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Conferences
and Symposia
The Lewis Walpole Library has sponsored several conferences
in New Haven and in Farmington focused on the eighteenth century.
2008 |
Collections Collaborative: Print Metadata Seminar
January 25, 2008
Farmington
A seminar held as part of the Library's involvement in the Collections Collaborative project to reach agreement upon common or compatible practices for descriptive and imaging metadata and to develop a metadata registry and a metadata application profile for Yale University.
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2005 |
Parliaments, Peoples, and Power (1603-1800)
April 7–9, 2005
New Haven and Farmington
An International Conference exploring the realities and representations of parliaments and analogous institutions in the British Isles, Western Europe, Scandinavia, and North America in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Cosponsored by the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, the Yale Center for British Art, the Lewis Walpole Library, and the Yale Center for Parliamentary History.
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2004 |
Henry Fielding (1707-1754): An International Conference Commemorating the 250th Anniversary of His Death
October 8 and 9, 2004
on the Yale campus at the Yale Center for British Art, 1080 Chapel Street, New Haven.
Sponsored by the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library in collaboration with the Yale Center for British Art and the Lewis Walpole Library
ACRL/RBMS pre-conference events
June 21, 2004
The Library hosted tours and a luncheon as part in the Pre-Conference program of the Rare Books and Manuscripts Section of ACRL in June.
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| 2002 |
Country House Weekend
March 1-3, 2002
Held in Farmington to follow up the 2001 Yale
Conference on Theatricality and Anti-Theatricality.
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| 2001 |
Theatricality and Anti-Theatricality in the
Eighteenth Century.
February 16-18, 2001
A conference sponsored by the Lewis Walpole Library, the Beinecke Rare
Book and Manuscript Library, and the Yale Center for British Art as part
of Yale University’s Tercentennial Celebration.
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| 2000 |
Dryden (1631-1700) : a celebration
An international conference at Yale University
Friday, October 6, 2000
http://www.yale.edu/opa/v29.n4/story13.html
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| 1999 |
Mme de Graffigny & French Epistolary Writers
of the 18th Century
An International Symposium at Yale University, April 2-3, 1999. Sponsored
by the Department of French, the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library,
and the Lewis Walpole Library
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| 1997 |
Horace Walpole (1717-1797) Bicentenary Symposium
Held in conjunction with the exhibition, "The Bewigged Bard:
Horace Walpole's Shakespeare"
October 17-19, 1997
New Haven and Farmington |
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