walpole Library Lecture, "Observation in the Enlightenment"
April 27, 2007

 

2006: Thirteenth Lewis Walpole Library Lecture

Robert Darnton, Shelby Cullom Davis '30 Professor of European History, Princeton University, presented the Thirteenth Lewis Walpole Library Lecture, "Slander: The Art and Politics of Slinging Mud, Paris and London, 1770-1795"
April 7, 2006

 

2005: Twelfth Lewis Walpole Library Lecture

2005 lecture poster - Paine

Joyce Appleby, Professor Emerita of History, UCLA, presented the Twelfth Lewis Walpole Library Lecture, "Thomas Paine and the Intellectual Underpinnings of American Democracy."
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
Tuesday, 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,
Friday, 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
Wednesday, 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
Tuesday, 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
Friday, 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
Thursday, 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
Wednesday, 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
Wednesday, 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
Thursday, 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
Thursday, April 15, 1993/td>

 

 

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
Wednesday, April 8, 1992

 

2007: Fourteenth Lewis Walpole Library Lecture

Lorraine Daston, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin, and The University of Chicago, presented the Fourteenth Lewis Walpole Library Lecture, "Observation in the Enlightenment"
April 27, 2007

 

2006: Thirteenth Lewis Walpole Library Lecture

Robert Darnton, Shelby Cullom Davis '30 Professor of European History, Princeton University, presented the Thirteenth Lewis Walpole Library Lecture, "Slander: The Art and Politics of Slinging Mud, Paris and London, 1770-1795"
April 7, 2006

 

2005: Twelfth Lewis Walpole Library Lecture

2005 lecture poster - Paine

Joyce Appleby, Professor Emerita of History, UCLA, presented the Twelfth Lewis Walpole Library Lecture, "Thomas Paine and the Intellectual Underpinnings of American Democracy."
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
Tuesday, 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,
Friday, 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
Wednesday, 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
Tuesday, 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
Friday, 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
Thursday, 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
Wednesday, 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
Wednesday, 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
Thursday, 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
Thursday, April 15, 1993/td>

 

 

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
Wednesday, April 8, 1992

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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