Friday, February 9 - Saturday, February 10
The Graduate Club, New Haven
As part of the Lewis Walpole Library’s celebration of Horace Walpole’s tercentenary and the 100th anniversary of W.S. Lewis’s Yale class of 1918, the library is working with Steve Pincus, Bradford Durfee Professor of History, Yale University, to organize a two-day conference on Friday and Saturday, February 9 and 10, 2018, to consider how current multi-disciplinary methodologies invite creative research in archival and special collections at the Lewis Walpole Library and beyond. Planned thematic sessions include “What is Empire?,” “Conceptualizing Political Economy,” “Slavery,” “Indigenous Peoples,” “Diplomacy,” and “Material Culture.” This conference is organized in association with the exhibition, Global Encounters and the Archives: Britain’s Empire during the Age of Horace Walpole.
The conference will be held at The Graduate Club, 155 Elm Street, New Haven Connecticut 06511. For directions to the club and parking information, please see their website.
Lecture: Global Encounters and the Archives: Britain’s Empire in the Age of Horace Walpole
Wednesday November 1, 2017
7:00 PM until 9:00 PM
Lewis Walpole Library
Justin Brooks, Doctoral Candidate in History, Yale University, will speak on the the Lewis Walpole Library’s exhibition “Global Encounters and the Archives: Britain’s Empire in the Age of Horace Walpole.” The exhibition, which looks at aspects of the global British Empire in the long eighteenth century, takes full advantage of the diverse range of archival resources held by the Library and which Mr. Brooks co-curated, including manuscripts, printed texts, graphic images, and objects. Interrelated themes include political economy, diplomacy, indigeneity, and slavery. The talk, exhibition, and other related programs celebrate the broad pre-disciplinary collecting activities of Horace Walpole (1717-1797) and W.S. Lewis (1895-1979) and will explore how current multi-disciplinary methodologies invite creative research in the Library’s archival collections. Mr. Brooks’s talk is offered as part of a year’s worth of events celebrating the 300th anniversary of Horace Walpole’s birth.
This Lewis Walpole Library lecture is held in partnership with the Farmington Libraries.
Space is limited. Registration required: http://bit.ly/2wYUAwN .
Lecture: The Many Lives of Horace Walpole
Thursday, October 26, 2017, 5:30 pm
Yale Center for British Art Lecture Hall
1080 Chapel St, New Haven, CT 06510
George E. Haggerty, Distinguished Professor and Chair
Department of English, University of California, Riverside
In his charming biography of Horace Walpole, R.W. Ketton-Cremer makes the point that “one of the difficulties which confront a biographer of Walpole is his remarkable versatility. He was active in many fields—in politics, social life, literature, architecture, antiquarianism, printing, virtú; and it is not easy to include them all in the compass of a single volume.” George Haggerty, who is currently writing a new biography of Horace Walpole, will take up this challenge in his lecture with and through Walpole’s letters. Haggerty asserts that Walpole writes himself into his experience by means of his epistolary imagination.
Professor Haggerty’s talk will be streamed live from the Yale Center for British Art at: https://britishart.yale.edu/multimedia-video/26/5796
Evening Public Talk: “The Land without Music: Satirizing Song in Eighteenth Century England” by Amy Dunagin
Thursday, May 18th, 7pm
The Lewis Walpole Library, 154 Main St. Farmington CT 06032
Evening public talk by Amy Dunagin, Postdoctoral Associate, European Studies Council, Yale University, and Managing Editor, Eighteenth-Century Studies, and curator of the exhibition “The Land without Music: Satirizing Song in Eighteenth-Century England” at the Lewis Walpole Library. The talk is presented in collaboration with the Farmington Libraries.
Talk with Edward Koren
Edward Koren
Cartoonist for The New Yorker magazine
Tuesday, December 13, 2016
Edward Koren’s iconic images record the comedy of manners in society and politics that have captured his attention for decades. In this talk, he will reflect on his career as a New Yorker artist, and on the many and diverse influences that have contributed to the development of his thinking and drawing.
“In my cartoon drawings, I like getting things right… What captures my attention is all the human theater around me. I can never quite believe my luck in stumbling upon riveting minidramas taking place within earshot (and eyeshot), a comedy of manners that seem inexhaustible. And to be always undercover makes my practice of deep noticing more delicious. I can take in all the details as long as I appear inattentive – false moustache and dark glasses in place. All kinds of wonderful moments of comedy happen right under my nose…”
On Cartooning, by Edward Koren
The art of observational satire: a conversation with Rachel Brownstein and Edward Koren
Moderated by Cynthia Roman
Wednesday, December 14, 2016
Room 38-39
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
121 Wall St, New Haven, CT 06511
Edward Koren, a long-time cartoonist for The New Yorker, and Rachel Brownstein, a literary scholar, will reflect on the enduring tradition of social satire.
