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 Lewis Walpole Library 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. Space is limited and advance registration is required.

Details: https://walpole.library.yale.edu/programs/lectures-conferences