Lectures & Conferences
Twenty-Ninth Lewis Walpole Library Lecture
Thursday, October 29, 2026
5:30 pm
Whitney Humanities Center, Auditorium L02
320 York Street, New Haven, CT 06511
The Counter-Revolution of 1776 in France
Emma Rothschild
Jeremy and Jane Knowles Professor of History, Director, Center for History and Economics, Harvard University
En medaillon, À la zodiaque, [France? approximately 1776]
Emma Rothschild is Jeremy and Jane Knowles Professor of History at Harvard, affiliated faculty at Harvard Law School, and professeur invitée at the Centre d’Histoire de Sciences Po, Paris. She is the author of An Infinite History: The Story of a Family in France over Three Centuries (2021), The Inner Life of Empires: An Eighteenth-Century History (2011), and Economic Sentiments: Adam Smith, Condorcet and the Enlightenment (2001.)
14-16 October 2026
SYMPOSIUM | HOGARTH: HIS ART, LIFE, AND TIMES
(detail) William Hogarth. A Harlot’s Progress, Plate 4. 1732. The Lewis Walpole Library, Gift of Richard M. Greenberg
Organized by the Lewis Walpole Library in collaboration with the Yale Center for British Art, Yale Library, and the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, this symposium celebrates the generous gift by Professor Paulson (1930-2024) of his papers together with a legacy endowment to establish a fellowship at the Lewis Walpole Library in memory of his son, Andrew Meredith Paulson.
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