Public Talk: Eating People
Rachel Brownstein
Professor Emerita, Brooklyn College and The Graduate Center, CUNY
Wednesday, November 16, 2016
Offered in collaboration with the Farmington Libraries.
Past Lewis Walpole Library Lectures
2018: Twenty-third Lewis Walpole Library Lecture
Pride, Prejudice and Portraits: The Rice Portrait of Jane Austen
Claudia L. Johnson, Murray Professor of English Literature, Princeton University
April 4, 2018
2016: Twenty-second Lewis Walpole Library Lecture
Mr. Boswell Goes to Corsica: Charismatic Authority in the Age of Democratic Revolutions
David A. Bell, Sidney and Ruth Lapidus Professor, Department of History, Princeton University
October 6, 2016
2014: Twenty-first Lewis Walpole Library Lecture
Offensive Vulgarity in an Age of Enlightenment
Steve Bell, principal editorial cartoonist for The Guardian
Thursday, October 23, 2014
2013: Twentieth Lewis Walpole Library Lecture
The Ladies Library: Or, Benjamin Franklin’s Sister’s Books
Jill Lepore, David Woods Kemper ‘41 Professor of American History, Harvard University
November 8, 2013
2012: Nineteenth Lewis Walpole Library Lecture
Robert Burns and Scottish Independence
Robert Crawford, Professor of Modern Scottish Literature, University of St. Andrews
September 20, 2012
2011: Eighteenth Lewis Walpole Library Lecture
Family Life Makes Tories of Us All”: Love and Power at Home in Georgian England
Amanda Vickery, Professor of Early Modern History, Queen Mary, University of London
October 21, 2011
2010: Seventeenth Lewis Walpole Library Lecture
Romantic Science
Richard Holmes
Author of The Age of Wonder
October 29, 2010
2009: Sixteenth Lewis Walpole Library Lecture
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
2008: Fifteenth Lewis Walpole Library Lecture
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
2007: Fourteenth Lewis Walpole Library Lecture
Observation in the Enlightenment
by Lorraine Daston
Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin, and The University of Chicago
April 27, 2007
2006: Thirteenth Lewis Walpole Library Lecture
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
2005: Twelfth Lewis Walpole Library Lecture
Thomas Paine and the Intellectual Underpinnings of American Democracy
by Joyce Appleby
Professor Emerita of History, UCLA
April 22, 2005
2004: Eleventh Lewis Walpole Library Lecture
‘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
Mr. Handel Puts on an Opera
by Nicholas McGegan
Music Director, Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra, San Francisco
April 8, 2003
2002: Ninth Lewis Walpole Library Lecture
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
2001: Eighth Lewis Walpole Library Lecture
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
Origins of the Gothic Revival Revisited
by Michael McCarthy
Professor of the History of Art, University College Dublin
October 20, 1999
Some Thoughts on Hogarth’s Jew: Issues in Current Hogarth Scholarship
by Ronald Paulson
Professor of English, The Johns Hopkins University
October 19, 1999
1999: Seventh Lewis Walpole Library Lecture
Britain and Islam, 1650-1750: Different Perspectives on Difference
by Linda Colley
Leverhulme Research Professor of History, London School of Economics
October 15, 1999
1998: Sixth Lewis Walpole Library Lecture
Exposures: Sex, Privacy and Sensibility
by Patricia Meyer Spacks
Edgar F. Shannon Professor of Eighteenth-Century Literature, The University of Virginia
April 9, 1998
1997: Fifth Lewis Walpole Library Lecture
Walpole’s Hogarth
by David Bindman
Professor of the History of Art, University College London
February 5, 1997
1995: Fourth Lewis Walpole Library Lecture
Horace Walpole’s Gout: The Politics of Physic
by Roy Porter
Professor, The Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine
April 5, 1995
1994: Third Lewis Walpole Library Lecture
Tombs That Tell Tales: the Romance Revival and Modern Nationalism
by Marilyn Butler
Rector, Exeter College, Oxford University
March 24, 1994
1993: Second Lewis Walpole Library Lecture
Sexualities in Eighteenth-Century England
by Lawrence Stone
Professor Emeritus, Department of History, Princeton University
April 15, 1993
1992: First Lewis Walpole Library Lecture
The Scourge of the Eighteenth Century: Thomas Carlyle
by Noel Annan
author of Our Age: English Intellectuals between the World Wars
April 8, 1992