Program

HIS ART, LIFE, AND TIMES A Tribute to Ronald Paulson. 14-16 October 2026 Yale Center for British Art This program is made possible through the support of the Lewis Walpole Library and a generous gift of Richard Greenberg in memory of Ronald Paulson

Day 1 - 14 October  

Day 2 - 15 October

Day 3 - 16 October

Details and registration links for Breakout Sessions, Film Screenings, and Gallery Talks forthcoming

Day 1

Wednesday 14 October (Evening)

Yale Center for British Art, 1080 Chapel Street, New Haven, CT 06510

4:30 PM to 4:45 PM

  • Welcome Remarks YCBA and LWL

4:45 to 6:15 PM

  • PANEL 1: Paulson’s Hogarth

Moderator: Jill Campbell, Professor of English, Yale University

Speakers:

Zirwat Chowdhury, Assistant Professor of 18th- and 19th-Century European Art, UCLA

Lessing’s Hogarth, Hogarth’s Paulson

Douglas Fordham, Professor of Art History, University of Virginia

Breaking and Remaking Hogarth’s Bristol Altarpiece

Caroline Patey, Chair Professor of English Literature (Professore Ordinario di Letteratura Inglese), Università degli Studi, Milano

William Hogarth, the Novel Maker

6:15 PM to 6:45 PM

  • Breakout Session (details to be announced)

Day 2

Thursday 15 October (All Day)

Yale Center for British Art, 1080 Chapel Street, New Haven, CT 06510

10:15 AM to 11:45 PM

  • PANEL 2: Drawing

Moderator: Laurel Peterson, Assistant Curator of Prints and Drawings, Yale Center for British Art

Speakers:

Zoë Dostal, Visiting Assistant Professor of Art, Amherst College

Life Models, Hemp Rope, and the Line of Beauty

Stacey Sloboda, Paul H. Tucker Professor of Art History, University of Massachusetts, Boston

Boys Peeping at Nature: Drawing and Modeling at the St. Martin’s Lane Academy

Jennifer Tonkovich, Eugene and Clare Thaw Curator, The Morgan Library

The Mutable Page: Hogarth’s Drawings

12:00 PM to 1:00 PM

  • Breakout Sessions (details to be announced)

2:00 PM to 3:30 PM

  • Breakout Sessions (details to be announced)

3:45 PM to 4:45 PM

  • Breakout Sessions (details to be announced)

5:00 PM to 6:30 PM

Day 3

Friday 16 October (All Day)

Yale Center for British Art, 1080 Chapel Street, New Haven, CT 06510

10:15 AM to 11:45 AM

  • PANEL 3: Patriotism and Empire

Moderator: Tim Barringer, Paul Mellon Professor of the History of Art, Yale University

Speakers:

Holly Shaffer, Associate Professor of Art and Architecture, and Director of Undergraduate Studies, Brown University

The Two Tastes: Food and Art in Hogarth’s Analysis of Beauty

Pierre Von-Ow, Associate Lecturer in Early Modern Art History, University of St. Andrews

A New British Order: Hogarth’s Design for a Domestic Column Capital

Catherine Roach, Associate Professor of Art History, Virginia Commonwealth University

“Purely English”: Hogarth, Nation, and Empire in the Early Nineteenth Century

12:00 PM  to 1:00 PM

  • Breakout Sessions (details to be announced)

2:00 PM to 3:30 PM

  • PANEL 4: Social and Political Critique

Moderator: Miya Tokumitsu, Donald T. Fallati and Ruth E. Pachman Curator of the Davison Art Collection, Wesleyan University

Speakers:

Meredith Gamer, Associate Professor of Art History and Archaeology, Columbia University

Hogarth’s Children

Andrew Rudd, FSA, Director of Studies at Anglo Educational Services in London

Hogarth, Walpole, and London’s Children’s Charities

Phil Withington, Professor of Social and Cultural History, University of Sheffield

Hogarth, Addiction, and Political Economy in Early Modern London

3:30 PM to 3:45 PM

  • Break

3:45 PM to 4:45 PM

  • Breakout Sessions (details to be announced)

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